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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

FY2012 H-1B Numbers Update – 5,900 Regular and 4,500 Masters Cap Visas Used (April 8, 2011)

The H-1B season is well underway and USCIS just released the first “official” FY2012 update on the number of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1 for both the Vermont and California Service Centers.  As of April 8, 2011, USCIS has received approximately 5,900 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap.   This count means that as of April 8, there are 59,100 H-1B visas left under this year’s H-1B quota and USCIS will continue to accept petitions subject to the general (regular) cap.

Similarly, as of April 8, there were 4,500 H-1B visas filed subject to the […]

April 9th, 2011|Articles, H-1B, News|

May 2011 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 India Advances; FB1 and FB2B Unchanged; Future Visa Bulletin Predictions

The U.S. State Department just released the May 2011 Visa Bulletin which is the eighth Visa Bulletin for the FY2011 fiscal year.    The major headline in the upcoming month’s bulletin is the forward movement in EB-2 India (after eight months of no movement) and the continued (but slow) slow forward movement in FB2A (after few significant backward movements).

Summary of the May 2011 Visa Bulletin – Employment-Based (EB)

Below is a summary of the May 2011 Visa Bulletin with respect to employment-based petitions:

  • EB-1 remains current across the board.
  • EB-2 ROW (Rest of World), Mexico and Philippines remain […]
April 9th, 2011|Articles, News, Visa Bulletin|

Texas Service Center Premium Processing Unit Sends Old I-140 Receipt and Approval Email Notices (Updated)

It may seem like an April Fools Day joke at first sight, but apparently it is not.  The Texas Service Center has been issuing and emailing premium processing receipt and approval notices for I-140 cases filed as far back as April 2010.

Example of I-140 Email Notice

The emails (delivered on April 1, 2011) look something like this:

Receipt Notices

The Texas Service Center has received the following
I-140 Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker
that had been filed under the Premium Processing Service:

Receipt Number: SRCXXXXXXXX
Date Received: 05/04/2010
Petitioner: PETITIONER, INC.
Priority Date: To Be Determined
Beneficiary: BENEFICIARY NAME

The Form I-797 Receipt Notice will follow in the mail.

[…]

April 1st, 2011|Articles, I-140, News, USCIS|

Update on EB-2 Visa Availability: Low EB-1 Demand to Cause EB-2 India to Advance

A recent update from USCIS and Charles Oppenheim at the Department of State (the person who is responsible for the Visa Bulletin and visa number allocations) should provide some hope to applicants in some categories, but most notably to the EB-2 India category.

Low EB-1 Demand to Cause Visa Number Spillover to EB-2

USCIS has reported that the demand for EB-1 visa numbers has dropped significantly since October 1, 2010.   As a result, the planned visa number demand in this category can be adjusted downwards.  By doing this, the unused EB-1 numbers can be allocated to other categories.  This is Mr. Oppenheim’s […]

March 30th, 2011|Articles, I-140, I-485, News, Visa Bulletin|

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We offer a number of engagement and consultation options. Initial case evaluations and quotes are always free.

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