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
DV-2012 Diversity Visa (Green Card) Lottery Opens October 5, 2010
The Department of State will open the DV-2012 Diversity Visa (a.k.a. “green card”) lottery on Thursday, October 5, 2010. The entries for this year’s lottery must be submitted electronically between noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Thursday, October 5, 2010, and noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5), Wednesday, November 3, 2010.
Applicants may access the electronic Diversity Visa entry form (E-DV) at www.dvlottery.state.gov during the registration period. Paper entries will not be accepted. Applicants are strongly encouraged not to wait until the last week of the registration period to enter. […]
FY2011 H-1B Numbers Update – 38,300 Regular and 14,000 Masters Cap Visas Used (September 17, 2010)
USCIS released the weekly FY2011 information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of September 17, 2010, USCIS has received approximately 38,300 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap (an increase of 900 over the past week). Similarly, as of September 17, there were 14,000 H-1B visas filed subject to the U.S. Masters cap which has 20,000 limit (an increase […]
Citizenship and Naturalization Numbers for FY2009
Our office continues to handle an increasing number of naturalization and citizenship applications so it is interesting to share with our clients and readers some recent numbers on the citizenship statistics for Fiscal Year 2009 (FY2009).
During FY2009, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) received 743,715 applications for naturalization (in comparison to the 1,046,539 during FY2008 and 660,477 in FY2007). Some of our readers would conclude that there is a sharp drop in the naturalization applications in FY2009 compared to the fiscal year prior; however, FY2008 was the year when USCIS instituted a substantial Form N-400 fee increase, which prompted […]
ASC Biometrics Notice Codes
Our office often receives inquiries by clients about a piece of information displayed on the ASC Appointment Notices issued for the purpose of capturing biometrics. Our clients are asking us what is the meaning of the “Code” field, found in the top right part of the ASC Appointment Notice.
The “Code” field is intended to indicate the type of biometrics processing to be performed. The possible values are:
- Code 1 – fingerprinting for 10 prints only.
- Code 2 – photo, signature and index finger press-print;
- Code 3 – photo, signature, index finger press-print and fingerprinting for 10 prints.