Can someone provide guidance on how I'd want to vet which lawyer I'd want to solicit to help prepare my Form N-600?

[butmajor-leagueas 14]

When I mean to "vet" a lawyer, I mostly want to try to figure how experienced the lawyer is with INA Section 320 citizenship cases and also just the experience of filing N-600s and responding to RFEs pertaining to them.

 

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To add to the question in the title, I'm also wondering if it is even worthwhile to solict a lawyer for my N-600 filing?

 

I feel like since I'm a person who hasn't filled out a single immigration form in my entire life that it might make sense. I have done a ton of research on my own over several months, but then again, I feel like nothing beats the experience of a lawyer. Questions I've had previously including questions such as - "should letters have wet signatures and seals / stamps of certification" would be something that a lawyer would just know.

 

Not to mention, my N-600 application is for my derivation of U.S. Citizenship that happened decades ago, rather than recently. Evidence for things like physical custody is just much more difficult to obtain at this point, and even if someone filing an N-600 this far into the future does have evidence that fulfills the "preponderance of evidence" standard, it might often be from an assortment of evidence that might not be so easy to present in the best way.

 

But then again, I've heard horror stories of lawyers making mistakes and people having to correct their lawyer's mistakes on their own, and I worry that for N-600 filings, they might just not have as much experience since the number of derived citizens (and even so those who have acquired it at birth to U.S. Citizen parents) are tiny, let alone those who file USCIS Form N-600 and I feel like a lot of lawyers might not have as much experience with N-600 filings.

[Boiler 47,539]

This is a DIY site, interview a few and ask them?

[OldUser 10,091]

Many credible lawyers are members of AILA. You can check them here:

https://www.ailalawyer.com/

 

Besides that, ask lawyer how many N-600 they filed, how many got approved. How recently they filed such case. How would they deal with RFE if one happened. How would they ensure to file the strongest case to avoid RFE. Etc etc