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
November 2017 Visa Bulletin – Extremely Slow Forward Movement; EB-3 China Favors Downgrading
The U.S. State Department has just released the November 2017 Visa Bulletin which is the second Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the anemic forward movement in EB-2 India/China and no movement in EB-3 India. EB-3 China continues to have a more favorable cutoff date than EB-2 China which creates favorable conditions for EB-2 to EB-3 China downgrades.
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DV-2019 Diversity Visa (Green Card) Lottery Opens October 18, 2017 – REVISED DATES
The Department of State has revised the DV-2019 Diversity Visa (a.k.a. “green card”) lottery dates. The new dates for submission for this year’s lottery must be submitted electronically between noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Wednesday, October 18, 2017, and noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5), on Wednesday, November 22, 2017. Previously, the DV-2019 lottery was open starting October 3, 2017; however, due to a system glitch, any entries submitted between October 3, 2017 and October 10, 2017 are void and a new submission is required under the new timeline.
Applicants may access the electronic Diversity Visa entry form […]
Premium Processing Reinstated for All H-1B Cases as of October 3
USCIS has just officially confirmed as of today, October 3, 2017, they have reinstated the premium processing service for all types of H-1B petitions. Petitions filed under the premium processing service are given a response by USCIS within 15 calendar days. Similarly, pending “regular processing” H-1B petitions can be “upgraded” to premium processing service.
Caution: Avoid the Premium Processing Rush
We would like to caution our readers and clients to avoid rushing to file premium processing cases just because the service is available. Due to the pent-up demand for premium processing cases over the last few months, we expect a significant […]
Nonimmigrant Status 30/60 Day Rule Amended to Impose Stricter Requirements for “Inconsistent Conduct”
The U.S. Department of State (“DOS”) has amended a section of the Field Adjudicators Manual (“FAM”) which pertains to government officials’ determinations of misrepresentation by applicants and specifically with respect to activities permitted in the U.S. on nonimmigrant visas. 9 FAM 302.9-4(B)(3) has been amended to include a section called “Inconsistent Conduct Within 90 Days of Entry” and which creates a presumption of misrepresentation by a foreign national for certain conduct within 90 days of entering the U.S. This amendment replaces the prior 30/60 day rule.
What is “Inconsistent Conduct Within 90 Days of Entry”?
The new section allows an immigration […]