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
The Visa Interview Waiver Process Explained
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) rules require every nonimmigrant visa applicant between ages of 14 and 79 to apply in person and be interviewed by a consular officer (see 9 FAM 403.5-2 , the “FAM”). But there are certain specific exceptions allowing a waiver of the interview requirement. With the current long interview scheduling wait times at many U.S. consulates, being able to have an interview waived is very valuable.
Four Interview Waiver Authorities
According to the “FAM”, consular officers have four main authorities to waive interviews (note the current as of the date of this article […]
Congratulations on Your Green Card Approval – Next Steps and Action Items
One of the most exiting moments for a green card applicant is receiving the “New Card Produced” status update or the actual I-485 approval notice or green card in the mail. Congratulations! This article contains additional steps and considerations for new green card holders, with focus on employment-based immigrants.
Travel or Employment While Waiting for Green Card Production and Receipt
The green card is produced and mailed shortly after the I-485 application is approved. In most cases this takes a few days, but it may be up to several weeks. Also, the green card is mailed to the address USCIS has […]
FY2023 H-1B Cap Reached Without Subsequent Lottery Rounds and Selections
USCIS announced that as of August 23, 2022 they have reached the H-1B cap limit for fiscal year 2023 (FY 2023). This means that they will not be conducting additional lottery rounds of selection like they have been doing in past years; this also means that all H-1B cap registrants who were not selected under the first round are now considered as “Not-selected.”
Historically High Number of Applicants and First Round Selections Means No Additional Lottery Rounds
For FY2023 USCIS received 483,927 H-1B registrations and initially selected 127,600 registrations. USCIS had projected that this number of selections will likely be sufficient […]
June 2022 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 India Final Action Advances By One Year
The U.S. State Department has just released the June 2022 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of movement across most categories with only notable forward movement in EB-2 India Final Action dates. The significant forward movement in EB-2 India Final Action makes many EB-3 downgrade applicants eligible to “interfile” and link their pending I-485 to their “current priority date” EB-2 I-140 petition.