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
AAO Processing Times Report (April 1, 2010)
Our office handles a fair amount of appeals with the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) and we often receive inquiries not only about about the procedural aspects of an AAO appeal but also about the current processing times for AAO cases.
About the AAO
The AAO is an appeals office which handles appeals of certain decisions made by USCIS field offices and regional procssing centers. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires that all AAO decisions be made available to the public. As a result, AAO decisions are accessible in reading rooms at USCIS headquarters here in Washington, DC and at field […]
FY2011 H-1B Numbers Update – 13,600 Regular and 5,800 Masters Cap Visas Used (April 15, 2010)
H-1B Quota Trends
The numbers, as reported over the past two weeks – as of April 8th and as of April 15th, indicate that there was
Video on Naturalization Interview and Test
USCIS has released a 16-minute video on the naturalization process including the eligibility requirements, application process, preliminary steps, interview, English tests and U.S. history and government test (civics). The video also includes two simulated interviews.
USCIS Naturalization Interview and Test Video
This video should be very helpful to naturalization applicants to become familiar with the interview and test process and to get a better sense of what they should expect.
Updates from Department of Labor
On March 25, 2010, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) held a stakeholders telephone conference to discuss DOL operations generally, and address PERM, iCERT prevailing wage and other specific areas. We are happy to share some interesting pieces of information from DOL.
PERM Processing. With respect to PERM processing, DOL has made efforts to decrease its PERM backlogs and try to reduce processing times to 8-9 months. DOL is temporarily assigning PERM applications to adjudicators in Washington, DC, Chicago and to additional staff in Atlanta. As a result, significant PERM processing time improvements are expected. Our office has received recent […]