We are fast approaching the 90 day window to apply to remove the conditions of residence for my wife.
We were thinking about paying a paralegal to help us with our package, but their fee is $700, and the only way I can swing that is to go into debt on a high interest credit card. I just don't have this kind of money right now.
As it is we still have to come up with the $545 USCIS fee.
The thing is we would like peace of mind - to have "professionals" do it.
When my wife got her initial green card she was denied at first, because I had lost my job...and our paralegal at the time failed to advise us to get a cosponsor. I got the cosponsor's paperwork to the counter at the Garden City USCIS by the deadline that the woman gave us, but they probably screwed up and did not deliver it to the person that was doing our case. It was an ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE trying to get them to acknowledge that we gave them the cosponsor's paperwork in time and get them to reverse there decision.
We DON'T want to go through ANYTHING like that again.
But we cannot really afford to pay for a paralegal this time.
BESIDES THAT, my father INSISTS that if I'm careful it should be a piece of cake to fill out the form and compile everything we need anyway. He actually finds it kind of foolish that I am not just doing this myself.
Is it true? Is it easy to fill out this / these forms and compile / organize all required things ourselves?
Does anyone have a checklist of sorts, or an excellent website they can recommend with a perfect checklist for everything needed with the I-751?
Taxes - do they require state taxes or just transcripts of our joint Federal taxes?
Any and all help would be TREMENDOUSLY appreciated!
Originally posted by ProudUSC: Click here, Tim. These are the step-by-step guidelines for filing the I-751. Good luck to you and your wife.
Holy Mother Lord...This is the same guy who was bad mouthing you in the past. He is dirt bag illegal finding a way in by exploiting you. Here is the link before he deletes it, I will ***p it up.
We are fast approaching the 90 day window to apply to remove the conditions of residence for my wife.
We were thinking about paying a paralegal to help us with our package, but their fee is $700, and the only way I can swing that is to go into debt on a high interest credit card. I just don't have this kind of money right now.
As it is we still have to come up with the $545 USCIS fee.
The thing is we would like peace of mind - to have "professionals" do it.
When my wife got her initial green card she was denied at first, because I had lost my job...and our paralegal at the time failed to advise us to get a cosponsor. I got the cosponsor's paperwork to the counter at the Garden City USCIS by the deadline that the woman gave us, but they probably screwed up and did not deliver it to the person that was doing our case. It was an ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE trying to get them to acknowledge that we gave them the cosponsor's paperwork in time and get them to reverse there decision.
We DON'T want to go through ANYTHING like that again.
But we cannot really afford to pay for a paralegal this time.
BESIDES THAT, my father INSISTS that if I'm careful it should be a piece of cake to fill out the form and compile everything we need anyway. He actually finds it kind of foolish that I am not just doing this myself.
Is it true? Is it easy to fill out this / these forms and compile / organize all required things ourselves?
Does anyone have a checklist of sorts, or an excellent website they can recommend with a perfect checklist for everything needed with the I-751?
Taxes - do they require state taxes or just transcripts of our joint Federal taxes?
Any and all help would be TREMENDOUSLY appreciated!
Hey fraudster isn't this such a **** S$it you are talking about. You have been on this forum for quite a while and know you are acting like a pimp of being scared of getting caught of your wrong doing.
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Democrats - Brave enough to KILL our unborn, just NOT our ENEMIES!
ProudUSC has gone through some kind of positive transformation since she was first here - we're cool now!
By the way, I'm a US citizen by birth and a veteran so show some respect!
cristina, my wife was initially denied because I lost my job and told them that, when asked, at our interview. But it's more complex than that. The lady gave us a few days to get a cosponsor and all required paperwork - and I got it to the USCIS PREMISES in time, but the a$$#ole at the counter refused to let us see the lady we did the interview with, and PROMISED to forward the paperwork to her. I'm CERTAIN the guy F'd it up and did not forward it in time, causing interviewer to decline my wife. It took MONTHS and many visits to USCIS to get them to make it right - while my wife was essentially stuck here while her Mom was VERY sick in Colombia. They FINALLY corrected what I consider their mistake - even though they said that EVEN WITH a cosponsor they could decline me since I was unemployed at the time. My wife got her green card and went to Colombia and her mother died of cancer within 3 weeks.
We also had what I think was a LAZY paralegal, who did not suggest a cosponsor when I informed her that I lost my job. Perhaps she did not want to do extra paperwork and was hoping that I would just play it as if I still had my job at the interview. But I am honest, especially when it comes to the government, and I made it clear to her that I would not lie about my employment situation if I was asked about it. She SHOULD have known we would need a cosponsor before our interview. Eventually she helped us scramble to get our cosponsor's paperwork together by the deadline they gave us at the USCIS, but I just told you how that turned out.
