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
December 2012 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 India Remains Unchanged at September 2004; EB-5 China Cutoff Date Possible
The U.S. State Department has just released the December 2012 Visa Bulletin which is the third Visa Bulletin for the FY2013 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of movement in EB-2 India and the possibility of a cutoff date for EB-5 China being introduced in a few months. Many have been looking forward to this Visa Bulletin in order to gauge the anticipated rate of the forward movement in EB-2 India over the next months; unfortunately, it seems that EB-2 India may face a very […]
Reminder – DV-2014 Green Card Lottery Closes on November 3
We would like to remind our clients and readers that the Department of State DV-2014 Diversity Visa (a.k.a. “green card”) lottery is currently open but is scheduled to close at noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5), on Saturday, November 3, 2012.
If you are planning to submit a DV-2014 entry, please do so well before the deadline because the website may become overloaded as the deadline approaches and some applicants may not be able to submit their entry in a timely manner.
Please see our alert about this year’s DV lottery, the eligibility […]
USCIS Now Stringently Enforcing Filing Deadlines for Student I-765 OPT Applications
In the past, USCIS had been somewhat flexible with student status and filing for employment optional practical training work authorization (OPT). More recently, USCIS has been closing those gaps and enforcing the eligibility requirements and filing deadlines more strictly. With this more stringent and literal implementation of the rules, it is imperative that foreign students, educational institution representatives, and employers of these students be aware of these tighter restrictions.
OPT Eligibility Requirements
Most foreign students are eligible for some form of Optional Practical Training (OPT) after completion of a certain educational degree. There are several types depending on the student’s visa status, […]
Visa Bulletin Predictions and Updates from Charles Oppenheim (October 24, 2012)
There is a more recent version of this article. Please see our most recent report from Mr. Charles Oppenheim. |
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 […]