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
Federal Lawsuit Challenges the January 2010 Neufeld Memo on Employer-Employee Relationship
We have written extensively in the past regarding the January 8, 2010 Neufeld Memo which introduced guidance requiring H-1B applications to show proof of employer-employee relationship between the H-1B petitioner and beneficiary. The Neufeld Memo has affected mostly staffing and consulting companies where the H-1B beneficiaries are employed at third-party worksites.
USCIS Sued to Prevent Enforcement of the Neufeld Memo Guidelines
In a five-count complaint filed by a coalition of staffing companies and representative trade associations, the USCIS is asked to stop temporarily and permanently from applying the Neufeld Memo in H-1B adjudications. The case is Broadgate v. USCIS […]
FY2011 H-1B Numbers Update – 22,200 Regular and 9,400 Masters Cap Visas Used (June 11, 2010)
USCIS released the weekly FY2011 information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of June 11, 2010, USCIS has received approximately 22,200 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap (an increase of only 1,400 over a two-week period). Similarly, as of June 11, there were 9,400 H-1B visas filed subject to the U.S. Masters cap which has 20,000 limit (an increase of only 700 over a two-week period).
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 filings for both […]
July 2010 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 India Jumps Ahead by Ten Months; Gradual Movement in EB-3
The July 2010 Visa Bulletin was released earlier this afternoon by the State Department. The tenth visa bulletin for the fiscal year 2010 brings some substantial forward movement in the EB-2 India category which had not moved for the past few months. Also, there is some gradual forward across all EB-3 employment-based categories.
Summary of the July 2010 Visa Bulletin
Below is a summary of the July 2010 Visa Bulletin with respect to employment-based petitions:
- EB-1 remains current across the board.
- EB-2 ROW remains current, EB-2 China remains unchanged at November 22, 2005, and, most notably, EB-2 India moves forward by ten […]
USCIS to Launch a Redesigned E-Verify Site
USCIS has unveiled a substantial redesign of the E-Verify system website. The changes are both in terms of design and functionality. The new E-Verify site will go live on June 13th, and USCIS has advised us that all user accounts will remain valid and active.
Graphic Design
E-Verify’s design has seem to be somewhat of an afterthought for the initial designers. Not anymore. E-Verify’s design now features cleaner page elements, better visual clues for case status and other important pieces of information.
Functionality
Some interesting functionality has been added. Among the most interesting, and most disappointing, is the case alerts feature. E-Verity can […]