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
USCIS Temporarily Suspends Premium Processing of H-1B CAP Petitions ONLY
USCIS has announced that effective April 2, 2018, they are temporarily suspending premium processing for H-1B cap petitions (only) until September 10, 2018. Please note that this suspension applies only to H-1B cap petitions filed under the annual H-1B cap season. All other H-1B petitions – such as extensions, transfers, amendments – continue to be eligible for premium processing service.
Premium Processing Unavailable for H-1B Cap Filings Only
Starting April 2, 2018 and until September 10, 2018, H-1B cap petitioners will not be able to file Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing Service, for […]
April 2018 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 India and China Major Retrogression; EB China and EB-3 Advance Significantly
The U.S. State Department has just released the April 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is major retrogression and the introduction of a cutoff date for EB-1 India and China. On the positive side, we see significant forward movement for EB-3 India and EB-2 and EB-3 China.
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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, […]