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
June 2018 Visa Bulletin – No Employment Movement Except Four Days Advancement for EB-2 India
The U.S. State Department has just released the June 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of any movement in all EB categories with the exception of EB-2 India which advances only by four days (!).
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Restoring H-1B Status Following H-1B Petition Denial Without Travel Abroad
It is not a secret that the last several month have brought a great increase in the rate of RFEs and denials on H-1B petitions – mainly focusing on the specialty occupation and right to control issues. As a result, there has been a corresponding increase in the rate of denials and in a number of cases H-1B workers have found themselves without valid status (or being unlawfully present) as a result of such a denial.
This is especially true for H-1B extensions where the underlying H-1B term has expired and the H-1B extension has been denied or with H-1B transfer […]
What to Expect During a USCIS Biometrics Appointment?
Many USCIS immigration benefits require the collection of biometrics information from the applicant at an USCIS Application Support Center (ASC). The collection of biometrics is a routine part of the application process and in most cases involves taking digital fingerprints, photo and signature.
Which Types of Applications Require Biometrics?
At this time biometrics are generally required for some types of work permits, applications to change of extend status (I-539), green card applications (I-485) or renewals (I-90), reentry permits (I-131), and U.S. naturalization (N-400).
The Biometrics Appointment Notice
The biometrics appointment notice is usually mailed several weeks after an application which requires the collection of […]
Alert: FY2019 H-1B Cap Demand Very Strong; Random Lottery Just Completed
Our office just learned that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has completed the intake and processing of all of the fiscal year (FY2019) H-1B cap petitions. According to USCIS, there were over 190,098 H-1B cap petitions filed during the April 2nd-6th filing period. This indicates that the number of H-1B cap filings this year is slightly lower than the number of H-1B cap filings during last year’s cap season (199,000); nonetheless, this marks continuing very strong H-1B cap demand. The H-1B cap lottery has also been completed. […]