Are you in NY? I know AV rated immigration attorney in tristate area, was recognized as top 5% in 2006 and 2008. But, aside from ratings, I can personally attest that you will hardly find an attorney as honest and competent as him nowdays. It won't cost you much to hire his services. If interested let me know, I would PM you his office address and phone #.
Yeah, the fee that is being charged ($700) at the place we are currently in touch with is quite outrageous. Especially when you consider they are doing many of these and could probably do them in their sleep.
All they do is basically sit down with us, very briefly, a few times, tell us EXACTLY what we need to give them, fill out ONE (?) form, compile and check off what we give them, and charge us $700???
You people, though obviously not all, talk WAY more about bull$#!t here than you do what this website was designed for. This place really needs a monitor or two.
Anyone know of a more serious immigration related forum in which I can go get REAL information and have to sift through FAR LESS nonsense to find it?
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Originally posted by timmy_d11: Yes, I am Westchester County.
Yeah, the fee that is being charged ($700) at the place we are currently in touch with is quite outrageous. Especially when you consider they are doing many of these and could probably do them in their sleep.
All they do is basically sit down with us, very briefly, a few times, tell us EXACTLY what we need to give them, fill out ONE (?) form, compile and check off what we give them, and charge us $700???
What does your guy charge?
He is not "my guy", in case you are asking about an immigratiopn attorney I was mentioning. What he charges depends on how much work he has to do on your behalf and that can only be determined when you tell him what your issue is. They used to charge $75 for an hour of consultation, very low fee for an AV rated attorney and one who is not an overrated sleazebag but one who will really take time, listen, analyze and suggest you the best possible course of action, with 30+ years of experience in Courtrooms and filing all kind of petitions for their clients.
If you want to visit a moderated forum where they have lots of threads concerning specific immigration issues then I suggest you to visit the forum at www.immigration.com
Originally posted by timmy_d11: You people, though obviously not all, talk about WAY more about bull$#!t here than you do what this website was designed for. This place really needs a monitor or two.
Anyone know of a more serious immigration related forum in which I can go get REAL information and have to sift through FAR LESS nonsense to find it?
Hi Tim,
immigrate2us.net is a good forum with nice people. I've also found good information on visajourney.com (although, I don't look at the discussion forum on that one - just the information). My brother-in-law is going through AOS right now with his wife and I pulled the information from visajourney and he was able to file all the paperwork without using an attorney.
Ok, forms are sufficiently simple to fill out and require 30-45 mins to get a good grasp of (if you have never filled anything like it before). And, hopefully, you don't miss any question, do everything accurately and all.
Now, let's all agree that USCIS employee is ABOVE ALL a Human being. So, nothing Human is alien to them. Just because they are USCIS employees doesn't mean they are Robots.
Now what if your file ,by chance accident, lands on desk of someone who is just lazy to look at it? What if that person, not even a USCIS officer but some contractor, by mistake loses your file or the paperwork that is necessary to be submitted by certain deadline?
What if your case gets denied due to such error? Don't tell me it's impossible to happen. As I said no one is a Robot.
So, what will you do when you get an order of deportation due to failure to submit what was required? What proof will you have, other than yourself stating so, that everything was done on time and properly?
Think of all the headache you would have to endure to overcome such circumstance, if you could at all.
Now, I can agree that there is a very slim likelyhood of anything like that taking place.
Whatever ****head. You haven't given any advice and I haven't insulted anybody until just now. I've read things you have written and you contribute nothing useful to this forum.
And OldE you did beat around the bush and I asked you point blank and politely; if a lawyer or paralegal does our I-751 package does that make it any less likely that these human imperfect USCIS workers or contractors misplace our paperwork? I think it's a valid question and you HAVE NOT answered it.
Don't have to answer it if you don't want to, of course, just don't act like you made something clear when you really did not clarify.
Originally posted by timmy_d11: And OldE you did beat around the bush and I asked you point blank and politely; if a lawyer or paralegal does our I-751 package does that make it any less likely that these human imperfect USCIS workers or contractors misplace our paperwork? I think it's a valid question and you HAVE NOT answered it.
Don't have to answer it if you don't want to, of course, just don't act like you made something clear when you really did not clarify.
Buh, what a difficult question!
The answer to your question is implied in the post that you have responded to with your question.
But to be point blank: having an attorney may not directly affect the likelyhood of your file getting lost, nor will your attorney choose a person who will review your file, however, should there be any error in adjudiciation on part of CIS employee, you may rest assured that it will be settled in the quickest and most efficient way, provided that you hire a good attorney and there were no errors or delays in application and paperwork submitted.
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