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
A Return to 2021? Why the New Immigrant Visa Ban Signals Historic Forward Movement for EB Backlogs
The Department of State recently announced a significant update regarding immigrant visa processing. Effective January 21, 2026, the government has paused all immigrant visa issuances for nationals of over 70 countries deemed at “high risk of U.S. public benefits reliance.” While this suspension disrupts family-based and diversity visa migration for the affected countries, it is expected to have a profound, indirect benefit for Employment-Based (EB) green card applicants—particularly those from heavily backlogged countries like India and China—by drastically increasing the number of available EB visas in the coming fiscal year.
Below, we detail the specifics of the recent […]
Guide to “Successor in Interest” for Employment-Based Green Cards/I-140 Petitions
In the modern corporate landscape, mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations are routine. However, when a company undergoes restructuring, the immigration status of its sponsored foreign workers can be put at risk.
To prevent corporate changes from invalidating an employee’s approved PERM Labor Certification or Form I-140 petition, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) allows a new corporate entity to take over the green card sponsorship if it qualifies as a “Successor-in-Interest” (SII).
The rules governing this process are rooted in a combination of Department of Labor (DOL) delegations, administrative case law, and pivotal USCIS policy memorandums—most notably the August […]
March 2026 Visa Bulletin – Significant Forward Movement Across EB Categories
The U.S. State Department has released the March 2026 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in this month’s Visa Bulletin is the significant forward movement across several employment-based categories compared to February 2026. The most notable advancements are found in the EB-2 category for the “Rest of World” (ROW) and India, as well as positive movement for both India and China in the EB-1 category.
The significant forward movement across multiple immigrant visa categories in the March 2026 Visa Bulletin is directly attributed to decreased visa issuance rates from certain countries […]
H-1B Cap Season – 14 Common Misconceptions
With the FY 2027 H-1B cap registration window opening on March 4, 2026, employers and candidates are navigating a landscape defined by the new Wage-Weighted Selection Process and the Beneficiary-Centric model (see our full alert). Reliance on “common knowledge” from previous years is now a significant liability. Below, we address the top 14 misconceptions—expanded to include industry-specific and operational myths—to help you prepare for the upcoming season. […]