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
H2-B Cap Reached
On July 30, the USCIS announced that it has reached the H-2B cap for the first half of the fiscal year 2009. According to this announcement, July 29, 2008 is the “final receipt date” for H-2B petitions. All petitions received after July 29, 2008 for H-2B with starting date of April 1, 2009 will be [...]
Adjustment of Status (I-485) Vaccination Requirements Changed
The USCIS has released a revised list of vaccines required for applicants seeking to adjust status to become permanent legal residents. Please read the full article for the updated list of vaccines, required for all medical exams conducted on or after August 1, 2008.
Electronic System for Travel Authorization Screenshots
We have written about the upcoming new system for pre-registration of travelers of visa waiver countries coming to the U.S. Under the new system, all travelers will be required to complete a pre-registration via an online system before departing for the U.S. There will be a period of several months in which the system will be functional, yet completion of the information will be optional. It is expected that beginning January 2009 such pre-registration will be mandatory for all visa waiver country travelers. The USCIS has now released a series of screenshots indicating the actual operation of the registration website. Please read the full article for more information and for the USCIS-released screenshots.
H-2B Numbers Update – Cap Limit is Near
USCIS updated the H-2B cap numbers as of July 21st. As of that date, there have been 29,234 petitions counted towards the 33,000 cap for the first half of the fiscal year. With the current rate, the H-2B cap is expected to be reached within a week or so.