U.S. Immigration Professionals2023-10-22T08:05:06-04:00
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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

2026 H-1B Cap Season – Quota, Timeline, Requirements; Lottery Registration Window Opens March 4th; Wage-Based Weighted Selection

The new H-1B work visa “cap” season is set to begin on March 4 with significant changes to how USCIS will allocate the available visa numbers.   Under the new final rule, the H-1B “cap” selection will be given weight based on each beneficiary’s wage level under the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OES) with higher wage levels getting significantly higher selection chances.       The exact dates for registration are between March 4th and noon eastern U.S. time on March 19th.   

This is the seventh year since USCIS is using the a lottery pre-registration system. As […]

January 8th, 2026|Articles, Employers, H-1B, News, News Alert|

How to Increase the H-1B Cap Lottery Chances of Success This Year?

With the approaching H-1B cap filing season, one of the most common concerns we are hearing from both prospective H-1B employers and candidates is about the H-1B cap lottery and the fact that the random lottery does not provide a great chance of an H-1B application being selected for review.

Selection Rate for the Prior Two Years:
FY2026 (343,981 registrations) FY2025 (470,342 applications)

Our office has handled thousands of H-1B applications and we have seen firsthand […]

January 1st, 2026|Articles, F-1, H-1B, News, News Alert, Students|

DHS Changes H-1B Cap Lottery To Wage-Based Weighted Selection Process

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) has just announced their final rule “Weighted Selection Process for Registrants and Petitioners Seeking to File Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions” which will become effective on February 27, 2026 and will apply to the upcoming (FY2027) H-1B cap registration season.    The new rule changes in substantial ways the method by which H-1B registrations for the annual numerical caps are selected, moving away from a purely random lottery to a system favoring higher wages and skills.

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December 23rd, 2025|Articles, H-1B, News, News Alert|

January 2026 Visa Bulletin – Notable Forward Movement in EB Final Action Dates

The U.S. State Department has released the January 2026 Visa Bulletin which is the fourth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year.  The headline in this month’s Visa Bulletin is the modest forward movement in a few employment categories for I-485 filings with notable forward movement across Final Action dates which suggests that more I485s will be up for review and approval over the coming months. […]

December 18th, 2025|Articles, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

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