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A former petitioner

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Fluent in English & Russian, Learning Mandarin :)

We have successfully completed over 8000 K visa and marriage visa petitions. Only one other firm has comparable numbers. None of the other firms is even close. What’s more, our total number of K-1, K-2, I-130 K-3, K-4 and other fiancée and marriage related visas (Adjustment of Status petitions, travel documents, work authorizations, tourist visas for current and former K-1 clients) exceeds 12,000, and leads the field. Furthermore, our firm has been increasingly focusing on China cases for the last several years. Currently, over 35% of our casework is devoted to Chinese clients.

Controlling the case from start to finish allows our office to reduce to an absolute minimum the amount of time waiting for a visa. We typically get fiancées into the Consulate for the interview months sooner than the Consulate's quoted waiting times. Our entire office is organized around the principle that every day is precious in reuniting our clients with their loved ones. All of our office functions are faster and more reliable thanks to a unique custom-designed K1 visa case management program developed by John Roth over the last 14 years. In addition, all our office systems and technologies have been refined over our 14+ years in the K-1 field to offer our clients the most efficient possible progress through the visa acquisition process.

Since 1997 we’ve been sharing our case processing data with clients so that they have the best possible information about how long they’ll wait for their visa. This feature of our custom-designed (just for K-1 visas!) program is completely unique among immigration law firms (John Roth designed it himself), and is the best, most reliable data available anywhere. See our sample data.

We believe that the client deserves the highest level of professional legal service for their attorney fee. We don't just prepare the USCIS petition for you, we also manage the case during the far trickier Consular phase, where the fiancée is preparing for a live and potentially difficult interview. In our experience, the Consulate phase is where most potential problems with the visa arise.

We strive to minimize, for both the client and fiancée, the time spent, the aggravation, and the worry at a sensitive time in their lives when they are more concerned about preparing for the start of their new life together than about fighting government bureaucracies. We are keenly aware that fiancées in particular are typically very nervous while awaiting their visa (due to their own experiences with bureaucracies, and the horror stories they have often heard from their countrymen who have attempted to get a U.S. visa). Thus, the fiancée is not left to "fend for herself" (or rely on web forum advise that may be months or years out of date, if it was ever correct to begin with) once the USCIS has approved the petition and the U.S. Consulate has taken charge of the case. All the fiancée's Consulate documents are prepared in our U.S. office. More important, we stay actively involved with the fiancee through the Consular phase until the visa is issued.

Our experience with thousands of K-1 and K-3 cases allows us to see problems long before you or a less-experienced attorney would, permitting us to resolve the problems before they lead to heart-breaking disappointments and agonizing delays. Every petition in our office is reviewed by at least three members of our staff to ensure thorough issue-spotting and quality control. As a result, none of our office's K1 visa petitions have been denied, and 98% of our clients' fiancees have been approved on their first visit to the Consulate (and all were approved upon appeal). Compare this to initial turn down rates at the U. S. Guangzhou Consulate of 50% (estimate by Immigrant Visa Unit Chief at Guangzhou in September 2009).

We long ago learned how relieved the fiancée is to know that a professionally trained representative of the law firm will be meeting her prior to the Consulate interview. The fiancée is going into a live interview in a U.S. consulate, often for the first time in her life, with her entire future hanging in the balance. That’s why we have invested a great deal of time and money (our Guangzhou office alone costs us about $500 per case) in developing a team of overseas assistants to calm her, give her confidence, and prepare her to give her the very best chance of success. This service often results in our clients saving a substantial amount of money, too, because they don’t have to travel to the Consulate city to provide moral or other support for the fiancée as she awaits her interview (the fiancées often request this, but in virtually every case they have dropped the request once we have advised them that a more experienced assistant will be on hand to assist them).

Our U.S. clients are located all over the United States, and occasionally even overseas. Our office is specifically designed to allow us to easily and efficiently interact with our clients by telephone, e-mail, fax, and express mail. Our goal is to make every client feel like they are living right next door, no matter where in the country or the world they might be.

Literally every month we see a recent law school grad or new entrant who launches a web site as an “experienced K-1 attorney” with little to back it up but promises and marketing puffery. We are for those consumers who look beneath the surface and truly understand what it takes to make a successful immigrant visa experience. We follow the classic pattern for the top immigration firms with two mature, experienced attorneys, with four paralegal assistants. Why is this important? The most essential service an attorney offers in this field is issue spotting, document review and problem resolution. A smart, experienced lawyer is going to see ALL the issues in your case and documents and know exactly how to best to correct or compensate for any deficiencies in the case profile. Having two such attorneys means the attorneys can discuss, debate and bring both their experiences to bear to develop the best strategy for avoiding delay or disappointment.