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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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 […]
May 2010 Visa Bulletin – Gradual Forward Movement
The May 2010 Visa Bulletin was just released by the State Department. The eighth 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 second month in a row). A notable movement can be seen in the EB-3 India category where the priority date moved forward by three weeks.
Here is a summary of the May 2010 Visa Bulletin:
- EB-1 remains current across the board.
- EB-2 ROW remains current, EB-2 China moves forward by one (1) month to September 22, 2005, and EB-2 India remains unchanged at February 1, […]
FY2011 H-1B Numbers Update – 13,500 Regular and 5,600 Masters Cap Visas Used (April 8, 2010)
The H-1B season is well underway. Yesterday we reported on the Vermont Service Center’s H-1B FY2011 numbers as of April 5.
Today, USCIS released the first “official” FY2011 information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1 for both the Vermont and California Service Centers. As of April 8, 2010, USCIS has received approximately 13,500 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap. This count means that as of April 8, there are 51,500 H-1B visas left under this year’s H-1B quota and USCIS will continue to accept petitions subject to the general (regular) cap.
Similarly, […]
FY2011 H-1B Numbers Update – Vermont Service Center (April 5, 2010)
The Vermont Service Center (VSC) of USCIS has released the first “semi-official” Fiscal Year 2011 H-1B numbers. As of close of business on Monday, April 5th, VSC has received a total of 9,525 cap-subject H-1B petitions. Of those, 6,791 were “regular H-1B cap” and 2,734 were “master’s cap” petitions.
Note that this information is for the Vermont Service Center. The California Service Center, the second service center processing cap-subject H-1B petitions has not announced any numbers yet.
H-1B Quota Trends
Throughout every H-1B cap filing season, we provide timely updates on the H-1B numbers and we draw predictions and conclusions based on […]