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
Second H-1B Cap Lottery Completed; Newly Selected Petitions Must Be Filed by November 7th
USCIS has just completed the second round of the H-1B cap selection lottery and notified the selected applicants. The August 2024 selection round was due to the fact that a (significant) number of H-1B cap registrations selected under the first round (see our report on the initial round of selections) did not file an H-1B petition before the June 30th deadline; as a result, USCIS is allocating the unused numbers randomly among the non-selected cases under the first round. […]
Is my Degree a STEM-designated Program? Updated STEM Degree List
Many of our readers, and especially those foreign students on F-1 status who are in a technical field, are aware of the regulations which allow holders of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) degrees to obtain an additional 24-month OPT work permit extension, in addition to the 12-month post-completion OPT work permit. Understanding the eligibility rules and especially understanding if one’s degree is a STEM degree is critical in planning for subsequent immigration steps, including whether to file for an H-1B petition.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the agency tasked with maintaining the STEM degree list and the list […]
H-1B Cap Second Lottery for 2024 Expected in Late July/Early August
After the initial H-1B cap filing window closed on June 30, 2024, we expect the second lottery to be conducted and results to be announced in late July or early August 2024. For instance, during last year, the second lottery results took until mid-August to be announced and all secondary selection registrants to be notified.
Automatic Consideration Under Second Lottery
All properly-submitted registrants who were NOT selected under the first round of the H-1B cap selection lottery are automatically considered for the second round lottery. Note that registrants who were selected under the first round but did not submit […]
August 2024 Visa Bulletin – Not Much Movement; EB-3 Expected to be Unavailable in September 2024
The U.S. State Department has released the August 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the eleventh Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of notable forward movement in almost all categories. EB-3 ROW/Mexico/Philippines expected to become unavailable in September. […]