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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Paper Form I-94W Eliminated for Visa Waiver Travelers
DHS Secretary Napolitano announced earlier this week that as of late this summer, the paper Form I-94W (arrival/departure record) for authorized travelers from nations participating in the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) will be eliminated. Instead, the arrival/departure information will be stored electronically.
After a successful 7-month trial conducted with VWP travelers from New Zealand on Air New Zealand flights from Auckland to Los Angeles International Airport, the use of paper I-94W forms will be eliminated for VWP travelers with an approved Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) arriving in the United States at all airports by the end of […]
DOS Announces Increased Visa Stamp Application Fees
The Department of State (DOS) issued an advance copy of the interim final rule on the Schedule of Fees for Consular Services, Department of State and Overseas Embassies and Consulates. The notice was published today at the Federal Register.
According to the notice, the new rule will become effective on June 4, 2010 (15 days after publication). The increase in fees is mainly due to increase in processing costs for a number of non-immigrant visas processed at the U.S. consulates abroad. For most of these visa types, the current fee is $131.00. As a result, while some categories see a […]
Analysis of “REPAIR” Immigration Reform Proposal
The political climate here in Washington, DC changes very quickly. We wrote recently about some broad conceptual proposals for comprehensive immigration reform, followed by our reports of President Obama’s remarks that he does feel that the time is ripe for immigration reform.
However, some congressmen are pushing an immigration reform proposals forward. A recent proposal for a bill, introduced by Senators Reid, Durbin, Schumer, Leahy, Feinstein, and Menendez aims to put more concrete plan out for discussion, despite what some may consider a poor timing for reform. The Real Enforcement with Practical Answers for Immigration Reform (REPAIR) proposal […]
FY2011 H-1B Numbers Update – 19,000 Regular and 8,100 Masters Cap Visas Used (May 14, 2010)
USCIS released the weekly FY2011 information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of May 14, 2010, USCIS has received approximately 19,000 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap (a weekly increase of 1,000). Similarly, as of May 14, there were 8,100 H-1B visas filed subject to the U.S. Masters cap which has 20,000 limit (a weekly increase of 500).
H-1B Quota Trends
The numbers, as reported over the past few weeks – indicate that after there was a very small weekly decrease in the number of H-1B filings for both the regular and Masters’s caps compared to […]