I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by jl108 on Friday October 09, 2020 @01:05PM (#24731981)

Hi Peter, I'm sponsoring my wife's green card and we're pretty type A and have filled out all the forms and gathered copious evidence of relationship, evidence of financial sufficiency, etc. But we're worried about the current political climate and are considering working with Fragomen just to de-risk. We've heard the current administration is rejecting applications for every little reason (e.g. field that should be marked n/a is left blank, etc). Do you have any advice on this? Thank you so much for what you do.

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by fitbitq on Friday October 09, 2020 @01:18PM (#24732148)

Greencard for a wife should not be an issue.

Tip for the pro: if you don't have a middle name, write N/A and not "none". Source: me. I became

Michael N. Familyname

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by mmaunder on Friday October 09, 2020 @01:29PM (#24732248)

I can do one better. I misspelled my own middle name - Donovan instead of Donavan as it appears on my birth certificate. Delayed my application by a month or two. Could have been way worse if the process wasn’t fairly quick back in 2004. (My wife was born here and I’m from South Africa)

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by outworlder on Friday October 09, 2020 @03:16PM (#24733384)

Should have written "Not Sure"

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by ayberk on Friday October 09, 2020 @06:29PM (#24735092)

Please don't even consider Fragomen. Ask any Amazon engineer and they'll tell you the same thing: do not ever work with Fragomen.

I personally had to talk to my manager and hire my own lawyer instead of working with Fragomen after countless delays and mistakes. They don't care about you or your case at all and the paralegals are outright incompetent. You don't really get to talk to the lawyer a lot anyway.

I'd go with a local smaller firm if I were you. If you're in Seattle area, I can recommend "MacDonald Hoague & Bayless". I personally worked with "Lola Zakharova" and she was amazing.

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by mikemac20 on Monday October 12, 2020 @03:37PM (#24758529)

Thank you for your feedback, which Fragomen takes seriously. We are committed to providing superior client service, and we are sorry your experience with us has not been a positive one. If you would like to discuss further, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Thank you again, Karen (Fragomen).

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