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
March 2024 Visa Bulletin – Retrogression in I-485 Filing Eligibility
The U.S. State Department has released the March 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the anemic forward movement across most employment-based categories together with the fact that by using the Final Action Dates for March 2024, there is an effect a retrogression with respect to who can file I-485s during March 2024. […]
USCIS Changes H-1B Cap Registration Lottery Selection Process to Be Beneficiary-Centric
In a new final rule USCIS is changing the process it selects H-1B cap registrants during the annual “cap” lottery selection process. Starting with this year, the new process will be based on “beneficiary-centric” selection which means that each H-1B cap beneficiary will be counted and have only one lottery registration entry regardless of how many independent H-1B cap registrations they may have submitted in good faith by different employers. […]
USCIS Increases Filing Fees Starting April 1, 2024
The Department of Homeland Security has just released the final rule that significantly changes the USCIS fee schedule, including adding new fees, establishing multiple fees for nonimmigrant worker petitions and increasing the premium processing time limit. The rule and the new fees will become effective on April 1, 2024.
The highlights of the final rule are: significant filing fee increase for I-485 applicants and especially the additional fee for EAD/AP applications; higher and additional fees for I-129 and I-140 petitions; premium processing will take 15 calendar (and not business) days; and the H-1B cap registration fee will increase […]
How to File an H-1B Cap Petition When the Current Degree is Still Underway?
As the H-1B cap filing season is well underway and as the first filing day of March 1st is approaching fast, a common question by H-1B employers or H-1B candidates is whether an H-1B cap petition can (or should) be filed when the foreign national employee is still completing their degree program. This is very common for foreign students who are graduating in the spring (normally May) but have an employer and are willing to apply for an H-1B under the H-1B “cap” lottery which opens on March 1st.
There is good news and a number of options to make […]