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
Low Demand for Jobs = Higher Chance for H-1B Applicants
CNNfn.com has an interesting article on the H-1B visas demand for this April’s H-1B quota. The article cites the weak economy, the H-1B restrictions imposed recently on TARP recipients and the bankruptcy of Satyam Computer Services (which filed ~2,000 H-1Bs in 2008) as one of the reasons that the H-1B demand will be weakest in [...]
H-1B Lottery Filing Window Set to Five Business Days
The cap-subject H-1B filing deadline of April 1 is approaching quickly. USCIS has advised that similar to last April’s filing window, this year, in the event that there are more H-1B applications than there are available visas (i.e. there will be a lottery), the filing window would be five (5) days, from Tuesday, April 1 [...]
USCIS Confirms Retention of Priority Date for Subsequent I-140s
We have been receiving calls and emails from employment-based applicants for green card asking us whether they have a second green card process started by a new company. Generally, the inquiries are from EB-3 beneficiaries who are eligible and would like to start an EB-2 application. Most of these inquiries come from individuals from countries [...]
Premium Processing for I-140s Expanded
About 6 months ago, USCIS made premium processing available to certain cases where the I-140 beneficiary is in danger of H-ing out. (Our original stories.) USCIS has just announced that it is expanding the I-140 premium processing program. Currently, only beneficiaries who are in H-1B status at the time of the filing of the I-140 [...]