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 Processing Times Reports – How to Interpret and Are They Reliable?
Anyone who has ever filed a petition of some sort with USCIS has wondered, “How long would I have to wait to get a response from USCIS on my application?” Chances are that such an applicant has used the online status check and has also checked the “normal” processing times for the type of a case they have had filed. Many of our clients and readers are well aware of these two resources and we encourage following the information […]
Infosys In $34 Million Settlement for U.S. Immigration Violations
The large Indian technology company Infosys has agreed to pay $34 million in a civil settlement after federal prosecutors in Texas alleged it had committed “systemic visa fraud and abuse” when bringing temporary workers to the U.S. on H-1B and B-1 visas. This kind of settlement is the largest ever in a visa case and while the details are scarce at this point, it shows that the U.S. government is starting to crack down on large scale abuse of some of the most common visa programs.
The Allegations and the Settlement
After an investigation of more than two years, prosecutors […]
Visa Bulletin Predictions and Updates from Charles Oppenheim – Major Retrogression in EB-2 India (October 23, 2013)
Our office just came back from a discussion session here in Washington, DC with Charles Oppenheim. Mr. Oppenheim is the Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division at the U.S. Department of State. For many, he is simply known as the person responsible for the monthly and annual visa number allocations for family- and employment-based green cards. He is also the person who prepares and publishes the monthly visa bulletin which is highly anticipated every month. Our access and proximity to […]
E-Verify System Available Again – Important Post-Shutdown Notes and Guidance
As an E-Verify designated agent, the Capitol Immigration Law Group handles the E-Verify processing for many employers and we would like to pass on some important post-government shutdown E-Verify information to our clients and to all companies who are working with E-Verify. Most importantly, USCIS has confirmed that the E-Verify system is now back online and operational. As a reminder, even though USCIS was largely not affected by the shutdown, the E-Verify system had to be shut down on October 1 as part of the partial government shutdown. But as the government is not open again, E-Verify is now back […]