Attorney or not?

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Paquito

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Hello everyone.

This is the fist time I post in this excellent forum, which I've been reading for quite some time.

Here's my situation:

I'm Mexican and I've been offered a teaching job at a US University
It's a part time job and it's paid by the hour.
They are going to grant me an employment offer letter to get the TN Visa.
They have stated that they will not pay for an attorney and that I'll have to pay for it myself.

I hold a Bachelors degree from the US and a Masters degree from Mexico.
I plan to get the Visa at a US Consulate in Mexico, appointment required.

My questions are:

Do I need to hire an attorney to prepare the application?
Is it more likely to get the visa if the application is prepared by an attorney?
I'd like to know your experiences on getting the TN with and without an attorney, how did it go?

Thanks for helping me make an informed decision.
Paquito.
 
Your letter IS your application.

How are they going to write the letter? Do they have experience with other TN professors? If so, then they already know what to do.
 
Hi nelsona,

They have no other TN professors at the University.
However, creating the letter seams like a No Brainer if they just follow the guidelines at the embassy website:
http://www.usembassy-mexico.gov/eng/evisas_nafta.html

My question is more towards the way the interviewing consul will look at my case.
Do the prefer applications prepared by attorneys?
Will hiring an attorney increase my chances on getting the visa?

By application I mean all the paperwork required: Employment letter, DS-156 form, Evidence.

Many people have told me that it's more likely to get a visa if the application is created by an immigration attorney because it looks more 'serious' and 'professional'.
Is this true?
 
Since the vast majority of folks her are Cdn, we never go to a Consulate, except perhaps for a TD visa for spouse, which is even a "less-brainer" than for TN.

However, TN was designed to be simple. The letter is simple, the forms are simple. They don't need wherefore's and party of the second parts. 2 paragraphs, 3 sentences, and that's it. Your degree speaks for itself.

Who are these 'many people' that have such knowledge of the working of the US consulate? And if you trusted them enough to ask them, why not just do as they say already?
 
The Mexican Rumour mill......very powerful advice lobby....see it all the time in news......Someone gets scammed and it's always the same thing "She told me it would all be okay, just sign here and then we never saw her again". All the while the documents were in English and nobody could read or write a word of it. Sorry, I'm in one of my cynical moods. Stop listening to everyone else and go based on fact - not rumours and inuendo.
 
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