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
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 […]
CBP Introduces Alphanumeric Format to I-94 Numbers
Starting May 2019, CBP is introducing some minor changes to the I-94 number format by making them alphanumeric. I-94 numbers are 11 digits long and until now they only contained numbers; however, starting this month, CBP is starting to use alphanumeric I-94 numbers. At this time the length will still be 11 characters but the first nine will be digits, followed by a letter in the 10th position, and another digit in the 11th position.
Why is CBP Changing to Alphanumeric I-94?
According to CBP, they are starting to add letters simply because they are running out of numbers.
In order […]
Alert: FY2020 H-1B Cap Demand Very Strong; Random Lottery Completed
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has announced that they have completed the intake and processing of all of the fiscal year (FY2020) H-1B cap petitions. According to USCIS, there were over 201,011 H-1B cap petitions filed during the April 1st-5th filing period. This indicates that the number of H-1B cap filings this year is slightly higher than the number of H-1B cap filings during last year’s cap season (190,098) and this confirms our expectations and observations for a very strong H-1B cap demand. The H-1B cap lottery has also been completed. […]
May 2019 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 India and China Unchanged and Future Does not Look Promising; Slow Movement Elsewhere
The U.S. State Department has just released the May 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the eighth 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-1 India and China remain unchanged (with no forward movement and even retrogression expected) and EB-3 India remains more advanced than EB-2 India with continuing favorable downgrade options for some. […]