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
February 2025 Visa Bulletin – No Movement
The U.S. State Department has released the February 2025 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack movement in any of the preference categories with the exception of EB India which advances slightly in the Final Action chart. USCIS will use Final Action Dates for I-485 filings which means that there is a retrogression as to who is eligible to file I-485 during the month of February 2025. […]
USCIS Final Rule: Changes to H-1B Programs Effective January 2025 – Key Updates for Employers & Workers
USCIS has just released the December 18, 2024 final rule “Modernizing H-1B Requirements, Providing Flexibility in the F-1 Program, and Program Improvements Affecting Other Nonimmigrant Workers” which seeks to “modernize” the H-1B program by introducing some improvements to the process and allowing certain flexibilities. While some of the changes are simply codification of existing policies, many of the upcoming changes are very significant for certain H-1B employers and workers. The rule will become effective on January 17, 2025. See below for our analysis and review of the new provisions.
Happy Holidays!
Dear Clients and Readers:
We would like to take a moment to express our gratitude for your support throughout these challenging year. We are happy and privileged to have you as clients and readers and we wish you the happiest of holidays!
We are looking forward to working with you during the new year. Have a healthy, happy and joyous New Year 2025.
From all of us,
The Capitol Immigration Law Group Team
January 2025 Visa Bulletin
The U.S. State Department has released the January 2025 Visa Bulletin which is the fourth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the month’s Visa Bulletin is the minor forward movement in employment final action dates. We expect a trickle of pending I-485 approvals in January but no new employment I-485 filing eligibility in January 2025 compared to December 2024. […]