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
Can I Travel Abroad While My I-485 Application is Pending? Risks and Considerations to Avoid Abandonment.
For applicants with pending I-485 applications, understanding the rules and requirements of international travel is essential in order to avoid denial due to abandonment. This article discusses the rules and requirements that must be followed to avoid denials of I-485 application due to abandonment as a result of international travel. […]
The Visa Bulletin Explained: A Guide to Understanding Visa Availability and Retrogression
What is the Visa Bulletin?
Published monthly by the U.S. Department of State (DOS), the Visa Bulletin provides information on visa availability and cutoff dates which determine which immigrant visa (green card) applicants are eligible to complete the final stages of the green card application process and which green card applications can be approved. The availability and cutoff dates are essentially DOS’s allocations of the visa numbers based on the applicable annual green card quotas.
By law the U.S. government can only give out a certain number of green cards (or immigrant visas) each year and there are certain rules about […]
Visa Administrative Processing: What Is It, How Long Does it Take and What Should I Expect?
A U.S. visa stamp refusal under “administrative processing” means that the U.S. Consulate is unable to approve and issue the visa stamp immediately and needs additional time for review of the application or other related work. This article seeks to provide information and answers about the often-dreaded U.S. administrative processing visa application outcome. […]
December 2023 Visa Bulletin – (Again) No Forward Movement
The U.S. State Department has released the December 2023 Visa Bulletin which is the third Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is lack of pretty much any movement in almost all employment and family-based preference categories. […]