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
Premium Processing Reinstated for H-1B Petitions Filed On or Before December 21, 2018
USCIS has announced that starting February 19, 2019, they will accept requests for premium processing “upgrades” for pending H-1B petitions which were filed on or before December 21, 2018. As a result, at this time, the only H-1B petitions where premium processing is not available are petitions filed after December 21, 2018. We do expect premium processing to resume for these cases over the next few weeks. […]
March 2019 Visa Bulletin – Slow Forward Movement Across Almost All Employment-based Categories
The U.S. State Department has just released the March 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the extremely slow forward movement in almost all employment-based categories. EB-3 India Filing dates do not advance at all but EB-3 India remains more advanced than EB-2 India under the Filing Dates and creating favorable downgrade options for some assuming USCIS will accept the Filing Dates chart for I-485 filings during March 2019.
Summary of the March 2019 Visa Bulletin – Employment-Based (EB)
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USCIS Makes Substantial Changes to I-539 Application Process Starting March 11, 2019
USCIS has announced that it is making changes to Form I-539, Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status and that the new revised form will be the only version allowed starting March 11, 2019. Unfortunately, USCIS has also indicated that the form itself will only be available on USCIS website on March 11, 2019 – the same day on which is becomes the only acceptable version of the form. The new process also introduces biometrics processing and fee for every applicant.
03/07/2019 Update: USCIS is releasing the new Form I-539 on March 8th and they would accept both the […]
The University of Farmington – Key Points and Lessons for F-1 CPT Students
Many of our readers are aware of the University of Farmington story from earlier this year when federal agents arrested and charged a number of individuals described as brokers, recruiters and students with a number of violations, including conspiracy to commit visa fraud and overstaying lawful status. The university, which turned out to be a fake institution set-up by federal authorities, was shut down and a multitude of enrolled F-1 foreign students were not only left without status in the United States but a number have been arrested by ICE and put in removal proceedings. This article seeks to describe […]