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
FY2011 H-1B Work Visa Quota Reached — Alternatives to H-1B
Many of our readers are aware that as of January 26, 2011, USCIS has received a sufficient number of H-1B cap-subject petitions to fill the annual H-1B quota. All cap-subject new H-1B petitions received by USCIS on or after January 27 will be rejected. Throughout the entire H-1B cap season, our office was providing weekly updates to our readers and clients on the status of the H-1B cap and our predictions (based on analyzing the H-1B demand over time) that the H-1B cap would be reached by late January 2011 turned out to be very accurate.
Comparison of 2009 and 2010 […]
FY2011 H-1B Numbers: Last Week – 62,800 Regular Cap Visas Used (2,200 left), Masters Cap Reached (January 21, 2011)
USCIS released the weekly FY2011 information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of January 21, 2011, USCIS has received approximately 62,800 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 […]
Employment-based I-485 Adjustment of Status Inventory
USCIS has released a schedule of the inventory of pending employment-based Form I-485, Application to Adjust Status. The statistics are very recent – as of January 5, 2011 – and are very helpful to understanding the relative queue positions for employment-based adjustment of status applicants.
How Can I Determine My Place in the AOS Queue?
An AOS application’s preference category, priority date, and country of origin determine its place in line for a visa. The earlier your priority date is, the closer you are to the front of the line. The report displays the […]
GAO Report on the H-1B Program
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has published a January 2011 report on the H-1B program. The GAO has produced a a comprehensive, 118-page, report which is intended to provide guidance to Congress with respect to amending or tweaking parts of the H-1B program.
The conclusion of the report is that certain reforms are needed for the H-1B program in order to minimize the risks and costs of the current program. The main conclusions of the report are as follows.
Most interviewed companies said the H-1B cap and program created costs, but were not factors in their decisions to move R&D overseas. […]