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
Very Short and Busy H-1B Cap Filing Season Expected: April 1st to April 7th (Five Business Days); H-1B Lottery Likely; Last Call for H-1B Cap Filings
As we are going into the peak of the H-1B cap season, our office receives many inquiries about the duration of the H-1B filing season this year or, in other words, when will the H-1B cap be reached? So far we have been able to compare demand with prior H-1B filing seasons and we knew that this would be a busy and very short H-1B filing season. According to our sources (which includes clients, peer law firms and government agencies), we expect that the H-1B cap be reached in the first five […]
April 2014 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 and EB-3 India Unchanged; EB-3 ROW, China and Mexico Advance Again; No Movement in FB-2A
The U.S. State Department has just released the April 2014 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2014 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the expected lack of movement in EB-2 India, the continued forward movement in EB-3 ROW, China and Mexico, and the fact that FB-2A remains unchanged with a (relatively) recent cutoff date.
Summary of the April 2014 Visa Bulletin – Employment-Based (EB)
Below is a summary of the April 2014 Visa Bulletin […]
PERM Statistics from the Department of Labor (FY2014 Q1)
The Department of Labor has provided some updates for the first quarter of the Fiscal Year 2014 (October 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013) on their processing of PERM cases and we are happy to share them with our clients and readers. Please note that this period reflects the period of the partial government shutdown where DOL’s operations were suspended for 16 days.
DOL Processing Statistics (First Quarter, 2014 Fiscal Year)
PERM
According to the report, during the quarter, there were 17,623 cases received (slight 3% increase from the same period […]
Tips for Managing Your Immigration Function In-House
The process of hiring foreign workers is complicated and time-consuming thus many employers find it necessary to have a dedicated staff with expertise in making strategic decisions regarding hiring foreign nationals. The immigration function is typically housed in various departments at different organizations but most commonly within the HR department. With proper planning and follow up between the immigration attorney and the in-house HR department acting as a team, the company can achieve its goal of delivering consistent, predictable and expeditious immigration support for transferring and hiring of foreign national employees.
Here are a few tips for effective management of your […]