(Yet Another) Fire the Lawyer Thread

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Hello all,

My husband and I hired a lawyer that our families recommended to us. Initially we had put together an application for AOS using the information we had gotten through this site and others and were going to do it ourselves, but we listened to our family. We met with him on April 18th, handed him the file including all USCIS fees and half of his fee. We decided to give him the other half later, after the process had started. He said that he mailed it out May 10th but we haven't received an NOA1 yet. I knew something was off since June and asked about it here. He claimed that they had issued an RFE but that he was working on it. It turns out, he only recently mailed it and they received it last Monday, three months after we had hired him in the first place. We want to pull him from our case without causing anymore delays or problems for ourselves. He said if we come in, talk to him, and sign a release form he will give us a partial refund and my file back, but our family advised against this and thinks that we should hire another lawyer to go after the first one instead. We honestly do not know what to do. We don't have money to keep hiring more lawyers (I cannot work and I was hoping I'd be working already), but we also don't want to end up in a worse position than we are in now.

Hi. I am currently experiencing what you had with your lawyer. We signed all the forms and gave the lawyer all the checks for the filing fees on July 14 which is a thursday. We assumed that she send the packet the next day or the following monday. But up to now, we haven't got any NOAs at all. Yesterday she said that the USCIS received our application and that she check the tracking number. But I don't know if she is telling the truth cos I do not have the tracking number. She also said maybe there was a conflict when USCIS looked up to their system regarding my previous application that has been denied because even if it has been denied I will have the same A#. She said she will look up to my case and follow up. I just hope she is not lying to us.