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Avoid and stay away. Misconduct, dishonesty, and unprofessional. This attorney needs to repeat grad school and retake the Ethics course. He screwed up my I-485 petition: lied, misconducted, and was rude. Cannot tell how this influenced my life. Both I and my wife fired this attorney and firm. We have saved all the original email communications. We would be happy to share per request to use as educational materials. Please google the attorney’s name before you decide to hire. Interested to see the story, see below. We hired this attorney to file two I-485 cases for my wife, and myself as a derivate applicant. The I-485 case of my wife’s was filed earlier properly but due to visa retrogression, when we were preparing the paperwork for mine, the PD of the primary applicant was not current. 1. We were told I could not file until we could, we checked multiple times however, my case was filed to USCIS in May 2023 when the PD of the primary applicant was still not current even now (August 2023) 2. We asked for confirmation within 2hr upon receiving your email telling us my package was shipped, we were told that, ‘we haven’t, we will until we can. 3. 2 weeks later, we were notified by USCIS that my case was received. 4. 1 week after, we were told that they indeed filed my case and advised us just to wait. 5. We expressed the concerns politely; We were told that USCIS should not mistakenly accept the case. We were again told no action was needed; Even if something happens, they would help us proceed with CP or Follow-to-join, which would take a significantly long time. We said no. In the initial conversation, they told us they would do what they could to avoid this happening as this could take a very long time. 6. We took a lot of time looking into this issue, and we all became very anxious. Unfortunately, we found it was well-documented that the I-485 not Current filing would be denied; We also found some similar cases from a BBS and some friends around. We again expressed our concerns and asked for a solution, we were told what we described was quite implausible. 7. We asked to let him withdraw the case on my behalf and would still let him help me refile when it becomes current. We were again told the fact of USCIS receiving my case would be a good thing for us. Also, we were told we could not refile when the withdrawal case was not completed. 8. We followed up, we were told that Form B was in use and the timing was good when my case was filed in May 2023, so there was NOTHING wrong but just some miscommunication. We were convinced at that time and felt happy. However, we checked and found it was a lie. Form B was never in use since early this year and is still true now (August 2023). We were fooled. 9. We decided to pay for a consultation with another lawyer, we also used some free services provided by AVVO. Consistently, we were advised to withdraw and when it becomes Current, we can refile to not miss the timing. Even if the withdrawal case is not completed, we can still refile for no problem. We asked again, they refused but admitted that we can refile even the withdrawal case was pending. They told us because it would cause a financial loss to their firm, so they refused to issue a refund but would be happy to disengage immediately.

Michael Wilson