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
Immigration Live Chat Returns September 15, 2011 at 9 pm eastern
After a summer break, the immigration live chat returns next Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 9 pm eastern time. Please join us on Thursday to ask questions or discuss recent developments relating to immigration.
Thursday’s chat will be of general nature, meaning that we will be able to have a discussion on a number of immigration topics. You can visit the chat page and request that a reminder email be sent to you before the event. We are looking forward to chatting with you next Thursday at 9 pm!
Foreign F-1 Students and Program Statistics
As the new school year is underway at many colleges and universities across the U.S., it is interesting to share some statistics and profiles relating to the F-1 foreign student visa program. The data has been released from the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) as of June 30, 2011. As of June 30, 2011, there were 10,364 SEVIS-approved schools and 784,481 active F-1 students.
Schools
Approximately 35% of all of the 10,364 SEVIS-approved schools were located within California, New York, Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania. Only eight schools have more than 5,000 active students, and out of the 10,364 SEVIS-approved […]
FY2012 H-1B Numbers Update – 29,000 Regular and 15,800 Masters Cap Visas Used (August 26, 2011)
USCIS just released the information on the numbers of cap-subject FY2012 H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of August 26, 2011, USCIS has received approximately 22,700 H-1B petitions counting […]
EB-1 Processing Statistics
USCIS has provided some interesting statistics relating to the processing of Form I-140 petitions for classification of foreign nationals under the employment-based first (EB-1) category. The statistics reflect the number of receipts, approvals, denials and RFEs issued during a fiscal year and are helpful in understanding general EB-1 adjudication trends.
The EB-1 Statistics
Texas Service Center is More Popular. The Texas Service Center is clearly the more popular service center, judging by the number of filings. It received between two and three times the amount of EB-1 applications filed with the Nebraska Service Center. For example, the Texas Service […]