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
February 2020 Visa Bulletin – EB-3 ROW Cutoff Date Imminent
The U.S. State Department has just released the February 2020 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth Visa Bulletin for the FY2020 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the very slow forward movement across the backlogged employment-based categories and no movement for EB India (except for 1-day forward movement in EB-2 India). EB-3 ROW cutoff dates are anticipated in the next month’s Visa Bulletin.
2020 H-1B Work Visa Cap Season Is Underway With Major Changes – Lottery Opens for New Registrations March 1, 2020
The new H-1B work visa “cap” season is set to begin with substantial changes to the process, the timelines and the chances for success.
Over the past year or so, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has been working on changing the process of submitting first-time H-1B “cap” work visa petitions and they have just confirmed that all of the pieces of the new system are in place and that the new H-1B cap season will be done substantially differently compared to prior years.
The New H-1B Cap Registration System
The H-1B cap filing […]
The F-1 OPT Cap-Gap Rule: Extension of Post-Completion OPT and F-1 Status for Eligible Students Applying for H-1B Cap
Spring and early summer are generally busy period for recent foreign college graduates as far as employment immigration is concerned. On one hand, foreign college graduates are either applying for their initial term OPT, their 24-month STEM extensions (if they qualify) or their H-1B work visas under the H-1B cap.
Our office fields many questions from prospective or recent college graduates with respect to their OPT and H-1B options. In this article we will focus on a number of questions relating to H-1B and the “cap-gap” provision allowing students with expiring OPT work permits to continue working subject to a […]
What Happens After I-485 Interview When The Priority Date Is Not Current?
Ever since USCIS started requiring interviews for employment-based I-485 adjustment of status applications in October of 2017, a very common question, especially nationals of India and China whose priority dates are not current is, “What happens to my I-485 after the interview and until my priority date is current?”
Interviewed I-485 Cases Normally Transferred to NBC or TSC
After the I-485 interview is concluded without issues and if the priority date of the primary applicant is not current, USCIS will hold the case in abeyance until the priority date becomes current and […]