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
March 2015 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 India Advances Significantly by Sixteen Months; EB-3 Advances But More Slowly
The U.S. State Department has just released the March 2015 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the FY2015 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the significant (16-week) forward movement in EB-2 India and the continued forward movement in the EB-3 preference category (even though some slowdown is noticeable).
Summary of the March 2015 Visa Bulletin – Employment-Based (EB)
Below is a summary of the March 2015 Visa Bulletin with respect […]
Client Success Story: How Premium Processing of an H-1B Petition Helped Us Reverse USCIS Error and Save Our Client Time and Money
One of the main areas of expertise of our firm is handling H-1B petitions for a number of organizations around the United States. Our readers are aware that the H-1B petition allows the election of a premium processing service which, for an additional government filing fee of $1,410 (was $1,225), guarantees that the government will provide a response on the petition within 15 calendar days. Often we are asked by our clients to advise whether premium processing must be chosen or the regular process (which can vary between 2-5 months) is sufficient.
In many cases this determination is easy – premium […]
The OPT Cap-Gap Rule: Extension of Post-Completion OPT and F-1 Status for Eligible Students Applying for Cap H-1B
Spring and early summer are generally busy period for recent foreign college graduates as far as employment immigration is concerned. On one hand, foreign college graduates are either applying for their initial term OPT, their 17-month STEM extensions (if they qualify) or their H-1B work visas under the H-1B cap.
Our office fields many questions from prospective or recent college graduates with respect to their OPT and H-1B options. In this article we will focus on a number of questions relating to H-1B and the “cap-gap” provision allowing students with expiring OPT work […]
PERM, H-1B and Prevailing Wage Case Processing Statistics from the Department of Labor (FY2015 Q1)
The Department of Labor has provided some updates for the first quarter of the Fiscal Year 2015 (October 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014) on their processing of PERM, H-1B LCA and prevailing wage determination cases and we are happy to share them with our clients and readers.
DOL Processing Statistics (First Quarter, 2015 Fiscal Year)
PERM
According to the PERM case report, during the quarter, there were 23,133 new cases received (an increase of 7% from the prior quarter and a […]