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
New Zealand Citizens Now Eligible for E-2 Treaty Investor Visas
Beginning June 10, 2019, New Zealand has been added as an E visa treaty country which makes its nationals eligible to obtain the E-2 treaty investor (and the E-1 treaty trader) visa classification (see Public Law 115-226). Spouses and unmarried children under 21 years of age of such treaty investor and employees are also eligible for the E-2 classification. […]
July 2019 Visa Bulletin – FB-2A is Current Allowing I-485 Filings; EB China Advances Well While EB India Unchanged
The U.S. State Department has just released the July 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the tenth Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the fact that FB-2A is “Current” allowing I-485 filings. Also, EB-2 and EB-3 China advance by several months. No significant movement for EB India.
Second Update (06/26/2019): After indicating otherwise, on June 26, 2019, USCIS has revised their position about FB-2A and they WILL consider the “Final Action” dates for FB-2A only. As a result, for July 2019, the cutoff date for all countries for FB-2A […]
How to Handle Specialty Occupation H-1B RFEs?
Our readers and clients who have been involved in the H-1B program and especially over the last 12+ months must have experienced or at least heard about the “specialty occupation” requests for evidence (RFE) which have been and continue to be issued by USCIS. Our office has been receiving and handling numerous such RFEs and we have been working with clients and with the broader immigration attorney community to formulate a strong strategy for responding to this kind of an RFE.
Background of the Specialty Occupation RFE
The specialty occupation issue is not new. One of the explicit requirements for each […]
How to Handle Wage Level I H-1B RFEs?
Our readers and clients who have been involved in the H-1B program over the last couple of years (and especially those participating in the H-1B cap filing season) must have experienced or at least heard about the Wage Level I requests for evidence (RFE) which have been and continue to be issued by USCIS. Our office has received numerous such RFEs and we have been working with clients and with the broader immigration attorney community to formulate a strong strategy for responding to this kind of an RFE.
Background of the Wage Level I RFE
The first time Wage Level I […]