employment sponsorship is taking forever!

Our company is sponsoring two immigrants through employment. We are a specialty construction contractor. We have an attorney handling the forms, etc., and we have advertised and been unable to find anyone, USC or naturalized, to fill their highly specialized positions. We have gone through all the motions, filed a mountain of forms, written letters and done everything the attorney has requested. What gets me is the time it's taking for their paperwork to be approved. Does anyone know how long this process can take? The lawyer says "hurry up and wait" - I'm wondering if any of you has been through this and can give me a good guess about how much longer we have to wait.

it's really can be forever, i think most of people
going thru empl'g sponsoring just screwed up with
attorney who try make a money, not to help
we're going with the same problem with my boyfr.and he's not goin to listem me, i did suggest for him marreage with me , im USC,
but he wants to be a man and try do by the harder way,
so i'm sorry about for U
good luck

Sorry, Lesia, I know it's tough. I just had no idea that it could take so long. We met all the requirements and haven't heard anything for months. Anyone else out there with any insight?

What I have heard that one can do in your situation is go through RIR, (reduction in recruitment), what this process entails is less advertisment requirements in order to sponsor an immigrant. This could substatially lessen the amount of time needed to get approved. Use keywords RIR, for more information on this

Thanks, I'll look into it.

Linda, the process is completely false, your attorney will know it.

What do you mean - I take it you've had a bad experience with this? We have been able to prove that no Americans either wanted or were qualified for the position.