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
January 2021 Visa Bulletin – Not Much Movement to Open the New Calendar Year
The U.S. State Department has just released the January 2021 Visa Bulletin which is the fourth 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 family-based categories.
ASC Biometrics Backlog at USCIS Likely to Take Months to Clear
Like almost all aspects of life during COVID, USCIS operations have been impacted significantly and we have been seeing extreme delays especially with respect to ASC biometrics processing and, by extension, cases which require biometrics to be completed before adjudication.
After a November 19, 2020 update in which USCIS has indicated that the ASC biometrics backlog is extreme and will likely take months to clear; the current situation at the ASC biometrics facilities is not much better. Although we are seeing minor improvements, biometrics can still take several months. […]
US District Court Blocks DOL Wage Levels and DHS H-1B Amendment Rules
In a December 1, 2020 opinion (PDF copy), a U.S. Judge in Northern California has blocked the implementation of both the DOL and DHS/USCIS Interim Final Rules (IFR) which were introduced in October seeking to substantially increase the DOL wage levels used for H-1B and PERM Labor Certification cases and which also sought to introduce substantial changes to the H-1B program, including third-party worksite placements and specialty occupation.
As a result, DOL is expected to reinstate the pre-October 8 wage levels and DHS is prevented from implementing the new rules which were scheduled to be […]
December 2020 Visa Bulletin – Tapering Forward Movement for EB
The U.S. State Department has just released the December 2020 Visa Bulletin which is the third 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 and the 1-year retrogression in EB-3 India which is likely as a result of strong EB-3 India demand (including EB-3 India downgrades over the last 2 months). There is no movement at all in the family-based categories.