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If you’ve ever known someone who has gone through the immigration process, you understand how complicated and sometimes frustrating immigration law can be. While it’s possible to research immigration law yourself, it is basically a full time job as immigration laws change frequently.

If you or someone you know is seeking successful immigration, it’s vitally important to connect with an immigration law attorney. Immigration law attorneys are trained to help people seeking immigration. Further, immigration law attorneys are responsible for staying current with the ongoing changes in immigration law.

Before you engage with an immigration law attorney, it’s important to understand what they do. Here’s an in depth review of an immigration law attorney’s responsibilities …

The first thing an immigration law attorney will do with a potential client is offer a free consultation. This serves two purposes. First, the immigration law attorney needs to determine if they can legally help you. Second, the immigration law attorney wants to develop a rapport and find out pertinent facts about the person seeking to immigrate. As each immigration case is different, it is vitally important such a fact finding consultation takes place.

The next step for an immigration law attorney is to begin the immigration paperwork process. This is often a lengthy and complicated step. As such, it’s very important that the client has a general understanding of what paperwork needs to be filed, by when, and by whom. The client should begin to become educated about the immigration law process, with the immigration law attorney helping them along the way.

Also, the immigration law attorney is responsible for understanding 100% of the pertinent facts in a client’s situation. This is critical. The immigration law attorney will be responsible for working directly with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) so it’s vitally important the immigration law attorney is extremely thorough and extracts all necessary information from the client.

The INS is responsible for keeping out aliens with a criminal history, and it is the immigration law attorney’s role to find out if their client is being completely direct and forthright. It’s in the immigration law attorney’s best interest to do so, as there are severe penalties for both immigration law attorneys and their clients for withholding or falsifying important information.

The most important aspect of an immigration law attorney’s role is to make positive progress on the immigration case. They will also need to actively communicate the status of the immigration case to their client, and make sure the client understands all timeframes and responsibilities involved. The immigration law attorney will make sure the client understands exactly who is responsible for what aspect of the immigration case, either the client or the immigration law attorney.

An immigration law attorney is the most important factor in a successful immigration case. There are immigration law attorneys for every case, no matter where the person is attempting immigration. It is vitally important for an appropriate match, as immigration law has many specialties and there is not a one size fits all immigration law attorney. Lastly, there needs to be a positive, open dialogue and comfort level between the client and immigration law attorney. All these factors combined should result in a successful and less stressful immigration case.