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 – 23,500 Regular and 10,000 Masters Cap Visas Used (Jun 25, 2010)
USCIS released the weekly FY2011 information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of June 25, 2010, USCIS has received approximately 23,500 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap (an increase of only 600 over the week). Similarly, as of June 25, there were 10,000 H-1B visas filed subject to the U.S. Masters cap which has 20,000 limit (an increase of only 300 over the week).
H-1B Quota Trends
The numbers, as reported over the past few weeks – indicate that there was a very small weekly […]
FY2011 H-1B Numbers Update – 22,900 Regular and 9,700 Masters Cap Visas Used (June 18, 2010)
USCIS released the weekly FY2011 information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of June 18, 2010, USCIS has received approximately 22,900 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap (an increase of only 700 over the week). Similarly, as of June 18, there were 9,700 H-1B visas filed subject to the U.S. Masters cap which has 20,000 limit (an increase of only 300 over the week).
H-1B Quota Trends
The numbers, as reported over the past few weeks – indicate that there was a very small weekly decrease in the number of […]
H-1B Statistics for Fiscal Year 2009
Each year, the Department of Homeland Security is required by law to provide to Congress a report on the characteristics of the H-1B specialty occupation workers. The report for fiscal year 2009 (FY2009) which covers October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2009 was released recently.
The report is interesting because it covers partially the period when the economic crisis began. Also, there are some interesting numbers.
Number of H-1B Petitions. The number of H-1B petitions filed decreased 15 percent from 288,764 in FY2008 to 246,647 in FY2009. This number includes all H-1B filings — new employment, amendment and transfers. […]
Guide to Infopass
About InfoPass
In addition to being able to obtain basic case status information or obtain services related to immigration through the USCIS customer service phone line, InfoPass is a free service which allows scheduling an appointment with a USCIS immigration officer by using the Internet. InfoPass is helpful for resolving immigration issues that are best handled by a trained USCIS immigration officer or where certain information or documents need to be presented for review or processing.
Scheduling an InfoPass Appointment
InfoPass is free – it costs nothing to schedule an appointment via the USCIS website at http://infopass.uscis.gov/. When scheduling an appointment, the […]