This retainer agreement will confirm the terms upon which you have retained our firm to represent you in connection with immigration and related matters. The services to be rendered will consist of securing the receipt by your fiancé(e) of a K1 visa to enter the United States. The specific services to be provided are as follows:

1. USCIS Forms Preparation
Our office will prepare all USCIS forms for you based on the information and documents you and your fiancé(e) provide us. Upon completion, we will email your forms to you for signature.

2. Collection of Form Data from Fiancé(e)
A member of our office (including overseas staff) will contact your fiancé(e) to obtain all biographical information required by the visa process, unless such information has already been obtained by you.

3. Supporting Document Advice
Our office will provide you and your fiancé(e) with all necessary advice regarding the collection of supporting documents for the USCIS petition and Consulate interview.

4. USCIS Application Preparation
In the interest of expediting USCIS review of your K1 visa petition, our office will prepare your petition according to the highest professional standards, and every effort will be made to make the application as complete, accurate and easy to review as possible, so that the USCIS official is encouraged to approve the application as soon as possible.

5. Contact with USCIS
Our office will handle all telephone, mail, and fax contact with the USCIS. In extraordinary circumstances, we may ask you to voluntarily contact the USCIS to aid our office's efforts to expedite your case. Your voluntary agreement to undertake such contact will not be deemed as a failure by our firm to adhere to the terms of this agreement.

6. Consulate Forms Preparation
We will fill out all Consulate forms (except for the forms that must be submitted in your fiancé(e) native language) for your fiancé(e) after the USCIS petition is approved and will email the forms to your fiancé(e). We will also at this time email your fiancé(e) instructions prepared by our office. After the USCIS approves your petition, we will email your fiancée the Consulate instructions and other material contained in U.S. State Department Packet #3 (initial Consulate mailing to the fiancé(e)) and U.S. State Department Packet #4 (final Consulate mailing to the fiancé(e)).

7. Contact with U.S. Consulate
All required telephone, mail, and fax contact with the U.S. Consulate will be handled by our office. In extraordinary circumstances, we may ask you to voluntarily contact the Consulate to aid our office's efforts to expedite your case. Your voluntary agreement to undertake such contact will not be deemed as a failure by our firm to adhere to the terms of this agreement.

8. Contact with the Fiancé(e)
We will honor all reasonable client requests to contact your fiancé(e) by telephone to assist her/him in resolving problems or difficulties associated with the legal process as well as maintaining confidence and composure in the process.

9. Paralegal Assistance in Guangzhou
One of our assistants will meet your fiancé(e) prior to her Consulate interview to prepare her/him for the interview.

GENERAL SERVICES / PROVISIONS:

10. Client Updates
We will keep you closely advised of all significant developments in the progress of your case. We will initiate contact to advise you of the following events, among others: (a) Our successful contact with your fiancé(e) to obtain all necessary biographical information; (b) Receipt by us of your and/or your fiancé(e)'s documents and other supporting items; (c) Our submission by express mail of your USCIS petition; (d) Our email with Consulate instructions and completed forms to your fiancé(e)'s; (e) USCIS Receipt Notice of your petition with case number; and (f) USCIS Approval Notice of your petition.

11. Attorney Accessibility
You can expect to have access to an attorney during normal working hours, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, excluding holidays. Should a specific attorney you desire to speak with be engaged at the time of your telephone call, you can expect a return telephone call within 24 hours (not including weekends and holidays), except in such cases where extraordinary circumstances beyond the control of the attorney make such a call impossible.

If a client engages in excessive, unwarranted telephone calling and/ or email contact that clearly constitutes an abuse of the fixed fee arrangement, and hinders our ability to provide quality legal service to our other clients, then we may ask such client to desist, and, failing that, may assert a right to bill the client for the unreasonable additional contact.

12. Expedited Case Processing
Every reasonable effort will be made to expedite your case promptly and efficiently. Please understand, however, that government bureaucracy errors or workload problems beyond our office's control can sometimes slow the processing of a case. We will, however, work proactively with the government agencies involved to minimize the impact on your case of any such government errors or delays.

13. Attorney/Client Ethics
We expect that all information given by you and your fiancé(e) to our firm, either orally or in writing, will be accurate to the best of your knowledge. If we discover that any information you supply us is willfully inaccurate or false, we will immediately withdraw from representing you as required by law.

14. Attorney Fee
You will be charged a flat fee of $1950.00 for the K-1 visa, plus $300 for each child invited as a K-2 beneficiary. Should a co-sponsor be needed to meet the financial requirements of the K-1 visa, you will be charged an additional charge of $250. Our fees presume that you and you fiancé(e) have accurately represented all material facts to us, and that you and your fiancé(e) follow the instructions that our office provides to you.

15. Fixed fee
Both parties understand and agree on the fixed fee, which is based upon the average time for a K-1 visa case in our office, and that individual cases vary in the actual amount of work required. If your case requires more work than average, whether it be for appeals, post-interview processing, or other additional work, you will not be charged an additional fee beyond the initial retainer fee. Likewise, if your case should require less work than average, and in particular if you should withdraw or abandon your petition, the fee will be deemed earned in full and no part of the fee will be reduced or returned.

16. Payment Plan / Money Back Guarantee
One half of the attorney fee is due at the time you retain our firm. If the USCIS issues a Request for Additional Evidence after submission by our office of your I-129F petition, our firm will refund your initial ½ fee in full, and we will assist you in answering the Request for Additional Evidence at no charge. The second half of the attorney fee is due once the USCIS approves your I-129F petition. If the Consulate decides to return your petition to the USCIS for possible revocation, our firm will refund your second ½ payment in full. A refund will not be due if you or your fiancé have misrepresented a material fact to our firm, or have failed to follow our office's clear instructions.

17. Expenses
We will not bill you for our office expenses associated with processing your case (e.g. express mail charges, telephone charges, copying costs, etcetera). You will separately pay all required government fees and medical examination fees.

We appreciate the confidence expressed by you in selecting our firm to act as your counsel in connection with this matter.

AGREED TO AND ACCEPTED BY:

_________________________________ Client Name _________________________________ John F. Roth

Date: _________________________________ Date: _________________________________