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 a Multitude of RFEs on Pending I-485 Applications
Many of our clients and readers are already aware of the move by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) to issue what are hundreds, or perhaps even thousands, of very similar, if not identical, requests for evidence (“RFE”) on pending employment-based primary Form I-485, Application to Adjust Status, cases (mostly for EB-2 India applicants). Our office has been receiving such RFEs and we have been hearing from readers and clients who have also been affected by this large-scale RFE event. We have seen similar RFE flood waves in the past and many EB-2 India applicants may have seen two or […]
U.S. Implements Changes to the Visa Waiver Program
As of January 21st, 2016, the U.S. began implementing changes under the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 (the Act). Under the Act, travelers in the following categories are no longer eligible to travel or be admitted to the United States under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP):
- Nationals of VWP countries who have traveled to or been present in Iran, Iraq, Sudan, or Syria on or after March 1, 2011 (with limited exceptions for travel for diplomatic or military purposes in the service of a VWP country).
- Nationals of VWP countries who are also nationals of Iran, […]
STEM OPT Rule Update: DHS Has Until May 10, 2016 to Implement New STEM OPT Rule
In a much-anticipated decision dated January 23, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia sided with the Department of Homeland Security’s request for extension to extend the vacatur of the current STEM OPT rule which was struck down on August 12, 2015. The current STEM OPT rule continues to remain valid until May 10, 2016 which should hopefully give USCIS sufficient time to implement the new replacement STEM OPT rule.
Background of the STEM OPT Rule Litigation and Replacement Rule
USCIS is currently undergoing a rulemaking process for a new STEM OPT rule. The sole reason […]
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.