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 Medical Exam Policy Change: I-693 Medical Exams Valid Indefinitely
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) have just announced a change in their policy regarding the validity period of a Form I-693, Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record, when filed in support of a Form I-485 Adjustment of Status Application.
Effective immediately and for all medical exams signed by the civil surgeon after November 1, 2023, USCIS will consider the I-693 medical exam valid indefinitely. For medical exams signed before November 1, 2023, the validity term will remain two years from the date of the civil surgeon signature. […]
May 2024 Visa Bulletin – Employment-based Dates Unchanged
The U.S. State Department has released the May 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the eighth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of any meaningful movement across any of the employment-based categories. […]
USCIS Extends EAD Auto-Extension to 540 Days: What You Need to Know
USCIS has just released a new new temporary final rule (link to rule) effective as of April 8, 2024 pursuant to which the EAD auto-extension period is increased (again) from up to 180 days to up to 540 days from the expiration date stated on their EADs. This increase will be available to eligible renewal applicants with pending Forms I-765 as of April 8, 2024 based on EAD renewal applications filed on or after October 27, 2023 through September 30, 2025. […]
H-1B Alternatives: What Are The Available Visa Options?
Many of our readers are aware that as of April 1, 2024, USCIS had received number (not announced yet) of H-1B cap registrations which is sufficient to fill the annual H-1B quota and they have completed the random lottery to allocate the available visa numbers. Selected registrants should already have been notified. We wanted to provide an overview of the alternative visa options for those H-1B employers and employees whose H-1Bs did not get selected under the H-1B cap lottery. […]