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
May 2012 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 India and China Retrogress to August 15, 2007; Possibility for EB-2 India and China to Become “Unavailable” and for EB-2 ROW Cutoff Date
The U.S. State Department has just released the May 2012 Visa Bulletin which is the eighth Visa Bulletin for the FY2012 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s bulletin is the significant retrogression in EB-2 India and China, the continued forward movement in FB-1, the possibility of a cutoff date for EB-2 ROW and the possibility that EB-2 India and China would become unavailable for the rest of the fiscal year.
Summary of the May 2012 Visa Bulletin – Employment-Based (EB)
Below is a summary of the May 2012 Visa Bulletin with respect to employment-based petitions:
- EB-1 remains current across […]
(Unofficial) FY2013 H-1B Numbers Update – Approx. 17,000 Regular and 5,000 Masters Cap Visas Used (April 4, 2012)
The H-1B season is well underway and there are some “unofficial” updates on the FY2013 cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 2 for both the Vermont and California Service Centers. As of April 4, 2012, USCIS has received approximately 17,000 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap. Similarly, as of April 4, there were approximately 5,000 H-1B visas filed subject to the U.S. Masters cap (which has 20,000 limit). This suggests a dramatic (more than double) demand in the rate of H-1B filings compared to last year.
Comparison to the Last H-1B Season (FY2012)
Our office […]
EB-2 India and China Cutoff Dates Moved (“Internally”) Back to August 15, 2007; I-485 Filings Still Possible
We have written extensively over the past few weeks about the upcoming retrogression in the EB-2 India and China categories. So, it should not come as a surprise that the Department of State has confirmed what we have anticipated and expected for a couple of weeks — namely, that the Department of State has “internally” moved back the cutoff dates for EB-2 India and China to August 15, 2007.
Department of State Confirms EB-2 India and China “Internal” Retrogression Even Before the Official May 2012 Visa Bulletin is Released
Mr. Charlie Oppenheim, the Chief of Visa Control at the State Department, […]
US Consular Visa Processing Fees to Change April 13, 2012
Effective April 13, 2012, the Department of State is changing the visa processing fees. Some of the fees will increase, while some will decrease. For example, the fees for most nonimmigrant visa applications and Border Crossing Cards will increase. On the other hand, all immigrant visa processing fees will decrease (some by a substantial amount).
Nonimmigrant Visas — Fees Increase
The Department of State is required to recover, as must as possible, the cost of processing a visa application and a stamp through the collection of application fees. According to the Department of State, for a number of reasons, the […]