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I would like as many comments as possible on this subject because my new son-in-law is getting conflicting information from other friends of his from SA who have married US citizens and then filed to adjust status from H2B visas.
Several of his friends are telling him that they did their paperwork by themselves only to have it returned and then they had to employ an attorney. They are telling him that they highly recommend that he get an attorney to avoid prolonging the process. One of them even told them that it took them 5 years to get his green card because all of their paper work was returned then they got a lawyer involved (and I told my son-in-law that the attorney is probably taking to long to file documents and doing them wrong) that is why it has been delayed.
I am a paralegal for 20 years (not in immigration) and I know I can handle preparing and filing all the paperwork. I want to get responses in black and white form VJers so I can show him that this process can be done if the instructions are followed to a "T", and you double and triple check the forms and provide all required proof of your marriage. I explained to him that all an attorney is going to do is take all your information and plug it into the forms, collect your check payalbe to USCIS, along with the attorney's fee which is outrageous since his paralegal will be doing all the legework (I'm speaking from experience) and send all the documents and follow the case just like I would be doing.
Thank you in advance for backing me up on my theory that an attorney, most of the time, will make more mistakes than you would in preparing the doucments because you care more about your own case then the attorney does.