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
October 2020 Visa Bulletin – Major Movement for EB-2 and EB-3 India and China
The U.S. State Department has just released the October 2020 Visa Bulletin which is the first Visa Bulletin for the FY2021 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the major forward movement in employment Dates for Filing and smaller but still notable forward movement in the Final Action dates. There is no movement at all in the family-based dates.
Breaking Update: USCIS has announced that they will use the “Filing Dates” section of the Visa Bulletin for purposes of determining who can file I-485 […]
EB-2 to EB-3 India Downgrading to Benefit from Earlier Priority Date – How and When to Do It? (Updated)
For many years, it has been a true fact of life that an Indian-born applicant can obtain a green card faster under the higher EB-2 preference category (requiring master’s degree or bachelor’s degree and five years of experience) compared to the EB-3 preference category (requiring bachelor’s degree). While we expect this to continue to be the case, we are observing and expecting a possible change in this trend, at least temporarily, with the cutoff dates for EB-3 India advancing and becoming more favorable than the EB-2 India cutoff dates and creating EB-3 India downgrade opportunities for some (but not all).
October […]
September 2020 Visa Bulletin – Last for Fiscal Year; Not Much Forward Movement
The U.S. State Department has just released the September 2020 Visa Bulletin which is the last Visa Bulletin for the FY2020 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of much movement in the last Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. […]
August 2020 USCIS Staff Furlough Called Off
USCIS has just made an announcement to its staff and external stakeholders that the administrative staff furlough which was scheduled to begin on August 30, 2020 has been cancelled and the current USCIS staffing levels would remain unchanged.
Cost Cutting Measures Means Fewer Contractors and Processing Delays
According to USCIS’s Deputy Director of Policy, the agency’s financial situation has improved as a result of increase revenues since April and they are in a position to cut costs in order to avoid staff furloughs. However, USCIS is warning […]