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
Mid-October Visa Bulletin Expectations: EB-1 Slow Movement; EB-3 India to Advance Significantly
As has become a regular practice, our office has obtained an updated set of expected cutoff date movements over the next several months. Mr. Charles Oppenheim, the Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division for the U.S. Department of State (DOS) (he is the person responsible for the Visa Bulletin), has provided updated explanations and expectations for the following months. The main takeaway is that EB-1 (ROW, India and China) may advance albeit very gradually in the near future; also, EB-3 India is expected to advance notably which makes it likely that it will be more advanced that […]
USCIS Ombudsman Listening Session on H-1B Premium Processing Suspension
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) Ombudsman Office is organizing a listening session regarding the suspension of premium processing for most H-1B petitions. The goal of this session is to hear from the public how the H-1B premium processing suspension has affected them. This is intended to be only a “listening” session, no policy decisions or announcements are expected. But this is an opportunity for anyone – business, employee, a third-party client – to express their opinion on the subject. […]
November 2018 Visa Bulletin – No Forward Movement for EB India and Most of EB China
The U.S. State Department has just released the November 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the second Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin headline is the lack of any movement in many categories, including EB-1 India/China, EB-2 India and EB-3 India/China.
Summary of the November 2018 Visa Bulletin – Employment-Based (EB)
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Visa Bulletin Update: EB-1 India and China Update – Not Good News
Our office has obtained an updated set of expected cutoff date movements over the next several months as we begin the new fiscal year. Mr. Charles Oppenheim who is the Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division for the U.S. Department of State (DOS) (he is the person responsible for the Visa Bulletin) has provided updated explanations and expectations for fiscal year 2019 (FY19) which begins on October 1, 2018. The main takeaway is that EB-1 India and China will move very slowly, it at all, over the coming months. […]