WASHINGTON, DC, September 20, 2012 -- The Capitol Immigration Law Group PLLC has been named "Boutique Immigration Law, Firm of the Year in Washington D.C." by Corporate INTL Magazine Global Awards 2012 for the firm's excellence in corporate and business immigration expertise and service. "The Capitol Immigration Law Group has one of the leading Immigration [...]
The Department of State will open the DV-2014 Diversity Visa (a.k.a. “green card”) lottery on Tuesday, October 2, 2012. The entries for this year’s lottery must be submitted electronically between noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Tuesday, October 2, 2012, and noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5), Saturday, November 3, 2012. Applicants may access [...]
Our office has established a reputation as one of the leading practices for handling appeals with the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) and we often receive inquiries not only about the procedural aspects of an AAO appeal but also about the current processing times for AAO cases. The AAO processing times are published monthly, at the [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the October 2012 Visa Bulletin which is the first Visa Bulletin for the FY2013 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s bulletin is the availability of a number of categories, including EB-2 India and China, in addition to the significant retrogression in the EB-2 India category [...]
We are very pleased to announce that Ms. Aleksandra Michailov, Esq. has joined the Capitol Immigration Law Group team as Immigration Attorney. Aleksandra brings with her a wealth of immigration knowledge and more than eight years of immigration experience that will greatly benefit all of our clients and friends. The focus of Aleksandra’s practice is [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the September 2012 Visa Bulletin which is the last Visa Bulletin for the FY2012 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s bulletin is the continued unavailability in the EB-2 India and China categories (which is expected to become available in next month's visa bulletin), the unchanged [...]
The U.S. House of Representatives passed yesterday (August 1, 2012) by a voice vote a proposed bill which seeks to restrict the ability of certain schools, colleges and universities to sponsor students' F-1 visas. H.R. 3012 (bill tracker, text of bill) was introduced by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and seeks to amend the F-1 student [...]
The Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed substantial revisions to Form 9035 (and its instructions), Labor Condition Application, which is used to support a number of employment-based visas, including H-1B, H-1B1 and E-3. The proposed changes to the form are significant in many respects -- the government now requires all LCA beneficiaries (up to 10 [...]
USCIS has released an updated set of processing statistics for petitions filed under the fifth employment-based preference category (EB-5) for foreign investors. It is interesting to note that the number of I-526 applications (for initial EB-5 green card) have more than doubled compared to 2010 (4,156 compared to 1,955) while the approval rate has remained [...]
Our office has established a reputation as one of the leading practices for handling appeals with the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) and we often receive inquiries not only about the procedural aspects of an AAO appeal but also about the current processing times for AAO cases. The AAO processing times are published monthly, at the [...]