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 Proposes Major Changes to the EB-5 Investor Program
Last week, in a press release, USCIS announced a number of significant enhancements to the EB-5 Immigrant Investor program. Note that these are proposed changes which are expected to be published on June 17th for public comment and possible implementation at a later date.
About the EB-5 Program
In 1990, the U.S. Congress created the fifth employment-based preference category (EB-5) for qualified foreign entrepreneurs seeking to invest in a business that will benefit the U.S. economy and create or save at least 10 full-time jobs. The basic amount required to invest is $1 million, although […]
FY2012 H-1B Numbers Update – 12,300 Regular and 8,500 Masters Cap Visas Used (May 20, 2011)
USCIS released the weekly information on the numbers of cap-subject FY2012 H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of May 20, 2011, USCIS has received approximately 12,300 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 […]
FY2012 H-1B Numbers Update – 11,200 Regular and 7,900 Masters Cap Visas Used (May 13, 2011)
USCIS released the weekly information on the numbers of cap-subject FY2012 H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of May 13, 2011, USCIS has received approximately 11,200 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap (an […]
Expanded List of STEM-Designated Degree Programs
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced that they have expanded the list of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) degree programs. The expanded list includes fields such as Neuroscience, Medical Informatics, Pharmaceutics and Drug Design, Mathematics and Computer Science. See the updated list of all STEM degree programs.
New STEM-Designated Programs
The new STEM-designated programs come as a direct result of the current administration’s efforts to address shortages in certain high-tech sectors of the U.S. economy. A number of agricultural degree programs have been added to the list (CIP codes 01.XXXX), in addition to Neuroscience (26.1501), certain Physical Sciences […]