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sobelle

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I am happy to announce that I became a citizen of United States of America starting yesterday. The oath ceremony was nice and emotional for me. Let me tell you my story with the INS, if you think yours is bad wait until you hear mine. I have been in the country for 20 years now. It took me 8 years to get my green card, waited 5 years and applied for my citizenship in November 2003 had my interview back on June 29, 2004.
Lucky me I was stuck in the infamous name check!! I didn't want to hire another lawyer; I had already hired three for my green card. The first who screwed my case royally was not a real lawyer but a notary public who cheated so many naive immigrants like me. The second one was very competent and did a great job but left in the middle of the case to become an immigration judge. She forwarded my application to another well know lawyer. Unfortunately by then, the immigration had denied twice my case because they couldn't reach my second lawyer. Needless to say, I was reluctant this time to hire another lawyer for my naturalization. After 3 years of waiting for my name check to be cleared, I decided to hire an immigration lawyer (but this time I did my homework and searched for the best immigration lawyer in Boston) in one month my name check was cleared and my oath letter was in the mail. If you ask me I don't think we need to go through this nightmare, but let me tell you I should have hired my lawyer 2 years ago!! Did you know that under the Equal Access to Justice Act you can be reimbursed for the attorney fees and cost of court? It is worth it don’t sit and wait! do something about it, it really works! but be careful with the unscrupulous mediocre lawyers out there!!
 
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wow you really scared me. Are you female or male? I just want to know because a lot of people saying male mostly get stuck in the name check, but i have seen a lot of female too. Maybe I should start doing my own research on how to sue uscis just incase i get stuck.



sobelle said:
I am happy to announce that I became a citizen of United States of America starting yesterday. The oath ceremony was nice and emotional for me. Let me tell you my story with the INS, if you think yours is bad wait until you hear mine. I have been in the country for 20 years now. It took me 8 years to get my green card, waited 5 years and applied for my citizenship in November 2003 had my interview back on June 29, 2004.
Lucky me I was stuck in the infamous name check!! I didn't want to hire another lawyer; I had already hired three for my green card. The first who screwed my case royally was not a real lawyer but a notary public who cheated so many naive immigrants like me. The second one was very competent and did a great job but left in the middle of the case to become an immigration judge. She forwarded my application to another well know lawyer. Unfortunately by then, the immigration had denied twice my case because they couldn't reach my second lawyer. Needless to say, I was reluctant this time to hire another lawyer for my naturalization. After 3 years of waiting for my name check to be cleared, I decided to hire an immigration lawyer (but this time I did my homework and searched for the best immigration lawyer in Boston) in one month my name check was cleared and my oath letter was in the mail. If you ask me I don't think we need to go through this nightmare but let me tell you I should have hired my lawyer 2 years ago!! Did you know that under the Equal Access to Justice Act you can be reimbursed for the attorney fees and cost of court? It is worth it don’t sit and wait! do something about it really works, but be careful with the unscrupulous mediocre lawyers out there!!
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sobelle,
congratulations on ur citizenship!

These days they dont schedule interview w/o namecheck completion, so hiring a lawyer wont be that effective. Other folks, can u also share ur opinion on this point?
 
CrossHairs said:
sobelle,
congratulations on ur citizenship!

These days they dont schedule interview w/o namecheck completion, so hiring a lawyer wont be that effective. Other folks, can u also share ur opinion on this point?
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Thank you! I guess the person can get stuck in the name check anyway while waiting for the interview, so instead of having the interview let's say in a couple of months it could be years before you could be called for the interview.
 
