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
June 2021 Visa Bulletin – Continued Forward Movement for EB India
The U.S. State Department has just released the June 2021 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the continuing significant forward movement for EB-2 and EB-3 India. We also discuss options for October-December 2020 I-485 EB-2/EB-2 India applicants whose priority date may be current under Final Action.
Confirmed: USICS to Waive Biometrics Requirements for H-4, L-2 and Certain E Status Applications for Period of 2 Years
Update (9/26/2023): USCIS is removing the biometrics requirement (and fee) for all I-539 applications starting October 1, 2023. Details here.
USCIS has confirmed policy change that will temporarily suspend the biometrics requirements for certain I-539 applicants for a two-year period beginning on May 17, 2021. The biometrics suspension will apply to the H-4, L-2, and E-1, E-2, and E-3 categories of Form I-539 applications if they are (1) pending on May 17, 2021, and have not yet received a biometric services appointment notice, and (2) are new applications received by USCIS from May 17, 2021 until the […]
May 2021 Visa Bulletin – Continued Forward Movement for EB India
The U.S. State Department has just released the May 2021 Visa Bulletin which is the eighth Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the continuing significant forward movement for EB-2 and EB-3 India.
How to Port and Retain a Pending I-485 to a New Employer Under AC21 – I-485 Supplement J
With many applicants filing (or having filed) adjustment of status (I-485) applications, especially in the EB-2 and EB-3 India and China categories, and due to the fact that there are many I-485 applicants who are hoping to switch jobs, our office has handled numerous AC21 green card porting cases. Many I-485 filers have or will soon be eligible for porting their I-485 green card process to a new employer because their employment-based I-485 application have been (or soon will be) pending for more than 180 days. As a result, we seek to remind eligible applicants that their I-485 may be […]