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
February 2019 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 Dates Advance Slowly; (Almost) No Forward Movement in Filing Dates
The U.S. State Department has just released the February 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the gentle forward movement in EB-1 contrasted with the lack of almost any movement in the Filing Dates. 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.
Summary of the February 2019 Visa Bulletin – Employment-Based (EB)
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January 2019 Visa Bulletin – EB-3 India Filing Dates Advance for Downgrading
The U.S. State Department has just released the January 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the fourth Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the gentle forward movement in EB-1 and the continuing significant forward movement in EB-3 India Filing Dates making it more advanced than EB-2 India under the Filing Dates and creating favorable downgrade options for some.
Summary of the January 2019 Visa Bulletin – Employment-Based (EB)
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USCIS Proposes Rule to Change H-1B Cap Lottery System and US Master’s Degree Lottery
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) has published a proposed 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.
Please note that this is a proposed rule with comment period until January 2, 2019. This proposed rule is subject to significant changes before it becomes effective. It is also unclear if and when this rule will become effective. Please stay tuned and sign up for our weekly newsletter to get updates […]
December 2018 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 Gentle Forward Movement; EB-3 India Advances Faster than EB-2 India
The U.S. State Department has just released the December 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the third Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the gentle “catch-up” forward movement in EB-1 and the faster movement in EB-3 India, especially compared to EB-2 India and the fact that EB-3 India is more advanced than EB-2 India under the “Dates for Filing” category.
Summary of the December 2018 Visa Bulletin – Employment-Based (EB)
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