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
Current PERM Processing Dates/Times (April 30, 2009)
The Department of Labor has provided an update on the current PERM processing dates as of April 30, 2009. They are as follows: No audit: November 2008 (a month ago, DOL was processing PERM applications filed in April 2008, this is a significant positive development); Audit: September 2007 (no change from a month ago); Appeal: June 2007 (no [...]
FY2010 H-1B Numbers Update (May 11, 2009)
USCIS released updated information on the numbers of cap-subject H-1Bs filed since April 1. As of Monday, May 11, USCIS has received approximately 45,000 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap. USCIS will continue to accept petitions subject to the general cap. Additionally, USCIS has received approximately 20,000 petitions for aliens with advanced degrees; however, [...]
H-1B Employer Transfer After I-94 Expiration and “Bridging” of Transfer Petitions
“Bridging” is when successive H-1B portability (transfer) petitions are filed for an alien while the previous H-1B petitions remain pending and while the period on the initial I-94 card has expired. We have a number of clients who are currently “bridging” their H-1B petitions and in light of the increased number of inquiries, it [...]
June 2009 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 India Retrogresses Substantially
The June 2009 Visa Bulletin was released today. Unfortunately, the only change is the EB-2 India category which changed from February 15, 2004 to January 1, 2000. All other categories remain unchanged. Here is a summary of the June 2009 Visa Bulletin: EB-1 remains current across the board. EB-2 remains unchanged for all categories except as noted [...]