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
Current PERM Processing Dates/Times (as of August 31, 2010)
The Department of Labor (“DOL”) has provided an update on the current PERM processing dates as of August 31, 2010. Most notable is the decreased processing time for regular PERM applications — down to 4-5 months now. The processing times are as follows:
- Regular processing: May 2010. DOL is processing PERM applications with priority dates in May 2010. This suggests that there is notable forward movement for regular PERM processing. Accordingly, regular PERM processing times should be approximately 4-5 months.
- Audited applications: August 2008. DOL is processing PERM audits which […]
FY2011 H-1B Numbers Update – 39,600 Regular and 14,400 Masters Cap Visas Used (September 24, 2010)
USCIS released the weekly FY2011 information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of September 24, 2010, USCIS has received approximately 39,600 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap (an increase of 1,300 over the past week). Similarly, as of September 24, there were 14,400 H-1B visas filed subject to the U.S. Masters cap which has 20,000 […]
Increase in USCIS Filing Fees Goes Into Effect on November 23, 2010
We wrote earlier in the summer about USCIS’ plans and proposed rule to increase certain filing fees. The final rule was published a few days ago in the Federal Register and the new increased filing fees are set to go into effect on November 23, 2010.
Increases (and a few decreases) in USCIS Filing Fees
A full schedule of the new fees is set forth in page 4 the final rule PDF document or in this table. Among the most notable increases are:
- Form I-90 (replacement of green card) filing fee increases from $290 to $365;
- Form I-129 (used for […]
Visa Bulletin Predictions and Updates from Charles Oppenheim
» Update 10/27/2011: See the more recent October 26, 2011 predictions by Charles Oppenheim.
Yesterday our office attended a American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) discussion session here in Washington, DC with Charles Oppenheim. Mr. Oppenheim is the Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division at the U.S. Department of State. For many, he is simply known as the person responsible for the monthly and annual visa number allocations for family- and employment-based green cards. He is also the person who prepares and publishes the monthly visa bulletin which is highly anticipated every month.
We are asked on […]