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
September 2019 Visa Bulletin – Retrogression and Unavailability for Many EB Categories; Last Bulletin for Fiscal Year
The U.S. State Department has just released the September 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the last Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the significant additional retrogression in many employment-based categories (except for Rest of World) and the unavailability for EB-1 India. FB-2A continues to be current in the last Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year.
August 2019 Visa Bulletin – Cutoff Dates for EB-2 and EB-3 ROW; Additional Retrogression for EB-1
The U.S. State Department has just released the August 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the eleventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the introduction of a cutoff date for many categories, including EB-2 and EB-3 Rest of World, combined with the significant retrogression in EB-1.
USCIS Reverses Position on FB-2A: Will Use Final Action with “Current” Dates Allowing I-485 Filings
The two weeks since the release of the July 2019 Visa Bulletin have created much confusion with in the FB-2A category and especially with respect to which dates would USCIS use in determining who can file I-485 adjustment of status.
Initially, on June 14, USCIS indicated that for all family-based cases (including FB-2A), they will use the “Filing” dates. However, on June 26, 2019, USCIS announced that they are reversing their position and they will accept I-485 filings for the FB-2A category as they have agreed to use the “Final Action” column for all countries which is “Current.” […]
Should I Bring an Attorney With Me to the USCIS Interview?
With a very few exceptions, an in-person interview with USCIS adjudicator is a required step in the review process for all employment and family I-485 adjustment of status and all N-400 naturalization applications. An interview is required for many I-751 removal of condition applications as well. An applicant has the right to be accompanied by an attorney to such interview and a very common related question our office receives is, “Should I Bring an Attorney with Me to the USCIS Interview?” […]