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
H-1B Cap Data Entry and Receipting Completed
Many of our readers are aware that as of April 5, 2019, USCIS had received a sufficient number of H-1B cap-subject petitions to fill the annual fiscal year (FY) 2020 H-1B quota (total of 201,000 cap applications). USCIS has just announced that as of May 17, 2019 they have completed the intake process and the issuance of receipt notices for cases which were selected under the random lottery.
H-1B Completes H-1B Petition Data Entry on May 17, 2019
USCIS has just announced that they have completed the data entry and receipting of all selected H-1B cap petitions. This means that the […]
Nationals of Israel Eligible for E-2 Treaty Investor Visas as of May 1, 2019
Beginning May 1, 2019, Israel has been added as an E visa treaty country which makes its nationals eligible to obtain the E-2 treaty investor visa classification. Spouses and unmarried children under 21 years of age of such treaty investor and employees are also eligible for the E-2 classification.
About the E-2 Treaty Investor Visa
The E-2 nonimmigrant classification allows citizens of countries with which the United States has a treaty of commerce and navigation to be admitted to the United States when they are investing substantial capital in a U.S. business. E-2 status is also available to certain employees of such […]
June 2019 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 India Retrogression; Slow Movement Elsewhere
The U.S. State Department has just released the June 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is significant retrogression in EB-1 India and the extremely slow forward movement in almost all employment-based categories. EB-1 China remains unchanged and EB-3 India remains more advanced than EB-2 India with continuing favorable downgrade options for some. […]
Federal District Court Blocks Temporarily USCIS Unlawful Presence Policy for F, J and M Nonimmigrants
A district court judge for the Middle District of North Carolina has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction, effective immediately, enjoining USCIS’s memo titled “Accrual of Unlawful Presence and F, J, and M Nonimmigrants,” (see our article and analysis on the initial memorandum) originally issued on May 10, 2018, and updated on August 9, 2018, that went into effect on August 9, 2018, until further order of the court.
The Guilford College v. McAleenan Preliminary Injunction
On May 3, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina issued a decision in the F, J and M unlawful presence litigation […]