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
Cap-subject H-1B Filing Window Open
The filing window for Fiscal Year 2010 (starting October 1, 2009) cap-subject H-1B petitions opened today. All of the cap-subject H-1B filings filed by our firm were successfully delivered at their respective USCIS service centers. Our first impression was that FedEx’s service was very reliable and all H-1B filings were delivered early in the morning and much earlier than FedEx had committed.
As a reminder, the FY 2010 H-1B filing window will remain open until April 7th, when USCIS will evaluate whether the H-1B cap has been reached. If the cap is reached as of close of business on April 7, […]
Annual Statistics on Green Cards
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics has released its annual U.S. Permanent Residents: 2008 report. The report provides a summary of the approvals of the various types of legal permanent resident (LPR) petitions. According to the report, in 2008, a total of 1,107,126 persons became LPRs. Of these, 58% already lived in [...]
Information About the (Possible) H-1B Lottery
Many of our clients have asked us whether there will be a lottery during this year’s H-1B filing season and if there will be one, how the lottery would work. Amid difficult economic times and increasing jobless rate, it is expected that the H-1B applications this year will be less than they were in April [...]
Current PERM Processing Dates/Times
The Department of Labor has provided an update on the current PERM processing dates. Unfortunately, delays in PERM processing still remain (we wrote about these in the past: 1 | 2 | 3). During the Spring 2009 AILA conference, DOL has provided some updates on the current PERM processing dates. They are as follows: No audit: [...]