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
USCIS Issues Policy Guidance on Simeio H-1B Compliance When Changing Worksites
The April 9, 2015 AAO decision In Matter of Simeio Solutions, LLC (PDF copy) put many H-1B employers (mainly those who place H-1B workers at third-party worksites) in a position to scramble and assess their current level of compliance with the H-1B regulations, as they would be interpreted by USCIS in accordance with the Simeio Solutions decision. Earlier, on May 27, 2015, USCIS issued a draft policy memorandum attempting to provide some widely-anticipated guidance on when an H-1B is required together with a deadline of August 19, 2015 for compliance. However, in a July […]
Capitol Immigration Law Group Recognized for Excellence in Employee-Based Immigration – USA
We are thrilled and honored to be chosen for the 2015 Global Mobility and Immigration Awards by Acquisition International and be recognized with an Award for Excellence in Employee-Based Immigration – USA.
Firms included in the 2015 Global Mobility, Immigration and Logistics Awards list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. The criteria for this award, according to Acquisition International, includes “
“rigorous research and judging process that has seen our dedicated and experienced in-house team investigate in great detail, all nominations, all supplied third-party information, your sector, the global […]
USCIS: H-1B Premium Processing Available Again Effective Immediately
USCIS has just announced that effective today, July 13, 2017, they are resuming accepting Form I-907 premium processing service requests for all H-1B petitions. Previously, in mid-May, USCIS had announced that they are suspending the premium processing service for certain H-1B extension or transfer petitions until July 27, 2015 and we are glad to see that USCIS has been able to resume the premium processing service two weeks earlier than planned.
Background of the H-1B Premium Processing Suspension
The premium processing service for certain H-1B petitions (those requesting extension of stay – most notably, H-1B extensions and H-1B transfers) was suspended […]
August 2015 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 India Remains Unchanged, EB-3 India Advances Notably while EB-3 China Faces Major Retrogression
The U.S. State Department has just released the August 2015 Visa Bulletin which is the eleventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2015 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of any movement in EB-2 India, the notable forward movement in EB-3 India and the major retrogression in EB-3 China.
Summary of the August 2015 Visa Bulletin – Employment-Based (EB)
Below is a summary of the August 2015 […]