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
USCIS Delays Production of Green Cards and EADs
Many of our clients and readers have recently experienced delays in production of Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) cards (also “green cards”) or Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) and many have attributed these delays to the COVID-19 closures. There is another reason having to do with vendor and staffing issues at USCIS.
Green Card/EAD Production Vendor Contract Cancelled Despite USCIS Staffing Issues
USCIS has reduced capacity to print secure documents such as green cards and EADs after it ended a contract with an outside vendor responsible for printing these documents. […]
August 2020 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 India, EB-1 China and EB-3 ROW Advance Significantly
The U.S. State Department has just released the August 2020 Visa Bulletin which is the eleventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2020 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the continuing significant forward movement in EB-1 India, EB-1 China and EB-3 ROW together with relatively good forward movement for the other EB categories; suggesting additional notable movements across other much-delayed categories in the coming months.
Options and Strategies for Green Card Holders Stuck Outside of US Due to COVID-19
The Coronavirus/COVID-19 closures and travel disruptions have created many challenges in everyone’s life, including for many U.S. green card holders who are stuck outside of the U.S. for a considerable period of time which poses a significant risk to the maintenance of the lawful permanent resident status. This article discusses the issues and some options and strategies to protect the green card.
Reentry Permit Protects the Green Card
U.S. permanent residents (green card holders) who spend an extended period of time outside of the U.S. are likely (or should be) aware […]
President Trump Temporarily Suspends U.S. Entry for Certain H-1B, J-1 and L-1 Workers
In an executive order dated Monday, June 22, 2020, President Trump has temporarily barred certain work visa holders from entering the U.S. The restriction becomes effective at 12:01 a.m. EDT on June 24, 2020, will expire on December 31, 2020 (unless renewed), and will ban certain H, J and L work visa holders from entering the U.S.
Update (August 13, 2020): Please see an updated article with exceptions to the travel ban rules.
Details of the Ban – Limited to […]