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
Increased Rate of ETA 9089 PERM Labor Certification Denials – Fact or Fiction?
One of our major practices is the processing of employment-based permanent residency applications, most of which require an ETA 9089 PERM labor certification. As a result, we handle a number of PERM labor certifications filings, appeals and other related matters. Our office has been receiving an increasing number of inquiries about possible increase in PERM denials and/or audits.
Observations from Our Practice
We take special measures to ensure that each PERM application we file is prepared extremely carefully and that any potential PERM audit or denial “red flags” have been addressed. These include carefully checking the recruitment periods and deadlines, prevailing wage […]
Updates from BALCA regarding PERM Appeals
What is BALCA?
The Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA) is an administrative body which reviews mainly denials of PERM labor certification cases but it also handles a number of Department of Labor review cases. With respect to PERM denials, BALCA is the appellate body which reviews appeals for PERM denials.
BALCA currently has five administrative judges but there are plans in 2011 to increase the number of administrative law judges who will help handle the increasing volume of PERM denial appeals.
BALCA Caseload and Processing Times
Caseload Statistics
BALCA has provided some useful statistics about their current and historic (over the […]
FY2011 H-1B Numbers Update – 47,800 Regular and 17,400 Masters Cap Visas Used (November 12, 2010)
USCIS released the weekly FY2011 information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of November 12, 2010, USCIS has received approximately 47,800 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap (an increase of 1,000 over the past week). Similarly, as […]
December 2010 Visa Bulletin – Minor Forward Movement in EB, No Movement for EB India, Notable Forward Movement in FB2A
The U.S. State Department just released the December 2010 Visa Bulletin which is the third Visa Bulletin for the FY2011 fiscal year. As anticipated and as we wrote recently, following our meeting with Charles Oppenheim, there is not much movement across the employment-based categories. EB India, for example, does not see any movement this month. Also, some family-based categories (FB2A) have notable forward movement.
Summary of the December 2010 Visa Bulletin – Employment-Based (EB)
Below is a summary of the December 2010 Visa Bulletin with respect to employment-based petitions:
- EB-1 remains current across the board.
- EB-2 ROW (Rest of […]