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
EADs Pending for More than 90 Days
By statute (8 CFR § 274a.13), USCIS is required to adjudicate all EAD applications within 90 days from the date of USCIS receipt of the application. However, the spike in employment-based green card applications during the summer of 2007 has brought a somewhat expected wave of backlogs - in the EAD processing. USCIS allows an EAD [...]
2008 Green Card Lottery Dates Released
Mark your calendars - the DV-2010 lottery (green card lottery) dates have been announced - online applications for the lottery must be submitted between Noon EDT on October 2, 2008 and Noon EST on December 1, 2008. Although information and instructions have not been posted yet, they should be posted shortly on the Department of State [...]
E-Verify and Students on Curricular Practical Training
Problem: students on Curricular Practical Training (CPT) are always sent to secondary verification by E-Verify. From our own practice and from statistics released by the government, it is clear that more and more employers are signing up for E-Verify, some in response to federal or state regulations, some on their own effort to maintain a compliant [...]
Citizenship Applications Down 59%
USCIS has released the numbers of citizenship applications filed for the first six months of 2008. For the period January-June 2008, on average, there were approximately 46,000 citizenship applications each month. As a comparison, the monthly average for the same period in 2007 was approximately 115,000 citizenship applications. This marks a decline in the average [...]