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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H-1B Cap Season Timelines
As we are in the back end of this year’s H-1B work visa “cap” registration season (registration ends at noon ET on March 25th), we wanted to provide a reminder for the remaining steps and timelines for this year’s H-1B cap season. As a reminder, the H-1B cap season this year has (1) registration period, (2) lottery/selection and (3) H-1B cap petition submission stages.
Registration Window (Closes noon ET March 25th)
All petitioners seeking to file a new cap H-1B will have to submit an online registration for each […]
H-1B Cap Lottery: Are Chances Going to be Higher Next Year?
As we are just about to enter into this year’s H-1B cap lottery registration, we hear a common and interesting question from candidates and employers who are trying to evaluate the chances of selection under the lottery, “Would the chances of H-1B cap lottery selection be higher next year?” The answer is that different groups of candidates are likely to have significantly different chances for selection next year.
The main reason behind this concern is the delay of the H-1B cap wage selection rule which was set to […]
March 2021 Visa Bulletin – Notable Forward Movement for EB India
The U.S. State Department has just released the March 2021 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the significant forward movement for EB-2 and EB-3 India. There is almost no movement in the Final Action for family-based categories.
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.