Attorney advice!?

[Aussie Dave Dude 0]

Has anyone had any experience with Lizz cannon, I saw some people recommend her on here and I was wondering if people could share their experiences.

[trojam227 18]

I don't have personal experience with Liz Cannon but she, Steven Heller & Laurel Scott seem to be the famous amongst the waiver attorneys. I think they all have a lot of experience preparing them and have a good approval rate from what I have heard.

[Boiler 45,659]

She has a speciality, do you fit it?

[Noah Lot 391]

She has a speciality, do you fit it?

Yea....her 'specialty' is charging thousands of dollars for doing relatively little actual work, while the client scrambles around to find and/or manufacture whatever 'evidence' will be submitted to somehow prove extreme hardship...few people seemed to have caught on to this outrageous fleecing....on average, some of these 'noble' practitioners charge $8000 to 'prepare' a waiver package, which represents close to 30 billable hours....in reality, these attorneys use a boiler plate template for their weepy cover letter, (changing only the names), probably have an out of work psychologist available who for some token fee will draft a letter claiming that every health problem allegedly befalling the client can somehow be traced to the separation caused by the client's irresponsible foreign born spouse (typically an individual who has thumbed his or her nose at our laws from the moment they snuck across the border or were [foolishly] admitted to the US as a 'tourist', and mostly have their paralegals xerox the same medical reports to create a two inch high stack which the attorneys hope will cause the USCIS adjudictors to avoid reading and just rubber stamp an approval, for which the attorney will take full credit when none was due.

My own observation/experience having worked for a similar ethically challenged individual, was that about 3 hours of actual office time 'work' was done in the preparation of the average waiver packet...and any claimed 'expertise' by said attorney that magically brought about an approval was largely mythical.

[Noah Lot 391]

Yea....the 'specialty' is charging thousands of dollars for doing relatively little actual work, while the client scrambles around to find and/or manufacture whatever 'evidence' will be submitted to somehow prove extreme hardship...few people seemed to have caught on to this outrageous fleecing....on average, some of these 'noble' practitioners charge $8000 to 'prepare' a waiver package, which represents close to 30 billable hours....in reality, these attorneys use a boiler plate template for their weepy cover letter, (changing only the names), probably have an out of work psychologist available who for some token fee will draft a letter claiming that every health problem allegedly befalling the client can somehow be traced to the separation caused by the client's irresponsible foreign born spouse's inability to obtain admission back to the US, (and whose fault is this...yep...the foreign born spouse, typically an individual who has thumbed his or her nose at our laws from the moment they snuck across the border or were [foolishly] admitted to the US as a 'tourist'), and mostly have their paralegals xerox the same medical reports over and over, then shuffle the order of said documents in order to create a two inch high stack which the attorneys hope will cause the USCIS adjudictors to recoil at the prospect of reading through all that nonsense and just rubber stamp an approval, for which the attorney will take full credit when none was due.

My own observation/experience having worked for a similarly ethically challenged individual, was that about 3 hours of actual office time 'work' was done in the preparation of the average waiver packet...and any claimed 'expertise' by said attorney that magically brought about an approval was largely mythical.

Edited May 11, 2012 by Noah Lot

[trojam227 18]

Yea....her 'specialty' is charging thousands of dollars for doing relatively little actual work, while the client scrambles around to find and/or manufacture whatever 'evidence' will be submitted to somehow prove extreme hardship...few people seemed to have caught on to this outrageous fleecing....on average, some of these 'noble' practitioners charge $8000 to 'prepare' a waiver package, which represents close to 30 billable hours....in reality, these attorneys use a boiler plate template for their weepy cover letter, (changing only the names), probably have an out of work psychologist available who for some token fee will draft a letter claiming that every health problem allegedly befalling the client can somehow be traced to the separation caused by the client's irresponsible foreign born spouse (typically an individual who has thumbed his or her nose at our laws from the moment they snuck across the border or were [foolishly] admitted to the US as a 'tourist', and mostly have their paralegals xerox the same medical reports to create a two inch high stack which the attorneys hope will cause the USCIS adjudictors to avoid reading and just rubber stamp an approval, for which the attorney will take full credit when none was due.

My own observation/experience having worked for a similar ethically challenged individual, was that about 3 hours of actual office time 'work' was done in the preparation of the average waiver packet...and any claimed 'expertise' by said attorney that magically brought about an approval was largely mythical.

Hahahaha!! That's putting it kindly..and exactly why I decided to prepare our waiver myself and it will be filed the end of June/early July. I'll let you know how it goes. (disclosure: I don't recommend you try this at home)

Edited May 12, 2012 by trojam227

[Aussie Dave Dude 0]

Well I don't really care how it happens I just want to win a waiver haha

[trojam227 18]

Well I don't really care how it happens I just want to win a waiver haha

I hear ya Dude. That is the important thing and if using one of these guys gets it done, that's all that matters. I don't think they take on cases that don't have a good chance at approval, so if you consult with Liz and she says she can do it, then she can most likely get it done. Good luck.