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
What Is Unlawful Presence, When Does it Start, and What are Its Consequences?
Unlawful presence is defined in Section 212(a)(9)(B)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to mean that an alien is deemed to be unlawfully present in the U.S. if the alien is (1) present after the expiration of the period of stay authorized by the Secretary of Homeland Security or (2) present without being admitted or paroled. […]
October 2023 Government Shutdown and Immigration: (How) Will It Affect Me?
Many of our clients and readers have been anxiously awaiting news from Washington, DC regarding the funding of the federal government and the threat of shutdown and how it would impact immigration processing. We are providing an overview of what would happen should or when the federal government closes. The biggest impact for employment-immigration matters is likely to be a possible disruption in DOL services via FLAG (prevailing wages, PERM, LCAs).
Please check back at this page as we will provide updates as the situation unfolds and as agencies provide more details on disruptions on their operations.
Update (10/1/2023): […]
October 2023 Visa Bulletin – First Visa Bulletin for Fiscal Year Brings Limited Cutoff Date Recovery; Grim News for EB India
The U.S. State Department has released the October 2023 Visa Bulletin which is the first Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the fact that despite wide expectations for significant forward advancement among many employment-based categories, the forward movement is somewhat limited and, in fact, some categories have moved back. EB-2/EB-3 India Filing Dates may not advance meaningfully for “several fiscal years.” USCIS will use the Dates for Filing for October 2023.
Do I Have to File H-1B Amendment When Changing (Remote) Worksite Locations?
With the recent increase of remote or hybrid work arrangements, and the return to office to third-party client sites, we would like to provide a reminder of the relevant H-1B rules for compliance when changing (or having already changed) worksite locations.
Pursuant to the July 21, 2015 Final Policy Memorandum (see our analysis), an H-1B amendment (and not only an LCA) is required any time there is a change in the worksite location. This applies to end client placement situations where there is a change in client and worksite. This rule also applies to remote/home office work when the […]