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
H-4 Spouse EAD Lawsuit Update: H-4 EAD Program Still on Track
Our office has been receiving a number of inquiries about a lawsuit challenging the H-4 Spouse EAD program as it is about to become effective on May 26th. We have been monitoring this lawsuit and related developments very closely as our office is helping many H-4 Spouse EAD applicants and as of the time of this article, we believe that the H-4 EAD program will come into effect as planned on May 26th.
The Lawsuit
The lawsuit was filed last week by a group of U.S. high tech workers and seeks to block the H-4 Spouse EAD program. The main […]
This Year’s H-1B Cap Has Been Reached – What Are the Alternative Visa Options?
Many of our readers are aware that as of April 7, 2015, USCIS had received a sufficient number of H-1B cap-subject petitions to fill the annual H-1B quota. This year’s number of filings (233,000) is at an all-time high, meaning that about 1 in 3 H-1B cap applications will be selected for review. As USCIS is starting to issue receipt notices for the H-1B cap cases which are being selected for processing (we even are starting to see H-1B cap premium processing approvals), we wanted to provide an overview of the alternative visa […]
H-4 Spouse EAD – Four Major Outstanding Questions for USCIS
As our office is gearing up for May 26, 2015 when the first H-4 Spouse EAD applications under the new rule can be filed, we are still looking forward to clarifications and updates from USCIS on a number of important topics. Here are four major issues which affect a number of H-4 EAD applicants and which issues are still outstanding as of today, about a month before the H-4 Spouse EAD applications can be filed.
When Would the Final Form I-765 (and Accompanying Instructions) be Released?
While USCIS has published the approved draft revision of Form I-765, they have not […]
H-1B Amendment Required When Changing Jobsites – Regulatory Updates and New Compliance Guidelines
A recent Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) decision which highlighted the requirement for an H-1B amendment any time there is a change in the job site requiring a new Labor Condition Application (LCA) has created a lot of conversation in some H-1B circles and our office has been handling many inquiries, concerns and reactions to the requirements imposed by the AAO decision. This article and the resources our office will be providing over the next weeks are aimed at clarifying the H-1B amendment requirements […]