Up until Law22, my experience with 3 other immigration lawyers was nothing short of nightmarish. They were all the same, they told me what I wanted to hear at first, promised to work very hard on my sister’s case, and insisted on upfront retainer. But once they got paid, they stopped returning my phone calls or emails. And it was obvious to me that they were not working on her case at all. So when I came in to see Mr. Amer I was extremely annoyed and suspicious. Right from our first meeting he told us that it was going to be extremely difficult for us to prove that my sister was in a good faith marriage with her ex-husband, and therefore, she faced the real possibility of losing her green card after the 751 interview. Although it was not what we wanted to hear, but we knew that it was probably correct since he used to work as immigration officer before.
The problem with my sister’s case was that her ahole husband had totally isolated her and never allowed her to get any joint documents with him, no joint bank accounts, insurance papers, or even a driver’s license. Besides her marriage and divorce papers she literally had nothing to prove her marriage to him. Mr. Amer sat with us and brainstormed with us all the ways that we were going to work around her problem. He told us that this was going to require a lot of work. What sort of surprised us was that that the fees that he requested were actually higher than those of the other attorneys. But when I told him that he laughed and told us the difference was because he actually intended to work on the case.
I don’t want to exaggerate, but Mr. Amer spent tens and tens of hours on the case. And unlike the other lawyers he did not want all the money to be paid upfront. He told me that he wanted us to pay him only after earned his money. Thanks to his hard work and creative thinking my sister got her permanent greencard. We are so happy and grateful to him.
I should also mention something about what my sister told happened when Attorney Amer was with her for her interview. She told me that the immigration officers seemed to like and respect him. And some even came to say hello to him after her interview was finished. She said that he was like a rock star there. When I told him about that, he said that they are only like that to him because he is extremely careful about his reputation and the cases that he takes on. He told me that if he smelled something fishy with a case, he would not come close to it, regardless of how much money they offered to give him.