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
President Trump Temporarily Suspends U.S. Entry for Certain H-1B, J-1 and L-1 Workers
In an executive order dated Monday, June 22, 2020, President Trump has temporarily barred certain work visa holders from entering the U.S. The restriction becomes effective at 12:01 a.m. EDT on June 24, 2020, will expire on December 31, 2020 (unless renewed), and will ban certain H, J and L work visa holders from entering the U.S.
Update (August 13, 2020): Please see an updated article with exceptions to the travel ban rules.
Details of the Ban – Limited to […]
July 2020 Visa Bulletin – EB India Advances Well
The U.S. State Department has just released the July 2020 Visa Bulletin which is the tenth Visa Bulletin for the FY2020 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the continuing significant forward movement in EB-1 India together with relatively good forward movement for the other India EB categories; suggesting additional notable movements across other much-delayed categories in the coming months.
Possible Executive Order Restricting Work Visas – Rumor Roundup and Analysis
Our office does not normally react to or otherwise speculate on or encourage rumors – as there have been many as far as immigration is concerned over the past years and especially over the recent months. But we feel compelled to share what we hearing from Washington with respect to some possible upcoming restrictions on some work visas. Please note that these notes and thoughts are not guaranteed to happen and are subject to change.
Overall, the administration is appearing to look for […]
USCIS Starts Reopening Field Offices and ASC Biometrics Facilities
After a 2.5-month closure, USCIS has announced that they are in the process of reinstating public services at USCIS field offices and ASC biometrics facilities. It is expected that most field offices and application support centers (ASC) will begin reopening on or shortly after June 4th. There will be fewer appointments and health and safety protocols will be place.
Interviews and Appointments
USCIS will send notices to applicants with previously-scheduled appointments and interviews. USCIS will only allow the applicant, one representative, one […]