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
The University of Northern New Jersey Story and Importance of Good F-1 Student Habits
Many of our readers are aware of the University of Northern New Jersey story from early April 2016 where federal agents arrested and charged a number of individuals described as brokers, recruiters and employers with conspiracy to commit visa fraud, among other charges. The university, which turned out to be a fake institution set-up by federal authorities, was shut down and a multitude of enrolled F-1 foreign students were left without status in the United States. This article seeks to describe the lessons and the importance for F-1 students seeking to maintain status, especially under the F-1 CPT program.
Alert: FY2017 H-1B Cap Demand Among Highest Ever; Random Lottery Just Completed
Our office just learned that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has completed the intake and processing of all of the fiscal year (FY2017) H-1B cap petitions. According to USCIS, there were over 236,000 H-1B cap petitions filed during the April 1st-7th filing period. This indicates that the number of H-1B cap filings this year is almost the same as the number of H-1B cap filings during last year’s cap season (233,000); nonetheless, this marks historically high H-1B cap demand.
The Lottery Has Been Completed
USCIS also just announced that they have just completed the computer-generated random selection process, or lottery, […]
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 […]