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 Numbers Update – 51,200 Regular and 18,700 Masters Cap Visas Used (December 3, 2010)
USCIS released the weekly FY2011 information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of December 3, 2010, USCIS has received approximately 51,200 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap (an increase of 800 over the last Thanksgiving week). […]
USCIS Revamps Fee Waiver Application Process and Criteria
Along with the USCIS filing fee increase which went into effect on November 23, 2010, USCIS has revamped the guidelines, criteria and application process for filing fee waivers. While granting a waiver is still in USCIS’s sole discretion, the process and qualifications are now more transparent.
Which Forms are Eligible for a Fee Waiver?
A fee waiver may be requested based on an inability to pay for the following:
- General Fee Waivers: Forms I-90, I-191, I-751, I-765, I-817, I-821, I-881, N-300, N-336, N-400, N-470, N-565, N-600, N-600K; and
- Humanitarian Fee Waivers: any fees associated with the filing of […]
New USCIS Filing Fees Are Now In Effect
On November 23, 2010, the pre-announced increase in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) filing fees went into effect. All applications and petitions filed must now include the new and correct filing fee, or the filings will be rejected.
We have written in the past about the need of this fee increase and our office handled a surge of applications before the fee increase date to accommodate filings under the old fee structure which, for some filings, was significantly lower.
Schedule of USCIS Filing Fees
As part of the new fee structure, USCIS has prepared a helpful (and neatly organized)
FY2011 H-1B Numbers Update – 50,400 Regular and 18,400 Masters Cap Visas Used (November 26, 2010)
USCIS released the weekly FY2011 information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of November 26, 2010, USCIS has received approximately 50,400 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap (an increase of 2,600 over the past two weeks). […]