Our law firm has spent close to 30 years providing second opinions on immigration law cases. Our expertise is extremely insightful considering that our experience cuts across an array of law firm types (big and small), levels of law firm expertise from some of the worlds finest immigration law firms to ones where it is clear that expertise is simply lacking.
In all situations, it is wise to obtain a second opinion in order to determine whether you are being handled in a manner that sets up your case for a substantive win or whether you are being handled in a respectful and clear manner, with clear instructions about what your should be providing to allow you to present your evidence in the best light possible to the U.S. government.
You will also find that the level of service from different law firm varies greatly. There are full service firms which intake you with a thorough explanation of what they intend to provide for you you and they roadmap how to get your case from initiation to evidence gathering to the critical writing phases of both the Master Cover Letter to the government which synthesizes your case – tying facts to law and making persuasive arguments to win on the optimal merits of the case. There are other law firms that take an approach that they are are intaking evidence from you in order to present whatever might convince the government that your case is winnable but they fail to organize the case in a way that holds up evidence which positions you optimally for a win and they fail to delete evidence which is simply a burden to the adjudicating officer who has limited time and resources to review everything you have to show relating to your matter.
The idea goal is to strike a balance between the choice of evidence that is presented to the government and to present it in a logical format with highlights on evidence that shines through the law to make the winning moment possible.
We do not intend to change the way lawyers present evidence but can provide helpful advice about things like evidence being buried too deeply in paperwork so that it is no noticed. We do not criticize the method of assembly because every case has a method to the orderliness by which a lawyer determines is the best presentation of evidence.
But a second eye on a case can find errors of judgment and above all it can help clean up a case that has gone into too much detail obscuring the elements that shine for a win.
Please do not hesitate to contact our law firm if you need a second opinion about the merits or assembly of your case.
Ms. Wallace’s law firm expertise was gained from employment in three large national law firms (Hunton, Baker & McKenzie, Pillsbury/Shaw Pittman), immigration’s best-in-class (BAL Global), and two business immigration boutique firms (Chapman, Serotte Law Firms), and as external Lead Immigration Counsel for huge (and smaller) corporations.
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It is never too late to get that second opinion and potentially try again, even after a case has failed the first time around.