Finding an immigration lawyer in the US is not a difficult job. Type ‘immigration lawyer’ into a search engine and thousands of them will appear. Finding a lawyer is not the problem, finding an honest one may be a different matter. There are many unscrupulous people out there seeking to make money off of foreign nationals who are attempting to visit or become a citizen of the United States. In fact, when it comes to immigration, there are many people out there seeking to exploit. There are fake green card lotteries and more.

So what do you do? You’re a foreign national seeking entrance into the United States, and you don’t know what to do. This is one reason you need a lawyer, to help walk you through complex legal process, but finding the right one may be daunting. There are some things you can do, however.

First, always check with the better business bureau to see if the lawyer’s name is found there.

Second, interview your lawyer just as you would a contractor or anyone else you hire. See if this is a person you trust and a person you can have a relationship with in the sense of working together to help you with your immigration issues. Trust and Relationship (communication) are two of the main things you need in your lawyer.

Third, ask to speak to previous clients. Ask them how things went and if there were any problems.

Fourth, seek a lawyer through people you know who have already gone through the process. They can give you first hand knowledge about the lawyer and his/her practices.

Fifth: check them out, check them out, check them out! Go to the Better Business Bureau, but don’t stop there. Check out all the lawyer professional agencies (licensing, professional organizations, …).

In the end, you will be putting your future into the life of the lawyer you choose to help you with your immigration issues. Don’t just call someone you found on the Internet without making sure you check out their references and other sources to make sure they are good at what they do and are people you can work with well.

Why Do I Need A US Immigration Lawyer?

Immigration lawyers in the United States work with many government agencies to help you with all of your immigration problems. Immigration lawyers can work with you on issues dealing with immigration, emigration, visas, green cards, political asylum, and other important immigration and naturalization issues.

The United States of America is a free nation that accepts a certain amount of people to immigrate within its borders ever year. This freedom to immigrate into the United States is a special privilege given to a select few. To expedite the process, every immigrant should seek counsel with an immigration attorney to facilitate residency and citizenship proceedings.

Immigration in America dates back to wanderers from Northeast Asia about 20,000 years ago. Currently, immigration including new arrivals and their children accounts for an increase of about 1.5 million more people a year, which represents more than half of the total U.S. population growth. Today the debate of immigration in the United States is seemly never ending. There are many reasons that explain why people are boiling over the issue of illegal immigration. Many of the claims in my two articles states that illegal immigration threatens jobs and lower wages. In the articles, there are many ways in which economists convey their ideas to deal with the issue of immigration’s effect on the job market. Some of their ideas include deporting all illegal immigrants back to their native countries, making immigrants pay for penalties, and building a computerized electric fence that would indicate where the immigrants would cross the border. Both of the articles express concerns about this debate and presents many ideas on possible solutions to this issue. However, many of the articles lack evidence, objections, and rebuttal to their reasonability of the debate. Another very important element that most articles lack is giving the appropriate reasons as to why their claim or statement is sufficient.

One example of an article that lack evidence, objections, and rebuttal to its claims is an article written by an unknown journalist at the Wharton School of Finance on a Cornell University professor, Professor Briggs – who opposes to illegal immigration. In this article, The Immigration Debate: Its Impact on Workers, Wages, and Employers, Professor Briggs speaks about sending messages to illegal workers through their employers by “clamping” the employers down who hired them so that a clear message is sent to the workers that illegal immigration is not to be tolerated. His claim is that “illegal workers exert downward pressure on wages and reduce job opportunity for low-skilled citizens.” As mentioned earlier, this article lacks objection, evidence, and rebuttal. This professor failed to mention the effects of immigrant workers on wages and working conditions in other parts of the world. He also failed to explain why illegal immigrants force down wages by simply responding “that’s how the market works.” The author and the professor clearly failed to provide any justifiable reason or evidence as to how the market works.

A further example of another University professor