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 Final Rule Changes US Master’s Degree Lottery and Adds Future Cap Year Preregistration
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) has finalized and published the final rule which seeks to amend in substantial ways the way the annual H-1B “cap” work visa applications and lottery are being filed and how the U.S. master’s degree applications are being allocated under the H-1B cap lottery. It is important to note that the major change in the rule — the introduction of a cap preregistration system — is being suspended until such system is created, tested and rolled out.
As a result, the April 2019 cap season will continue to be held as in previous years with […]
Premium Processing for Pending H-1B Cap Cases Reinstated
USCIS has announced that starting January 29, 2019, they will accept requests for premium processing “upgrades” for pending H-1B cap cases which were filed in April 2018. This reinstatement of premium processing applies only to “regular” and “master’s” cap cases which are still pending at this time. Premium processing remains available for H-1B extensions with the same employer which are filed with the Nebraska Service Center and cap-exempt employer H-1B petitions filed with California Service Center.
Background of the H-1B Premium Processing Service Suspension
Effective September 11, 2018 USCIS had suspended premium processing for most H-1B petitions until February 19, […]
H-1B Cap 2019 Work Visa Season Is Underway – Opens for New Filings on Monday, April 1, 2019
On April 1, 2019 the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will start accepting applications for one of the most popular U.S. work visas, H-1B, for fiscal year (FY) 2020. Our intelligence and past experience suggest that the H-1B cap 2019 season will be very short — five business days. Our office is already preparing a number of H-1B applications for our clients and we urge employers to prepare for a very short H-1B season by identifying and initiating H-1B sponsorship cases now.
USCIS To Use “Final Action” Dates for I-485 Filings from February 1st
USCIS has just announced that as of February 1, 2019, they will use the “Final Action” dates in the February 2019 Visa Bulletin for accepting new I-485 adjustment of status applications.
This means that applicants who have a current priority date under the January 2019 Visa Bulletin may need to rush and file I-485 immediately and before February 1, 2019 as their date may no longer be current. […]