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
H-1B Alternatives: What Are The Available Visa Options?
Many of our readers are aware that as of April 1, 2024, USCIS had received number (not announced yet) of H-1B cap registrations which is sufficient to fill the annual H-1B quota and they have completed the random lottery to allocate the available visa numbers. Selected registrants should already have been notified. We wanted to provide an overview of the alternative visa options for those H-1B employers and employees whose H-1Bs did not get selected under the H-1B cap lottery. […]
H-1B Cap Lottery Completed; Petitions Must Be Filed by June 30
USCIS has announced that they have received and selected sufficient number of H-1B “cap” registrations for the available 85,000 H-1B work visas. As a result, the H-1B cap registration selection period has been completed and all selected registrants (via their employer or attorney) have been notified.
This year there were 470,342 eligible registrations (down from 759,994 last year) for 442,000 unique beneficiaries (down from 446,000 last year). USCIS has selected 114,017 beneficiaries for the available 85,000 cap numbers (down from 188,400 last year) making for a general selection rate of approximately 25% of all eligible registrants. […]
April 2024 Visa Bulletin – (Finally) Notable Forward Movement in Employment-based Categories
The U.S. State Department has released the April 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is positive forward movement: notable forward movement in employment Final Action dates which should encourage I-485 approvals; in addition to using the Final Action dates for determining I-485 filings. […]
April 1, 2024 H-1B Filing Fee Increase Explanation and Breakdown
Many of our clients and readers are aware that the Department of Homeland Security is significantly increasing the USCIS filing fees starting April 1, 2024. We published a detailed alert for all of the fees (see details); however, for the benefit of our H-1B employer clients and readers, we also provide a detailed explanation and breakdown of the H-1B petition and accompanying H-4 filing fees since the new fee rule has created number of categories and fees depending on the type of employer. […]