Hi all...
We are fast approaching the 90 day window to apply to remove the conditions of residence for my wife.
We were thinking about paying a paralegal to help us with our package, but their fee is $700, and the only way I can swing that is to go into debt on a high interest credit card. I just don't have this kind of money right now.
As it is we still have to come up with the $545 USCIS fee.
The thing is we would like peace of mind - to have "professionals" do it.
When my wife got her initial green card she was denied at first, because I had lost my job...and our paralegal at the time failed to advise us to get a cosponsor. I got the cosponsor's paperwork to the counter at the Garden City USCIS by the deadline that the woman gave us, but they probably screwed up and did not deliver it to the person that was doing our case. It was an ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE trying to get them to acknowledge that we gave them the cosponsor's paperwork in time and get them to reverse there decision - it took MANY visits over MANY weeks to the Garden City USCIS - it's a good thing I was unemployed at the time.
We DON'T want to go through ANYTHING like that again.
But we cannot really afford to pay for a paralegal this time.
BESIDES THAT, my father INSISTS that if I'm careful it should be a piece of cake to fill out the form and compile everything we need anyway. He actually finds it kind of foolish that I am not just doing this myself.
Is it true? Is it easy to fill out this / these forms and compile / organize all required things ourselves?
Does anyone have a checklist of sorts, or an excellent website they can recommend with a perfect checklist for everything needed with the I-751?
Taxes - do they require state taxes or just transcripts of our joint Federal taxes?
Any and all help would be TREMENDOUSLY appreciated!
We are fast approaching the 90 day window to apply to remove the conditions of residence for my wife.
We were thinking about paying a paralegal to help us with our package, but their fee is $700, and the only way I can swing that is to go into debt on a high interest credit card. I just don't have this kind of money right now.
As it is we still have to come up with the $545 USCIS fee.
The thing is we would like peace of mind - to have "professionals" do it.
When my wife got her initial green card she was denied at first, because I had lost my job...and our paralegal at the time failed to advise us to get a cosponsor. I got the cosponsor's paperwork to the counter at the Garden City USCIS by the deadline that the woman gave us, but they probably screwed up and did not deliver it to the person that was doing our case. It was an ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE trying to get them to acknowledge that we gave them the cosponsor's paperwork in time and get them to reverse there decision - it took MANY visits over MANY weeks to the Garden City USCIS - it's a good thing I was unemployed at the time.
We DON'T want to go through ANYTHING like that again.
But we cannot really afford to pay for a paralegal this time.
BESIDES THAT, my father INSISTS that if I'm careful it should be a piece of cake to fill out the form and compile everything we need anyway. He actually finds it kind of foolish that I am not just doing this myself.
Is it true? Is it easy to fill out this / these forms and compile / organize all required things ourselves?
Does anyone have a checklist of sorts, or an excellent website they can recommend with a perfect checklist for everything needed with the I-751?
Taxes - do they require state taxes or just transcripts of our joint Federal taxes?
Any and all help would be TREMENDOUSLY appreciated!
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