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
January 2020 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 ROW to be Current Soon; EB-2/EB-3 ROW Cutoff Date Anticipated
The U.S. State Department has just released the January 2020 Visa Bulletin which is the fourth 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 3-day forward movement in EB-2 India). EB-1 ROW is expected to be back to “Current” very soon while EB-2 ROW and EB-3 ROW cutoff dates are anticipated over the next few months.
USCIS Seeks to Increase and Change Filing Fees and Forms
The Department of Homeland Security has released a proposed rule seeking to increase many of the Citizenship and Immigration (USCIS) application filing fees. The weighted average of the increase is 21 percent and USCIS is making form changes and introducing several new forms. Comments on this proposed rule are due December 16, 2019 and, if finalized, fee increases are likely to become effective in early 2020.
The highlights of the proposed rule are significant increase for I-485 filers and especially an additional fee for EAD/AP applications; premium processing will take 15 calendar (and not business) days; naturalization […]
December 2019 Visa Bulletin – Slow Movement; EB-2/EB-3 ROW Cutoff Dates Expected Soon
The U.S. State Department has just released the December 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the third 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 2-day forward movement in EB-2 India). EB-2 and EB-3 ROW cutoff dates are anticipated very soon.
Poland Designated a Visa Waiver Program Country
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that as of November 11, 2019, citizens of Poland will be able to apply to travel to the United States for tourism or business purposes for up to 90 days without obtaining a U.S. visa under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP).
ESTA Authorization Required
Under the Visa Waiver Program, citizens of Poland will be able to apply online for authorization to travel to the United States through the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA). These authorizations are valid for two […]