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
I-485 Interfiling: How to Transfer the Underlying I-140 Petition for Faster Approval
On January 21, 2022, USCIS announced a revised procedure regarding the process of transferring the underlying basis of a Form I-485 to a different employment-based I-140 preference category (a process often called “interfiling”). If an I-485 applicant has another I-140 petition in a more favorable category with a current priority date under Final Action and if they still have a continuing job offer from that I-140 sponsoring employer then they may be able to ask USCIS to change the basis of their I-485 petition in order to allow faster I-485 adjudication.
February 2022 Visa Bulletin – Gradual Forward Movement in EB-2 India and China
The U.S. State Department has just released the February 2022 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth 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 slight forward movement in EB-2 India and China.
January 2022 Visa Bulletin – Not Much Forward Movement
The U.S. State Department has just released the January 2022 Visa Bulletin which is the fourth 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 slight forward movement in EB-2 India and China.
Which India and China Employment-based Applicants Are Eligible to File I-485 in January?
Stay tuned – we will update once USCIS makes an announcement.
Third H-1B Cap Lottery Completed; Newly Selected Petitions Must Be Filed by February 23rd
USCIS has just completed the third round of the H-1B cap selection lottery and notified the selected applicants. The November 2021 selection round was due to the fact that a (still significant) number of H-1B cap registrations selected under the first and second rounds did not file an H-1B petition before the deadline; as a result, USCIS is allocating the unused numbers randomly among the non-selected cases under the first and second rounds. This is the first time USCIS ever has had to conduct a third lottery in the 2 years of this revised cap selection […]