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
US Appeals Court Creates a Notification Right to Affected Parties Prior to I-140 Revocation
In a December 30, 2015 opinion, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has handed a decision (Mantena v. Johnson) which requires USCIS to provide notice of its intent to revoke an immigrant I-140 petition to certain parties who may be affected by the I-140 revocation. Specifically, this notification provision would apply to beneficiaries of an approved I-140 petition who have been able to file an I-485 adjustment of status application and who have subsequently used the AC21 portability provisions to port the I-485 to a new employer. The notification may also extend to the new employer as well.
I-140 Portability/EAD Draft Rule Released – Analysis and Overview of the Proposed Changes and System Fixes
On November 17, 2016, USCIS released the final version of this rule.
On December 31, 2015 USCIS released a draft of the proposed and long-awaited rule seeking to improve certain aspects of the employment-based immigration system. The proposed rule seeks to implement certain changes to the non-immigrant and immigrant visas in order to better allow US employers to retain foreign workers. The proposed rule also provides increased flexibility to foreign workers, especially from India and China, during their U.S. employment-based immigration process. […]
February 2016 Visa Bulletin – Filing Cutoff Dates Remain Largely Unchanged; Very Gradual Movement in the Approval Dates; EB-2 India Advances by Seven Months GalleryFebruary 2016 Visa Bulletin – Filing Cutoff Dates Remain Largely Unchanged; Very Gradual Movement in the Approval Dates; EB-2 India Advances by Seven Months
February 2016 Visa Bulletin – Filing Cutoff Dates Remain Largely Unchanged; Very Gradual Movement in the Approval Dates; EB-2 India Advances by Seven Months
The U.S. State Department has just released the February 2016 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth Visa Bulletin for the FY2016 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of any substantive movement in the Filing cutoff dates section of the Visa Bulletin, possibly caused by the October 2015 Visa Bulletin revisions and litigation. The good news is that the Final Action cutoff dates advance gradually for most categories, including EB-2 India which sees another notable forward movement. […]
U.S. Consular Officers Told To Enforce Simeio H-1B Amendment Requirements
In response to the changed H-1B petition amendment requirements following the Simeio decision, the U.S. State Department has circulated a cable to U.S. Consulates worldwide with specific guidance to consular officers on how to address H-1B visa stamping petitions where there is change of employment. While the cable does not create new policies, it specifically instructs consular officers to deny H-1B visa stamp applications which are not in compliance with Simeio.
Simeio Decision Background
The April 9, 2015 AAO decision In Matter of Simeio Solutions, LLC (PDF copy) put many H-1B employers who place H-1B workers at third-party worksites in […]