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
USCIS I-90 Green Card Renewal: Three-Year Auto Renewal for Pending Applications
USCIS has updated the process for green card renewal applicants with a revised Form I-797, Notice of Action for Form I-90, Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card where applicants seek to renew an expiring green card. Starting September 2024, USCIS has extended the period during which a receipt notice will be valid for proof of lawful permanent resident status to 36 months past the green card expiration date.
I-90 Extension Sticker Replaced by I-797 Receipt Notice on Secure Paper
The revised I-797 receipt notice, together with an applicant’s green card, […]
Birth Certificates for Immigration: Requirements and Solutions
Applicants for U.S. immigration benefits have faced (or will face) at some point in the process the need to provide a birth certificate. Both U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) and the U.S. Department of State (“DOS”) require applicants to submit a birth certificate as part of the permanent residency (green card) process. The availability of a birth certificate and the contents in it vary greatly among countries and also over periods of time. This article aims to document what are the USCIS/DOS requirements with respect to birth certificates and to suggest ways to meet these requirements.
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How to Change Address with USCIS?
Most non-U.S. citizens are required to report a change of their residential address within 10 days of moving within the U.S. or its territories. This requirement becomes even more important when there is an application pending with USCIS. The change of address notification is done by either USCIS online account or by submitting (on paper!) Form AR-11 with USCIS. It should be noted that an USPS address change or forwarding does NOT change the address with USCIS.
Who Must File and Who Does Not Have to File Change of Address?
October 2024 Visa Bulletin – First Visa Bulletin for Fiscal Year Brings Limited Cutoff Date Recovery
The U.S. State Department has released the October 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the first Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the month’s Visa Bulletin is the fact that despite wide expectations for significant forward advancement among many employment-based categories, the forward movement is somewhat limited and, in fact, some categories have moved back. EB-2/EB-3 India Filing Dates may not advance meaningfully for “several fiscal years.” USCIS will use the Dates for Filing for October 2024. […]