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 Expands Phone Customer Service to Saturday
Many of our clients and readers who have had to call USCIS, including us in our office, know that sometimes it is difficult to speak to a customer service representative, especially during certain peak hours during the day. Partly as a result of customer feedback, USCIS has announced that its National Customer Service Center (NCSC) is expanding its hours to include Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
With the newly expanded hours, live customer service agents will now be available Monday – Friday between 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. […]
Bill Seeking to Require School Accreditation for F-1 Visa Passes the House
The U.S. House of Representatives passed yesterday (August 1, 2012) by a voice vote a proposed bill which seeks to restrict the ability of certain schools, colleges and universities to sponsor students’ F-1 visas. H.R. 3012 (bill tracker, text of bill) was introduced by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and seeks to amend the F-1 student visa program by restricting access to it by schools which are not accredited.
Details of the Proposed Bill
The bill is fairly simple — it amends the relevant section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by adding a requirement that only institutions which […]
DOL Proposes Revisions to Form 9035 – Labor Condition Application (LCA)
The Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed substantial revisions to Form 9035 (and its instructions), Labor Condition Application, which is used to support a number of employment-based visas, including H-1B, H-1B1 and E-3. The proposed changes to the form are significant in many respects — the government now requires all LCA beneficiaries (up to 10 per form) to be named on the form, together with information about any PERM filings and immigration status. The form also starts collecting additional information about each job site, about the employer’s workforce and with respect to a possible H-1B dependent employer status.
Background […]
EB-5 Processing Statistics for I-526 and I-829 Petitions
USCIS has released an updated set of processing statistics for petitions filed under the fifth employment-based preference category (EB-5) for foreign investors. It is interesting to note that the number of I-526 applications (for initial EB-5 green card) have more than doubled compared to 2010 (4,156 compared to 1,955) while the approval rate has remained fairly steady at around 80%. The rate of I-829 filings (application to remove condition) have dropped off at 546 (compared to 2,345 and 768 for the previous two years). The approval rate for I-829 has remained steady at around 90%.
Detailed EB-2 Processing Statistics
In addition […]