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 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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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. […]