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
October 2017 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 and EB-2 ROW Current Again; First Bulletin for New Fiscal Year
The U.S. State Department has just released the October 2017 Visa Bulletin which is the first Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is fact that this is the first bulletin for the new fiscal year. EB-1 and EB-2 ROW are current again while EB-2 India and China advance very slowly. EB-3 China advance significantly 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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Trump Administration to End DACA – What Does That Mean for Employers?
On September 5, 2017, the Trump administration announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program will end. DACA will remain in place until March 5, 2018 and the program will be phased out over the next two years.
DACA Revocation Details
The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) has released details and clarifications regarding the revocation of the DACA program. The key points of the revocation are:
- DHS will process initial requests for DACA and work authorization received on or before September 5, 2017 – in other words, all submitted and pending requests will be processed;
- DHS will not […]
USCIS to Start Requiring In-Person Interviews for Employment I-485 Applications
USCIS has just announced that they are expanding the requirements for interviews to employment-based I-485 adjustment of status applicants. Effective October 1, 2017, USCIS will phase-in interviews for (1) employment-based I-485 adjustment of status applications and (2) refugee/asylee I-730 applications who are in the United States and petitioning to join a principal applicant. Under current practice, interviews for employment-based I-485 applicants are waived except in certain very limited cases.
Trump Executive Order
This change complies with Executive Order 13780, “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” and is part of USCIS’s “comprehensive strategy to further improve […]
Pending I-131 Advance Parole Applications Being Denied Due to International Travel
Our office has recently learned that USCIS is changing their long-standing practice and have started denying Form I-131 Advance Parole applications due to abandonment in cases where the applicant has left the United States while the I-131 Advance Parole application was pending. USCIS has confirmed that this is their actual current policy going forward and that it would apply even for applicants who have a separate valid advance parole document or a valid H, K, L, or V visa to return to the United States.
Reason for Denial of Pending I-131 Advance Parole Due to International Travel
In the […]