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
AAO Processing Times (March 1, 2013)
Our office has established a reputation as one of the leading practices for handling appeals with the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) and we often receive inquiries not only about the procedural aspects of an AAO appeal but also about the current processing times for AAO cases. The AAO processing times are published monthly, at the beginning of the […]
The Economic Impact of a Startup Visa
With the immigration reform on the national agenda in Washington, the idea of an entrepreneur’s or startup visa that grants high-skilled immigrants the right to stay if they start job-generating businesses is finally gaining traction.
The need for action is indisputable. High-skilled immigrants have been the lifeblood of entrepreneurial companies that have transformed entire industries and created tremendous wealth and valuable jobs during the process. Think, for example, of Google’s Russian-born co-founder Sergey Brin, or Andrew S. Grove of Hungary, who helped found Intel. There are many strong pieces of evidence in favor of more highly-educated immigrants and the key […]
Visa Bulletin Predictions and Updates from Charles Oppenheim (February 2013)
| There is a more recent version of this article. Please see our most recent report from Mr. Charles Oppenheim. |
In a recent conversation with the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) of which our office is a member, Mr. Oppenheim, the Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division at the U.S. Department of State, has provided some updates and thoughts on the visa numbers and the Visa Bulletin. For many, he is simply known […]
PERM Statistics from the Department of Labor
The Department of Labor has provided some updates for the first quarter of the Fiscal Year 2013 (October 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012) on their processing of PERM cases and we are happy to share them with our clients and readers.
DOL Processing Statistics (First Quarter, 2013 Fiscal Year)
PERM
According to the report, during the quarter, there were 16,724 cases received (slight decrease from previous quarters), 12,123 certified (notable increase from prior quarters), 1,532 denied (another notable decrease) and 680 withdrawn. Since the net amount of applications filed exceeded the number of […]