sobelle said:
I am happy to announce that I became a citizen of United States of America starting yesterday. The oath ceremony was nice and emotional for me. Let me tell you my story with the INS, if you think yours is bad wait until you hear mine. I have been in the country for 20 years now. It took me 8 years to get my green card, waited 5 years and applied for my citizenship in November 2003 had my interview back on June 29, 2004.
Lucky me I was stuck in the infamous name check!! I didn't want to hire another lawyer; I had already hired three for my green card. The first who screwed my case royally was not a real lawyer but a notary public who cheated so many naive immigrants like me. The second one was very competent and did a great job but left in the middle of the case to become an immigration judge. She forwarded my application to another well know lawyer. Unfortunately by then, the immigration had denied twice my case because they couldn't reach my second lawyer. Needless to say, I was reluctant this time to hire another lawyer for my naturalization. After 3 years of waiting for my name check to be cleared, I decided to hire an immigration lawyer (but this time I did my homework and searched for the best immigration lawyer in Boston) in one month my name check was cleared and my oath letter was in the mail. If you ask me I don't think we need to go through this nightmare, but let me tell you I should have hired my lawyer 2 years ago!! Did you know that under the Equal Access to Justice Act you can be reimbursed for the attorney fees and cost of court? It is worth it don’t sit and wait! do something about it, it really works! but be careful with the unscrupulous mediocre lawyers out there!!
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Congratulations Sobelle !! Your will and determination is a testimonial to all future citizens !!
 
action123 said:
wow you really scared me. Are you female or male? I just want to know because a lot of people saying male mostly get stuck in the name check, but i have seen a lot of female too. Maybe I should start doing my own research on how to sue uscis just incase i get stuck.
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Stucking in Name-Check mess has nothing to do with being a male or female, nor it has anything to do with the country of the applicant. As a matter of fact, this board had many female members in the past who were stuck in Name Check mess despite of being female, and most of them were from English speaking countries and western countries like England, Canada, France, Germany, Australia.

However, it has been my experience that applicants with a Muslim name or those from Muslim countries and from Russia (or it's former states) are seemed to be stuck more often than other applicants. It just has been my observation over the years being on many immigration boards.
 
Lawyer reference please

Hi Sobelle,

Congratulations!

I live in Boston too and also had the misfortune of picking a truly incompetent lawyer - who duped me out of a $1000. I cut my losses by not letting him file my N400 for me and ended up getting together all the documents myself and filing in July 2007 (..and got stuck in the Gold rush, frontlog, backlog - whatever you want to call it! ;)

However my case is not straightforward (there was one occasion where I had to be outside continuously for 10.5 months while I was doing my postdoctoral work abroad) so I will very likely need a good lawyer, if they deny me.

Could you please let me know the name, and contact info of the lawyer that you had a good experience with?

Thanks a lot!

S.
 
CrossHairs said:
These days they dont schedule interview w/o namecheck completion, so hiring a lawyer wont be that effective. Other folks, can u also share ur opinion on this point?
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Because of tremendous volume of lawsuits were filed and being filed across the country, USCIS changed its policy last year in April on conducting a Naturalization interview and decided to interview applicants once all the background checks are done so that they could stop or limit those lawsuits. However, that doesn't mean that they cannot or don't conduct interview prior to all these checks are completed. It's a matter of USCIS own internal policy than a matter of law. So, they can choose to interview people prior to completion of all background checks, if they want. As a matter of fact, many applicants from this board were asked to come to interview despite of their background checks weren't completed, and it was after they adopted a new policy.
 
TheBlueGod said:
Hi Sobelle,

Congratulations!

I live in Boston too and also had the misfortune of picking a truly incompetent lawyer - who duped me out of a $1000. I cut my losses by not letting him file my N400 for me and ended up getting together all the documents myself and filing in July 2007 (..and got stuck in the Gold rush, frontlog, backlog - whatever you want to call it! ;)

However my case is not straightforward (there was one occasion where I had to be outside continuously for 10.5 months while I was doing my postdoctoral work abroad) so I will very likely need a good lawyer, if they deny me.

Could you please let me know the name, and contact info of the lawyer that you had a good experience with?

Thanks a lot!

S.
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Sure, I hope it's not a problem to post a contact info.
Her name is: RACHEL.M.SELF
6 Beacon st, Suite 825
Tel: 617-742-0191
www.attorneyself.com
 
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