Lawyer???Support letters???

[Vi Mazzella 4]

Hey Guys!!

. We are about to start this process, I would like to know if some of you hired a lawyer, I know that this is the easiest part of the process but my hubby wants to hire one, do you know about fees??. I'm sure that when I tell him the fees he will change his mind.

. Do the letters from my friends and family need to be notarized????

Thank you very much.... this web site is great!!!

Saludos

Vi

[boo boo 1]

Hey Guys!!

. We are about to start this process, I would like to know if some of you hired a lawyer, I know that this is the easiest part of the process but my hubby wants to hire one, do you know about fees??. I'm sure that when I tell him the fees he will change his mind.

. Do the letters from my friends and family need to be notarized????

Thank you very much.... this web site is great!!!

Saludos

Vi

I honestly do not think you need a lawyer, what process are you going thru? I have read many stories on VJ, where members said that they got a lawyer and it was a waste of their money....referring to $1200-$2000.....but that is just my personal opinion.

[JT4/25 38]

I don't think you need a lawyer if your case is pretty standard. I used one during my K-1 visa (of course before I knew of this website) and it was a total waste of 3500.00! In the end...I did all the work myself because I had to get my local Senator involved when they lost our paperwork!

I sent 2 letters from friends and they were not notarized. (we have not heard anything about it yet, though).

Good luck.

[Vi Mazzella 4]

Thank you guys fos your fast responses...

Yes, my hubby hired a lawyer for my CR1 process and we paid him about $2500, he wants to do that again but I keep telling him that this is the easiest part of the process (I-751) and we can handle it. I'm sure I will end doing all the work.

I read in one post that letters should have a notarized signature but some people sended it without it and everything went fine for them, should I take the risk??

thanks again..

vI

[Mr Zee 0]

No you don't need a Lawyer if you don't have a sticky situation. and yes you do need to notarize the letters. It says on the I-751 to have the letters "sworn to" that means notarized.

Now if you are a risk taker that's another issue, I wouldn't

good luck Vi

[meredith pa 0]

Hi

about the letters of affidavit....I see a lot of people saying that there is no need to notarize, but

yes, I undersand that a Affidavit sworn and affirmed, must be notarized ...

I sent two affidavits notarazied, because that is the minimun they request...and One that wasn't notarized because my neighboor didn't have time to go to notarize...

And about lawyers....In my opinion, if you have money, and if you have a really great lawyer, I see no problem with that... But, in my case we have don't our process without lawyer from the beginning...

Meredith.

No you don't need a Lawyer if you don't have a sticky situation. and yes you do need to notarize the letters. It says on the I-751 to have the letters "sworn to" that means notarized.

Now if you are a risk taker that's another issue, I wouldn't

good luck Vi

[lucyrich 20]

We used a lawyer for the initial visa (had some complicating issues and at the time we didn't really know what we were doing), but no lawyer for the I-751. The lawyer who did our visa called to remind us about the removal of conditions, and asked if we wanted to use his services for the I-751, but we said no thanks, and he agreed that we wouldn't have a problem.

If you make minor mistakes on the I-751 that delay things, the delay is unlikely to be as critical as the delay for a visa. The I-751 approval doesn't give you any new rights you didn't already have, so within limits, it's not so important when it's approved.

The worst thing that's likely to happen is you'll be called for an interview, and that should be an easy thing to deal with if it happens. So go ahead and do it yourself if that's what you want to do.

As for affidavits, there's no absolute need to include them at all. We didn't, and we were just approved. Do a search of this forum for the word "affidavit", and you'll see plenty of discussion on the point. Usually, a typical married couple who's been living together in a bona fide marriage for two years has accumulated enough other types of solid evidence that their case is approvable whether or not they include affidavits. An un-notarized letter from a friend probably carries very little weight (it would be very easy for a fraudulent couple to fake one of these), so if you're going to the trouble of including affidavits, they should probably be notarized.

[Yodrak 7]

zmyal,

No, that's not what it means. It means that the people who write the affidavits should include some legally magical words to the effect that what they have written in the truth. Words similar the the certification statement in Part 6 of the I-751.

Yodrak

...... It says on the I-751 to have the letters "sworn to" that means notarized. .....