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 2012 Opens on April 1, 2011
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is set to begin accepting H-1B visa applications pursuant to its Fiscal Year 2012 (FY2012) quota. The first day on which USCIS will accept new, cap-subject H-1B petitions, is April 1, 2011.
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 that could be issued in each fiscal […]
USCIS Begins Validation Instrument for Business Enterprises (VIBE) Program Testing
In late January 2011, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that they would begin testing their new Validation Instrument for Business Enterprises (VIBE) tool.
About VIBE
VIBE is a tool designed to enhance USCIS’s adjudications of certain employment-based immigrant and non-immigrant petitions such as I-140 and I-129. VIBE uses commercially available data to validate basic information about companies or organizations petitioning to employ alien workers.
The need for VIBE (or a similar tool) is apparent. Currently, when adjudicating employment-based petitions, USCIS primarily relies on paper documentation supplied by the petitioning company or organization to establish the petitioner’s eligibility for the requested classification. […]
Announcing: Immigration Live Chat Starting March 3, 2011
Do you need to have a brief immigration question answered? Are you confused by thousands of confusing (and conflicting) Internet forum and blog postings on a specific immigration subject? Do you want to chat with an immigration attorney about specific immigration regulations or general immigration policy?
Immigration Live Chat Launches on March 3, 2011 at 9:00 pm EST
By popular demand by our clients and readers, we are launching a weekly immigration live chat. The chat is initially scheduled to last 30 minutes and the inaugural Immigration Live Chat is scheduled for March 3, 2011 at 9:00 pm eastern time.
Passport Validity and Entry into U.S.: Six-Month Club List Updated
About the Six-Month Club
Under U.S. law, every passenger who wishes to be admitted into the U.S. must have a valid passport while they are in the U.S. Furthermore, passengers must not only have a valid passport for the time they wish to be in the U.S., but also for an additional six months on top of the requested period of stay. For example, a B-2 visitor who wishes to stay for one month in the U.S. must show a passport with a validity of at least seven months.
Certain countries are granted an exception from this rule. The countries […]