Did you use a lawyer during your immigration process?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I voted yes because technically I did pay one. $100 for an initial consult. I never saw him or paid him after that.

[Marilyn. 340]

I wish I would have found VJ sooner... we could have saved ourselves a lot of money....

[Sister Fracas 5]

nope, and we filed before I found VJ.

[lirachadsbaby 0]

nope. way too expensive

[Lisa and Spence 0]

There is no need for a lawyer when you can fill out the forms yourself. Just take your time and fill them out correctly and gather the information they ask for.

The hardest part of the entire process was the waiting.

Lisa

[BelwinMills 0]

who needs a lawyer when u have VJ!!!!

[GaryC 7]

I had one. Wasted $2000. A week after my check cleared I found VJ. The way I see it the lawyer cost us a 6 month wait. I sent all our stuff in to the lawyer in febuary and he wasted a bunch of time sending it in. It got to them 1 week after the IMBRA law took effect. If I had done it myself I could have avoided the whole thing. Oh well, live and learn.

[panamania79 2]

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[Enlighten one :) 5]

I fired him last week and demanded a partial refund. I told him that if we did not get a fear refund I would make a website telling everyone about my immigration lawyer experience and tell them about VISAJOURNEY where thousands of people have successfully completed their own paper work and get it done quicker then an immigration lawyer.

[Zee Bee 61]

I was actually doing some research about immigration lawyers when I found VJ

Then I forgot about my lawyer research

[Amby 490]

no lawyer for us. our case was easy and uncomplicated. we might have considered it if we had major problems with the process.

[rebeccajo 14]

This is a DIY site. Did you expect a different result for the poll?

Very very risky advice in this thread. Except for VJTroll's post.

WE ARE NOT IMMIGRATION EXPERTS! This site does NOT replace experienced counsel. It's right on the damn home page.

[Jason-Sasha 1]

Luckily we had VJ before we began. So, no.

[♥Sora_9_Dam3a♥ 0]

hiring a lawyer didn't even cross our mind....after we got married in egypt, we went to the american embassy to start the paperwork--we had absolutely nooooo idea what we were doing...

some guy outside the embassy went in and got us an application and told us to go home, fill it out, and call to make an appointment....so we went home, read it, and found out that we couldn't file directly from egypt....

confused as hell, we got on the internet and went to the site that was on the application...we took a quick look and figured we'd worry about it when i got back to the US....after getting back, i started reading the uscis site and a month later had the I-130 sent out...

while i was waiting for that to be approved, i found out that a friend of mine was working for an immigration lawyer and she told me should could get me a good deal--$500.....she scared the ####### out of me....telling me that it was going to take forever without a lawyer and whatnot....i was worried for a little while and before i knew it, the petition was approved....and i realized, it wasn't as hard as it seemed....

wow, i'm just rambling on... ...do anything to get away from the books!!

anyway, NO, we didn't use a lawyer, there's no reason to...

[Darren&Laura 3]

When myself and my partner were initially discussing applying for a K1, we mistakenly thought that a lawyer might be able to pull strings unavailable to us to speed the process up. A quick scan of the web showed that this wasn't the case and so long as we were thorough in our application there was no need to hire a lawyer.

Then we found Visa Journey and the fabulous community of people on here and any remaining thoughts of hiring a lawyer were forgotten.

I'd rather take advice from people that have gone through the process and solved their own issues than someone with a law book.