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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FY2011 H-1B Numbers Update – 29,700 Regular and 12,300 Masters Cap Visas Used (August 13, 2010)
USCIS released the weekly FY2011 information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of August 13, 2010, USCIS has received approximately 29,700 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap (an increase of 1,200 over the past week). Similarly, as of August 13, there were 12,300 H-1B visas filed subject to the U.S. Masters cap which has 20,000 limit (an increase of only 400 over the past week).
H-1B Quota Trends
The numbers, as reported over the past few weeks – confirm the trend that there […]
FY2011 H-1B Numbers Update – 28,500 Regular and 11,900 Masters Cap Visas Used (August 6, 2010)
USCIS released the weekly FY2011 information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of August 6, 2010, USCIS has received approximately 28,500 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap (an increase of only 3,200 over the past three weeks). Similarly, as of August 6, there were 11,900 H-1B visas filed subject to the U.S. Masters cap which has 20,000 limit (an increase of only 900 over the past three weeks).
H-1B Quota Trends
The numbers, as reported over the past few weeks – indicate that there was a very small weekly increase […]
September 2010 Visa Bulletin – Last Bulletin for the Fiscal Year: EB-2 and EB-3 Forward Movement
The September 2010 Visa Bulletin was just released by the State Department. The last visa bulletin for the fiscal year 2010 brings some forward movement across all categories, with the exception of EB-3 India.
Summary of the September 2010 Visa Bulletin – Employment-Based (EB)
Below is a summary of the September 2010 Visa Bulletin with respect to employment-based petitions:
- EB-1 remains current across the board.
- EB-2 ROW (Rest of World) remains current, EB-2 China moves forward by slightly over two (2) months to May 8, 2006, EB-2 India also moves forward by two (2) months from March 1, 2006 to May 8, […]
AILA Sues USCIS Under FOIA For Release of H-1B Policy Documents
On Tuesday, July 20th, AILA filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) seeking the release of records concerning agency policies and procedures for the H-1B visa program. AILA had attempted to obtain these documents under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request which had been denied in full by USCIS.
This lawsuit focuses on the government’s H-1B visa review and processing procedures. Since 2008, USCIS has implemented new, more stringent procedures for review and processing and has dramatically increased the frequency of unannounced worksite inspections – expected to reach 25,000 visits […]