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 Issues “Clarifications” for Entrepreneur Immigrants: Self-sponsored H-1B and EB-2 NIW May be Possible, EB-5 Streamlined
USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas just announced a number of initiatives intended to boost the ability of immigrant entrepreneurs to obtain immigrant benefits for themselves, as part of the Obama administration’s goal to boost hiring and jobs. Director Mayorkas has announced a number of initiatives and “clarifications” of existing temporary and permanent work visas which should make it easier for entrepreneurs to remain in the U.S.
The Problem Immigrant Entrepreneurs Face
A number of foreign national entrepreneurs face significant difficulties in obtaining permission to work and engage in the kind of entrepreneurship and job creation the economy needs. Currently, the […]
University of Northern Virginia (UNVA) Raided by Federal Agents – F-1 Students in Jeopardy
We have many confirmed reports that yesterday, July 28, 2011, the University of Northern Virginia’s (UNVA) campus in Annandale was raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agents, seeking and seizing documentation relating to UNVA’s issuance of F-1 foreign student visas and UNVA’s compliance in the F-1 visa program.
According to reports, federal agents seized significant amount of boxes with paper, hard drives from administrative computers and even waste baskets. ICE confirmed the UNVA raid in a statement, “Today, officials from ICE’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) served UNVA with a Notice of […]
Ombudsman Recommends EAD Processing Changes
The USCIS Ombudsman office has released a report and a recommendation to USCIS regarding changing policies with respect to I-765 Application for Employment Authorization Document (EAD) cases.
The Problem
Many employers and individuals who rely on EAD cards for employment find it frustrating that there are no reliable processing times for the EAD cards. For most employment with EAD cards, employment is authorized only when the employee has a valid EAD card. In other words, if an EAD card expires and a renewal is not filed on time (with or without fault of the employee) or if the EAD application takes […]
Diversity Lottery (DV-2012) Status Check Website Now Open
The Department of State has enabled the Status Check website which allows participants in the “green card lottery” to check whether their entry has been selected. At the same time, we wish to note that the Department of State does not notify winners by email so any email notifying of a winning green card lottery entry and asking for payments is likely fraudulent.
DV-2012 Lottery Glitches
Many of our readers are aware of the glitches and the controversy surrounding this year’s DV lottery. In May, the Department of State issued a statement that they are voiding all DV-2012 […]