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
May 2016 Visa Bulletin – Very Limited Forward Movement for EB India; Remaining EB Categories Remain Unchanged Slows Down
The U.S. State Department has just released the May 2016 Visa Bulletin which is the eighth Visa Bulletin for the FY2016 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack movements across the cutoff dates for many categories. EB-2 India’s forward movement is extremely minor and slowing down which suggests that the government is seeing sufficient demand in this category which should mean that we may not see giant forward leaps over the next few months. Out of the remaining notable EB categories, only EB-3 India moves forward.
Alert: FY2017 H-1B Cap Reached on April 7th
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced that, as of today, April 7th, they have received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to meet the annual H-1B cap for the 2017 fiscal year (FY2017). According to USCIS, they have received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions filed for beneficiaries with U.S. master’s degree and more than the 65,000 general H-1B cap petitions. As a result, any cap-subject H-1B petitions received by USCIS after April 7, 2016 will be rejected.
The Lottery Process
USCIS will use a computer-generated random selection process (commonly known as the “lottery”) for all FY 2017 cap-subject petitions received […]
April 2016 Visa Bulletin – Gradual Forward Movement for All; EB-2 India Slows Down
The U.S. State Department has just released the April 2016 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2016 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is lack of major movements across the cutoff dates for many categories. EB-2 India’s forward movement is very minor, suggesting that the government is seeing sufficient demand in this category which should mean that we may not see giant forward leaps over the next few months.
Very Short and Busy H-1B Cap Filing Season Expected: April 1st to April 7th (Five Business Days); H-1B Lottery Likely; Last Call for H-1B Cap
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 […]