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
How to Handle (or Prevent) H-4 Denial Due to Prior Employer’s H-1B Revocation
Our office has been receiving an increasing number of inquiries and reports of situations where USCIS would deny a pending I-539 H-4 application (sometimes with a concurrent I-765 H-4 EAD) based on a prior employer’s H-1B petition where the prior employer has withdrawn the H-1B petition once the employee has switched employers. This situation can cause significant issues, ranging from a delay in H-4/EAD approval to being unlawfully present in the US and subject to a subsequent ban on entering the US. […]
October 2022 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 India Major Retrogression; EB-1/EB-2 Visa Numbers Used Up For This Fiscal Year
The U.S. State Department has just released the October 2022 Visa Bulletin which is the first Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the major retrogression in the EB-2 India cutoff dates which means that a large number of pending EB-2 India I-485 applications will be on significant hold until the cutoff dates advance again. Similarly, it appears that USCIS/DOS have used up all of the visa numbers (especially for EB-1 and EB-2) for the fiscal year (ending on September 30th) which means that no new I-485 approvals are expected […]
Congratulations on Your Green Card Approval – Next Steps and Action Items
One of the most exiting moments for a green card applicant is receiving the “New Card Produced” status update or the actual I-485 approval notice or green card in the mail. Congratulations! This article contains additional steps and considerations for new green card holders, with focus on employment-based immigrants.
Travel or Employment While Waiting for Green Card Production and Receipt
The green card is produced and mailed shortly after the I-485 application is approved. In most cases this takes a few days, but it may be up to several weeks. Also, the green card is mailed to the address USCIS has […]
FY2023 H-1B Cap Reached Without Subsequent Lottery Rounds and Selections
USCIS announced that as of August 23, 2022 they have reached the H-1B cap limit for fiscal year 2023 (FY 2023). This means that they will not be conducting additional lottery rounds of selection like they have been doing in past years; this also means that all H-1B cap registrants who were not selected under the first round are now considered as “Not-selected.”
Historically High Number of Applicants and First Round Selections Means No Additional Lottery Rounds
For FY2023 USCIS received 483,927 H-1B registrations and initially selected 127,600 registrations. USCIS had projected that this number of selections will likely be sufficient […]