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
H-1B Cap Lottery Completed; Petitions Must Be Filed by June 30
Monday, March 25, 2024 was the last day of the new fiscal year’s H-1B “cap” lottery registration window and USCIS has just started (but as of this article not yet completed) updating the selection status of the selected cases. Additional selections may be added over the coming few days before the random allocation lottery for the available 85,000 H-1B work visas is completed.
USCIS has been notifying the selected registrants (via the attorney or employer who submitted the registration) — our office has seen a gradually-increasing number of registration alerts over the past few hours. It is anticipated that all notifications […]
April 2024 Visa Bulletin – (Finally) Notable Forward Movement in Employment-based Categories
The U.S. State Department has released the April 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is positive forward movement: notable forward movement in employment Final Action dates which should encourage I-485 approvals; in addition to using the Final Action dates for determining I-485 filings. […]
April 1, 2024 H-1B Filing Fee Increase Explanation and Breakdown
Many of our clients and readers are aware that the Department of Homeland Security is significantly increasing the USCIS filing fees starting April 1, 2024. We published a detailed alert for all of the fees (see details); however, for the benefit of our H-1B employer clients and readers, we also provide a detailed explanation and breakdown of the H-1B petition and accompanying H-4 filing fees since the new fee rule has created number of categories and fees depending on the type of employer. […]
March 2024 Visa Bulletin – Retrogression in I-485 Filing Eligibility
The U.S. State Department has released the March 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the anemic forward movement across most employment-based categories together with the fact that by using the Final Action Dates for March 2024, there is an effect a retrogression with respect to who can file I-485s during March 2024. […]