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
Last Call for H-1B Cap: Very Short and Busy H-1B Cap Filing Season Expected – April 2-6 (Five Business Days); H-1B Lottery Likely
As we are going into the peak of the H-1B cap season, our office receives many inquiries about the duration of the H-1B filing season this year or, in other words, when will the H-1B cap be reached? So far we have been able to compare demand with prior H-1B filing seasons and we knew that this would be a very busy and very short H-1B filing season. According to our sources (which include clients, peer law firms and government agencies), we expect that the H-1B cap be reached in the first five business days of April with the number […]
H-4 EAD Update: Draft Program Rescission to be Announced in June 2018
February 2018 was a month which was highly anticipated by all following the H-4 EAD litigation which sought to challenge the H-4 EAD rule and, specifically, the anticipated introduction by USCIS of the proposed H-4 EAD rescission regulations. USCIS has filed an update to the court in the Save Jobs USA litigation where they essentially ask the court to hold the litigation until at least June 2018 when USCIS anticipates to be able to introduce a proposed H-4 EAD rescission rule. Essentially, the release of the H-4 EAD rescission rule is delayed until at least June 2018.
Earlier, […]
USCIS Appears to Question Immediate F-1 CPT Validity for Second Degree Students
Our office has been seeing cases and reports that USCIS is changing their approach and starts to question the validity of F-1 CPT work authorization especially in cases where the F-1 foreign student has used more than 12 months of combined CPT and OPT at the same degree level. Most often this issue is raised during an H-1B petition which includes change of status from F-1 to H-1B.
The Regulations and the Prior Practice
The relevant regulations are in 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(f)(10):
…A student may be authorized 12 months of practical training, and becomes eligible for another 12 months of practical training […]
March 2018 Visa Bulletin – Continued Very Slow Forward Movement Across Most Categories
The U.S. State Department has just released the March 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the continued very slow forward movement in EB-2/3 India. EB-3 China advances but appears to slow down compared to recent months.
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