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
H-1B Cap for Fiscal Year 2013 Opens on April 1, 2012
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is set to begin accepting H-1B visa applications pursuant to its Fiscal Year 2013 (FY2013) quota. The first day on which USCIS will accept new, cap-subject H-1B petitions, is Monday, April 2, 2012.
About the H-1B Program and the Annual Cap
The H-1B visa category was created in 1990 through the Nationality and Immigration Act of 1990 (INA). Upon the creation of the H-1B visa type, INA imposed a numerical limitation (“cap”) on the number of H-1Bs […]
2012 Elections – Foreigners, the U.S. Political Process and Permitted Activities
We are in the peak of the Republican Party primary season and we are very close to have the general Presidential election campaign under way. Some of the candidates have expressed opinions on immigration, in connection with the campaign, or previously, and it is natural for some foreign citizens, both living in the U.S. and abroad, to be interested in contributing money and/or services to a candidate’s campaign. However, there are strict rules that govern what a foreign citizen can do during an election campaign.
Our office receives an increasing number of inquiries about […]
H-1B Beneficiary Attestation Introduced by US Consulate in Hyderabad
Among increased scrutiny and often long waiting period to obtain an H-1B (and sometimes even H-4 for their dependents) visa stamp, a number of US-based IT consulting employees are understandably nervous about traveling abroad and attending the H-1B visa stamp interview.
Our office handles a substantial number of such H-1B petitions and H-1B visa stamp applications and while we can confirm that a well-prepared H-1B stamping application has a very good chance of success, nonetheless, the scrutiny and level of review/delay has increased.
US Consulate in Hyderabad, India Introduces Attestation Document for H-1B Workers
We have learned that the US Consulate in Hyderabad […]
Admission of Mexican TN Workers
Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), certain Canadian and Mexican professionals are allowed to enter the U.S. under the TN nonimmigrant classification to engage in certain TN-eligible occupations. We wrote recently about Admission of TN Canadian Workers in the U.S. This article is the second of the series and pertains to requirements and procedures for admission of Mexican TN workers in the U.S.
TN Admission Requirements
It is important to note that requirements for admission of Canadian and Mexican TN workers vary. While a Canadian citizen TN worker may apply for TN classification at […]