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
Biden Administration Withdraws Plan to Rescind H-4 EAD Rule But Challenges Remain
The Biden Administration has withdrawn Trump’s plan to rescind the H-4 EAD program. The proposed rule, “Removing H-4 Dependent Spouses from the Class of Aliens Eligible for Employment Authorization,” which was under review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) has been withdrawn as of January 25, 2021.
Challenges for H-4 EAD Applicants Remain
While the Biden administration’s withdrawal of the H-4 EAD rescission rule is welcome news, there are many major challenges for H-4 EAD applicants.
USCIS: H-1B Cap Selection Continues to be Random Lottery (and Not Salary-Based)
As we are heading into the H-1B cap season this year, USCIS has just announced that a January 7, 2021 H-1B Selection final rule which sought to introduce salary-based selection will be delayed until at least December 31, 2021. As a result, this coming H-1B cap lottery will continue to be based on random selection as it was in prior years.
February 2021 Visa Bulletin – Minor Forward Movement; Predictions for Upcoming Months
The U.S. State Department has just released the February 2021 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth Visa Bulletin for the FY2021 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the slowing rate of forward movement in most employment-based categories. There is almost no movement in the Final Action for family-based categories although Dates of Filing are advancing modestly.
Biden Administration Blocks Implementation of Revised H-1B Specialty Occupation, DOL Wage Level Increase and H-1B Cap Wage Priority Rules
Among the many first-day actions taken by the new Biden administration was to immediately put a block (or delay) to some of the last-minute employment-based immigration rules which were sought to be rushed by the prior administration.
In a January 20, 2021 memo, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain directed in part, that (a) all rules pending at the Federal Register that have not been published must be immediately withdrawn and (b) agencies must “consider” postponing the effective dates for regulations that have been published, but not yet taken […]