Immigration Law Professionals
The Capitol Immigration Law Group PLLC is a boutique law firm based in Washington, DC specializing exclusively in U.S. immigration and nationality law. We serve corporate and individual clients throughout the U.S. and internationally. We are proud to be able to offer practical, prompt and professional immigration and employment compliance legal advice to our clients.
Because of our focus on business immigration law, we are able to handle competently all of our individual and corporate clients’ needs in this area. Our ability to provide quality and practical legal advice lies not only in our devotion and competency in immigration law, but also in our efforts to understand our clients’ business and to act as immigration-related business advisors.
We take great pride in the quality of our work, in our professionalism and in our expertise. We provide regular client updates on important developments in immigration and compliance law and are often invited speakers to relevant business community and other labor and immigration events.
We offer free and confidential initial evaluations and we offer competitive flat fee rates for our services. Our goal is to provide stability to our clients’ immigration and compliance needs by ensuring a combination of high level of service and predictable and transparent billing arrangements.
Our typical clients are small and mid-size companies doing business in a variety of sectors, non-profit organizations, universities and foreign investors. We consider our size an asset allowing us to provide loyal, intimate and personal legal services. In addition to corporate clients, we also represent foreign nationals from over 40 countries on individual employment-related immigration matters.
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News and Recent Articles
USCIS Extends EAD Auto-Extension to 540 Days: What You Need to Know
USCIS has just released a new new temporary final rule (link to rule) effective as of April 8, 2024 pursuant to which the EAD auto-extension period is increased (again) from up to 180 days to up to 540 days from the expiration date stated on their EADs. This increase will be available to eligible renewal applicants with pending Forms I-765 as of April 8, 2024 based on EAD renewal applications filed on or after October 27, 2023 through September 30, 2025. […]
Green Card Holder and “I-327 Advised” Passport Notation – What To Do?
Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs) who travel frequently outside of the U.S. and spend extended periods of time at a time (during a single trip or through pattern of shorter but frequent trips abroad) are often questioned at the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) U.S. port of entry about their residence and intention to remain a U.S. permanent resident. What happens at the CBP port of entry has major implications on the ability to retain one’s green card and continue to travel freely outside of the United States as a green card holder. […]
April 2024 Visa Bulletin – (Finally) Notable Forward Movement in Employment-based Categories
The U.S. State Department has released the April 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is positive forward movement: notable forward movement in employment Final Action dates which should encourage I-485 approvals; in addition to using the Final Action dates for determining I-485 filings. […]
April 1, 2024 H-1B Filing Fee Increase Explanation and Breakdown
Many of our clients and readers are aware that the Department of Homeland Security is significantly increasing the USCIS filing fees starting April 1, 2024. We published a detailed alert for all of the fees (see details); however, for the benefit of our H-1B employer clients and readers, we also provide a detailed explanation and breakdown of the H-1B petition and accompanying H-4 filing fees since the new fee rule has created number of categories and fees depending on the type of employer. […]