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
August 2018 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 ROW Cutoff Date; EB-3 China Advances Significantly; No Movement for EB-2/3 India
The U.S. State Department has just released the August 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the eleventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the cutoff date introduction to EB-1 ROW, the notable forward movement in EB-3 China and the lack of movement in EB-2/3 India. […]
July 2018 Visa Bulletin – EB-3 China Retrogression; EB2/3 India Advance Notably
The U.S. State Department has just released the July 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the tenth Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the significant retrogression in EB-3 China which means that EB-2 China gets back to be more advanced than EB-3 China and, at least temporarily, puts an end to the options for EB-3 China downgrading. Also, there is notable forward movement in EB-2 and EB-3 India. […]
USCIS Changes Policy on Unlawful Presence Trigger for F, J and M Nonimmigrants
Update (May 3, 2019): The Policy Memorandum has been blocked by a preliminary injunction.
In a Policy Memorandum dated May 10, 2018 and effective as of August 9, 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is changing the way it treats non-immigrants who are in the U.S. on F, J and M status and, specifically, when such non-immigrants either complete/stop their program or violate the terms of their status. Previously, F/J/M non-immigrants had to be formally deemed to have violated status to be considered unlawfully present. Under the new policy, completion of the F/J/M program or violation […]
USCIS Completes Data Entry and Receipting of H-1B Cap Petitions for FY2019
Many of our readers are aware that as of April 6, 2018, USCIS had received a sufficient number of H-1B cap-subject petitions to fill the annual H-1B quota (total of 190,000 cap applications). As USCIS has been issuing receipt notices for the H-1B cap cases which are being selected for processing, we wanted to provide an update as to how long will H-1B petitioners and applicants wait to hear whether their H-1B petition has been selected for processing under the H-1B cap.
H-1B Completes H-1B Petition Data Entry on May 15, 2018
USCIS has just announced that they have completed the […]