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
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.
How to Handle I-140 Ability to Pay Cases (and RFEs)?
One of the key aspects of an I-140 immigrant petition is proving the employer’s ability to pay the offered wage not only as of the priority date (for most cases this is the date of filing of the PERM Labor Certification) but also until the beneficiary obtains permanent residence – a period that can span multiple years for some beneficiaries, especially those from India and China. This article seeks to explain how to best document the employer’s ability to pay in an initial I-140 petition filing or in response to a USCIS Request for Evidence (RFE) or Notice of Intent […]
April 2022 Visa Bulletin – Minor Forward Movement in EB-2 India
The U.S. State Department has just released the April 2022 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh 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 Final Action and Dates for Filing dates.