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
Reminder: USCIS Increases Filing Fees on Nov. 23
We wrote extensively in the past for the planned and the announced USCIS fee increase which is set to take effect on November 23rd for all applications filed or postmarked on or beyond this date. For some filings, the fee increase is very minor (and for some there is even a fee decrease!). However, due to the substantial fee increase in some case categories, we wanted to provide a reminder of the new fees and provide an opportunity to our clients and readers to prepare and file their cases before the new fees go into effect.
Increases (and a few […]
New U.S. Congress’ Outlook on Skilled Immigration Reform
In the last hours before the mid-term elections in the United States, it is possible to draw on the conclusions of the political experts that the Republicans are likely to seize control of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress.
How is this related to immigration? Our office has been consistently asked to provide thoughts on the political mood here in Washington for an immigration reform. We have written in the past about certain proposals which, as of today, remain just that – proposals. Over the last few months the political climate in Washington, DC has not permitted the Obama […]
FY2011 H-1B Numbers Update – 44,300 Regular and 16,200 Masters Cap Visas Used (October 22, 2010)
USCIS released the weekly FY2011 information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of October 22, 2010, USCIS has received approximately 44,300 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap (an increase of 1,500 over the past week). Similarly, as of October 22, there were 16,200 H-1B […]
E-Verify Nonconfirmations Issued for Some H-1B Portability Employees
Our office has received confirmation from AILA and from E-Verify that in certain cases, E-Verify would not verify employment authorization for an employee who is working for an employer under H-1B portability and where the employee previously held H-1B status but has since held an intervening status.
For example, an employee holds H-1B status but decides to switch to H-4 or F-1. Then, while holding H-4 or F-1 status, for example, the foreign national is sponsored by a new employer for an H-1B change of status.
Previously, E-Verify has issued employment authorization confirmation under the H-1B portability provisions for […]