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
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: [...]
Department of Labor Upgrades to PERM System Postponed
We have mentioned previously in some of our articles the planned replacement of the current PERM and LCA filing systems. Although the replacement of these two systems does not necessarily affect employees and employers as much as it affects immigration attorneys (as immigration attorneys prepare these filings most often), it is helpful to monitor the [...]
More Clarifications on H-1B for TARP Companies
USCIS has released a memorandum, dated March 20, 2009, which provides additional clarifications about H-1B sponsorship by companies which are recipients of TARP funds. We have written extensively about these restrictions earlier this year but there were still questions outstanding. This USCIS guidance should provide final clarify on the subject. The restrictions apply to any Labor [...]
DOJ Releases FOIA Guidelines Favoring Disclosure and Transparency
The Department of Justice has released a new set of Freedom of Information Act (”FOIA”) guidelines that direct all executive branch departments (DHS and USCIS including) to apply a presumption of openness when administering FOIA. The new FOIA guidelines address both application of the presumption of disclosure and the effective administration of the FOIA across the [...]