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
New H-1B USCIS/DOL Rules to Increase Prevailing Wages, Tighten Specialty Occupation Definition and Make Third-Party Placements More Difficult
In a coordinated effort, both DHS/USCIS and DOL have just released two new rules which seek to introduce substantial changes to the H-1B program. DOL seeks to increase the prevailing wage levels by a substantial margin with immediate effective date of October 8, 2020. DHS/USCIS seeks to change the definition of specialty occupation and employer-employee relationship and to make third-party placements more difficult and expensive to employers; with effective date of early December 2020.
Update: on December 1, 2020 a US Court blocked the implementation of these […]
USCIS Filing Fee Increase Blocked by Federal Court
On September 29, 2020, a district court blocked the effective date of the August 2020 Final Rule, which sought to increase the fees (significantly in many cases) for many immigration services in addition to requiring revised forms. See ruling.
As a result, the current fee schedule and the current version of the relevant forms continue to remain in effect.
It is likely that the government will appeal this decision; however, unfortunately, it is impossible to say with any certainty how long the rule will remain […]
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 […]