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
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?” […]
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 […]