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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June 2010 Visa Bulletin – More of the Same: Gradual Forward Movement; No Change for EB-2 India
The June 2010 Visa Bulletin was released earlier today by the State Department. The ninth visa bulletin for the fiscal year 2010 brings gradual forward across most employment-based categories except EB-2 India (no change this month, for the third month in a row).
The State Department added another country to the list of oversubscribed countries – Dominican Republic. This means that for all family and employment-based categories, there is now a category for the Dominican Republic, in addition to China (mainland-born), India, Mexico and the Philippines.
Summary of the June 2010 Visa Bulletin
Below is a summary of the […]
Current PERM Processing Dates/Times (as of April 30, 2010)
The Department of Labor (“DOL”) has provided an update on the current PERM processing dates as of April 30, 2010. They are as follows:
- Regular processing: July 2009. DOL is processing PERM applications with priority dates in July of 2009. This suggests that there is very slight forward movement for regular PERM processing. Accordingly, regular PERM processing times should be approximately nine (9) months.
- Audited applications: April 2008. The processing time has not changed over the past few months. Accordingly, audited PERM processing times remain at approximately 24 months.
- Appealed applications: November 2007. There is no movement this month in this category over […]
Report on Unauthorized Aliens
The Congressional Research Service (“CRS”) has released two recent reports which seek to analyze the extent of undocumented aliens in the U.S. and on the permanent residency (“green card”) programs. In a series of articles, we will comment on the CRS reports with this article focusing on the unauthorized aliens in the U.S.. Both reports are helpful in providing some current information on the state of the U.S. immigration system and on the conflicting priorities which are likely to be part of the new comprehensive immigration reform, if and when it happens.
CRS Report on Unauthorized Aliens
The CRS report on […]
FY2011 H-1B Numbers Update – 16,500 Regular and 6,900 Masters Cap Visas Used (April 27, 2010)
USCIS released the weekly FY2011 information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of April 27, 2010, USCIS has received approximately 16,500 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap (a weekly increase of 475). Similarly, as of April 27, there were 6,900 H-1B visas filed subject to the U.S. Masters cap which has 20,000 limit (a weekly increase of only 160).
H-1B Quota Trends
The numbers, as reported over the past few weeks – indicate that after there was a very small weekly increase in the number of H-1B filings for both the regular and Masters’s caps. As […]