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
New Rules Establish Automatic Employment Authorization based on Pending EAD Renewal Application
As part of a set of rule changes, collectively called “Retention of EB–1, EB–2, and EB–3 Immigrant Workers and Program Improvements Affecting High-Skilled Nonimmigrant Workers” (see our full analysis) and effective as of January 17, 2017, USCIS has made some significant and welcome changes to the way it treats work authorization document (EAD) renewals and allows for automatic work authorization based on a pending EAD renewal application in certain cases.
Update: a temporary 540-day extension term is in place from May 2020 to October 2023.
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USCIS Creates 60-day Grace Period Following Termination of Employment for H-1Bs (and Others)
As part of a set of rule changes, collectively called “Retention of EB–1, EB–2, and EB–3 Immigrant Workers and Program Improvements Affecting High-Skilled Nonimmigrant Workers” (see our full analysis) and effective as of January 17, 2017, USCIS introduced a very favorable and notable change to the way H-1B (and certain other work visa holders) are treated following termination of employment: a grace period of up to 60 days. […]
March 2017 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 India Moves Forward; EB-3 China Advances Significantly
The U.S. State Department has just released the March 2017 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the FY2017 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the significant (six months) forward movement in EB-3 China which continues to create a significant opportunity for EB-2 to EB-3 China downgrades and I-485 filings. EB-2 India advances slightly as well.
Executive Order Suspends (at Least Parts of) the Visa Interview Waiver “Dropbox” Program
There has been a tremendous amount of discussion and comment on President Trump’s executive order banning certain travelers from the seven countries; however, one provision of the executive order which has a significant impact on many visa holders from all countries is the suspension of the interview waiver program (commonly called “dropbox”) which allows visa stamp renewals to be processed as U.S. consulates abroad without having to appear for a personal interview. However, based on the exceptions in the executive order and in the Immigration and Nationality Act, at this time, a notable number of visa stamp applications […]