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
AAO Processing Times Report
USCIS has released the average processing times for cases pending at the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) as of January 8, 2009. Among the most notable AAO processing times: H-1B appeal takes 14 months; I-140 EB1 (Extrordinary Ability) takes 18 months while EB1(B) and (C) are current; I-140 EB2 (Advanced Degree) takes 20 months while EB2 (all others) are current; [...]
Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) Now Mandatory
Today, January 12, 2009, the Electronic System for Travel Authorization becomes mandatory for all Visa Waiver Program (VWP) travelers. We wrote earlier about the mandatory cutoff of January 12, 2009. Effective today, VWP travelers coming into the U.S. may be turned away if they have not registered at least 72 hours before their travel to the [...]
E-Verify Employers Reach 100,000
The E-Verify program now has 100,000 employer participants, USCIS announced yesterday. In a press release celebrating the milestone, USCIS also updated some interesting statistics about E-Verify. Employers have run more than 2 million queries through E-Verify since October 2008, and employers have been able to automatically verify more than 18 million workers’ eligibility since 1997. As [...]
H-2B Cap Reached for Second Half of FY2009
USCIS announced yesterday, January 8, 2009, that it has received sufficient number of applications under the congressionally mandated H-2B cap for the second half of Fiscal Year 2009 (FY2009). USCIS is notifying the public that Jan. 7, 2009 was the “final receipt date” for new H-2B worker petitions requesting employment start dates prior to October [...]