The federal government has been shut down as of October 1, 2025. We are providing details on the immigration-related services that are impacted by the shutdown. The biggest impact for employment-immigration matters is disruption in DOL services via FLAG [...]
USCIS has just announced that in an effort to protect its workforce and the public amidst the Coronavirus/Covid-19 outbreak, they are suspending all routine face-to-face services with applicants at all offices, including all interviews and naturalization ceremonies. April 24, 2020 Update: USCIS has extended the closure to be at least until June 4th, until further [...]
The Department of Labor has provided some updates for the first quarter of the Fiscal Year 2014 (October 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013) on their processing of PERM cases and we are happy to share them with our clients and readers. Please note that this period reflects the period of the partial government shutdown [...]
As an E-Verify designated agent, the Capitol Immigration Law Group handles the E-Verify processing for many employers and we would like to pass on some important post-government shutdown E-Verify information to our clients and to all companies who are working with E-Verify. Most importantly, USCIS has confirmed that the E-Verify system is now back online [...]
