Attorney Representation - What Good Is Having One?

[Sayha or bust. 71]

Having an attorney for the visa process is like having an attorney for a speeding ticket! The attorney offers you the ability and opportunity to spend 100s, maybe even 1000s of dollars - or, maybe like taking all of this money and setting it on fire to complete a visa process that you and your "significant other" has to provide all the information for! The attorney offers the ability for a 3rd, unnecessary, person to make mistakes on your application process that could add unneeded and lengthy delays to the process. The attorney offers you the ability to spend unnecessary monies oh postage, travel to see the attorney, phone calls, frustration, and many, many other potential problems that you really don't need. But, then again, I didn't have $1800 to set on fire, uh pay an attorney, for my gals K1 visa and we did everything on our own.

That can happen without one too. Like I said if your not paperwork savvy or work 6 to 7 days a week like myself and don't have time then you should hire one. When I decided I was going to marry abroad I didn't do it on shoe string budget, I saved my money and worked 2 jobs. Hiring a lawyer was money well spent. You will get your horror stories from both sides of the coin.

[Sayha or bust. 71]

I know you mean well, but it really comes across as though you are equating love with the willingness to pay for a lawyer. People have a lot of different opinions about the necessity and advisability of legal representation for the K-1 process, and it probably irks you to have paid for a lawyer and then to see people ridiculing this route. That, however, is no reason to imply that those of us who haven't paid for lawyers love our fiance(e)s less than you do or to portray yourself as being superior somehow for having made the choice that you did.

He's not implying anything other than he loves his fiancee and hired a lawyer to play it safe. He's banking on the lawyer will do the paperwork correctly and without error.

[afoyoswa 178]

He's not implying anything other than he loves his fiancee and hired a lawyer to play it safe. He's banking on the lawyer will do the paperwork correctly and without error.

I'm not entirely sure what your post accomplishes, exactly, since you were not the one who wrote his post and therefore you have no way of knowing what he was or was not implying, but thanks for attempting to clarify. For that matter, I don't know what he was or wasn't implying, either, but it did not come across well to me.

[Sayha or bust. 71]

I'm not entirely sure what your post accomplishes, exactly, since you were not the one who wrote his post and therefore you have no way of knowing what he was or was not implying, but thanks for attempting to clarify. For that matter, I don't know what he was or wasn't implying, either, but it did not come across well to me.

I read the post also and that's what I interpreted. There was nothing from what I read that he was superior to you , me or anyone because he had hired a lawyer.

Edited March 28, 2012 by Sayha or bust.

[afoyoswa 178]

I read the post also and that's what I interpreted. There was nothing from what I read that he was superior to you , me or anyone because he had hired a lawyer.

Good for you! Isn't it amazing how we are all speaking the same language, and yet we can perceive written tone so very differently from each other? It's a big part of what makes online forums so delightful.

[Sayha or bust. 71]

Good for you! Isn't it amazing how we are all speaking the same language, and yet we can perceive written tone so very differently from each other? It's a big part of what makes online forums so delightful.

I totally agree with the latter part of your post. God speed with your Visa process and everyone who chooses how to handle their journey.

[Dan & Jenni 457]

Have a safe trip next week Dan.

i will... thank you my friend