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.
Our Mission | Our Pledge | Our Fees | Consultation Options | Practices | Profiles | Testimonials
News and Recent Articles
USCIS Increases Filing Fees Starting April 1, 2024
The Department of Homeland Security has just released the final rule that significantly changes the USCIS fee schedule, including adding new fees, establishing multiple fees for nonimmigrant worker petitions and increasing the premium processing time limit. The rule and the new fees will become effective on April 1, 2024.
The highlights of the final rule are: significant filing fee increase for I-485 applicants and especially the additional fee for EAD/AP applications; higher and additional fees for I-129 and I-140 petitions; premium processing will take 15 calendar (and not business) days; and the H-1B cap registration fee will increase […]
How to File an H-1B Cap Petition When the Current Degree is Still Underway?
As the H-1B cap filing season is well underway and as the first filing day of March 1st is approaching fast, a common question by H-1B employers or H-1B candidates is whether an H-1B cap petition can (or should) be filed when the foreign national employee is still completing their degree program. This is very common for foreign students who are graduating in the spring (normally May) but have an employer and are willing to apply for an H-1B under the H-1B “cap” lottery which opens on March 1st.
There is good news and a number of options to make […]
February 2024 Visa Bulletin – No Notable Employment-based Category Movement
The U.S. State Department has released the February 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of notable movement among most employment-based categories with continued outlook for very slow (if any) forward movement in the coming months. […]
What To Do If My I-485 Green Card is Approved (in Error) When My Priority Date is Not Current?
One of the happiest moments for an I-485 Adjustment of Status applicant is the day their employment-based I-485 is approved and their green card is ordered for production in mailing. However, sometimes the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) approve I-485 applications in error, most commonly when the priority date is not current, and this creates major issues for the applicant. […]