[ececconi]

I used my the legal plan through my work to get a lawyer to apply for citizenship (document review, walk through the process). She was awful, gave me outdated forms, was condescending, and told me I needed documentation that wasn't needed.

Long story short, I filed by myself and had a friend who is a lawyer review certain parts of my application which I think needed a little extra review.

Something like this is awesome, I'll definitely bookmark it for if I have friends or family going through the citizenship process.

[netule]

I had a similar experience with an immigration lawyer. Our lawyer didn't help much besides giving very broad directions, she gave us the wrong paperwork to fill out, which my wife and I had to redo from scratch upon discovering the problem. Then, on the day of the interview with USCIS (the "Are you really married? Show me the proof" interview and evidence dump), our lawyer failed to show up.

My wife and I did the interview on our own and thankfully got through it okay. On our way out of the building, we ran into our lawyer, who claimed that she got stuck in traffic and was very sorry. Needless to say, we fired her and we have filed all of our paperwork ourselves since this incident.

For my naturalization process, I will consider any other option other than a lawyer.

[pkaye]

I suggest you join the message board at visajourney.com. I used that for my own family. For some reason, it is not uncommon for family immigration lawyers to screw up the cases a lot. I guess the good ones don't see much money in the basic service of filling out forms.