a fight with my lawyer

[livetolove 2]

I offer the following bitter gravy to cover up this foul tasting meat:

IF the attorney has ran through 100 cases going to Morocco,

and IF the attorney has successfuly answered over 200 RFEs (regardless of the country)

in the last 12 months

then I suggest you listen, for just a second, to the attorney.

But only for just a second.

Otherwise? Time to steamroll over the attorney, and have her/him/it do things the right way, just this once.

Answer all, pad all, write letters of attestation on every thing in the RFE, with backup and supporting evidence per letter.

Thank u all for your feedback....regarding my lawyer, she downplay every thing, i keep telling her the reason behind the RFE, which is the proxy marriage, the reason I had a proxy marriage is our relation started year 2003 and after 7 years of friendship, love and finally marriage (year 2010), i took a 2 weeks vacation from my job and travelled to Morocco to get married. My wife works for the Moroccan government security dept and her govenrment has to approve her marriage to a foreigner (me). She submitted the request and they ( the government) told her that they have have to do a background check and clear me first. This process took longer than we expected and as a result, I have to execute a power of attorney for a family friend in Morocco and have him sign the marriage certificate on behalf of me cause I cannot afford to fly back and forth 2 or three times a year.

I prepared and filed the petition by myself. When I got the RFE, I contacted this lawyer thinking that she will gather information from her coleages about RFE, instead she keeps telling me that I made some mistakes when I prepared the I-130 form and that's why I got a RFE( what she ment was a lawyer supposed to file the petition on behalf of me).

I visted my wife 3 times after marriage and stayed in different hotels and have all the evidence to prove that we had a shared evidence and marriage was subsequently consummated.............

I think sending 2 or three pounds of documents is safer than getting denied...................isnt it ?

[tany1157 161]

I say send it all...short and sweet. No one will really care about your future but you and your loved one. Do what you feel is right. We never used a lawyer because this was how we felt. Send it all, this is your chance. Good luck

[Lisamarie 79]

Exactly

It's a different set o stuff, when replying to an RFE, when the beneficiary is in Morocco AND the casefile has been with USCIS for 17 months . I'm sorry, I don't want to minimalize YOUR effort and YOUR work, but IMO, without fully understanding WHAT the OP is responding to (an RFE with all of the questions) your background with your casefile and your experience with your casefile is not comparable to the OP's casefile. I ask that you not try that comparison, again. It's a totally different set of circumstances, and is not fair to compare, when things are so different.