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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DV-2021 Diversity Visa (Green Card) Lottery Opens October 2, 2019
The Department of State has announced the DV-2021 Diversity Visa (a.k.a. “green card”) lottery dates. The dates for electronic entry submission for this year’s lottery are between noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Wednesday, October 2, 2019, and noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5), on Tuesday, November 5 2019.
Applicants may access the electronic Diversity Visa entry form (E-DV) at www.dvlottery.state.gov during the registration period. Paper entries will not be accepted. Applicants are strongly encouraged not to wait until the last week of the registration period to enter. Heavy demand may result in website delays. No entries will be accepted […]
What are USCIS Requirements for Certified Foreign Language Translations?
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) requires any non-English language document submitted as evidence or in support of an application or petition to be accompanied by a certified English translation which has to meet certain specific requirements.
Foreign Language Translation Requirements
According to the Code of Federal Regulations, 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3),
Any document containing foreign language submitted to USCIS shall be accompanied by a full English language translation which the translator has certified as complete and accurate, and by the translator’s certification that he or she is competent to translate from the foreign language into English.
As a result, any foreign language document […]
October 2019 Visa Bulletin – Mixed Bag of Recovery and Delays; First Bulletin for New Fiscal Year
The U.S. State Department has just released the October 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the first Visa Bulletin for the FY2020 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is that EB-1 recovers but not fully as EB-1 India remains stuck in 2015. EB-2/3 ROW is back to Current but EB-2 India/China barely move while EB-3 India/China advance significantly – possibly creating downgrade opportunities. Also, we share predictions for the next several months.
What to Do After H-1B Petition Denial: How and When to Submit I-290B MTR/Appeals?
An unfortunate fact about the current H-1B climate is the historically high request for evidence (“RFE”) and denial rates for H-1B petitions. Government data and research by many organizations (see National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) analysis) have shown historically high H-1B denial rates – with some first-time H-1B petitions having a denial rate of 32% compared to 6% just four years ago. Our firm has been very active in not only helping petitions prevent such denials but also in helping with executing post-denial strategies. This article seeks to outline practical options and strategies for dealing with an H-1B […]