Wednesday, November 27, 2013
What do I do now?
Immigration can be a very stressful life situation, especially when you are trying to do it on your own. Immigration is very complicated and should not be attempted without the knowledge of a qualified Immigration Attorney. Legal document preparers can do your forms for much less than an Attorney. As a legal document preparer, this is not legal advice but merely information about what should happen after you pay an Attorney. So, you walk into an Attorney's office and pay the retainer fee and after you walk out you don't hear anything for a month. You become worried and at this point you start calling the Attorney but to no avail. What do I do now? What should happen after you pay an Attorney? One of the first things that should happen after you pay the retainer, you shoukd be sent immigration forms to sign. After you sign the immigration forms, you should receive a copy of your case which should also include a shipping slip. The shipping slip allows you to track your case as it goes from the Attorney to the service center. After USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Service) has received your case, you should receive a receipt notice. It will come on form I-797 and a receipt number will be provided at the top of the notice. This is notice that your case has been received and is processing. It is VERY important that you retain a copy of your receipt notice so that you can also reference it whenever you need it. The USCIS offers a status tracker for your case from their website, www.uscis.gov or you can call 1-800-375-5283 and this will be your reference to your case as it progresses.. To make things easier, you can then go to www.uscis.gov and register to receive automatic case updates.. This will save you both time, effort and worry. From the USCIS home page, look about the middle of the page and you will see "check my case status." you can then sign up for automatic email updates. It is always good to know that your case is progressing. Contact Paralegal Express for affordable form preparation.
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