Robo_Olga:
In our case the price quoted was about $2200 for attorney’s fees, this didn’t include any of the filing fees. This attorney wouldn’t have handled anything with the Visa either but he would have accompanied us to the final immigration interview.
We ended up not hiring an attorney but we did have the very helpful people through our base legal who would look over any forms we wanted for free.
The reason we didn’t hire an immigration attorney is that he was very upfront with us that he didn’t know much about how the process for Canadians worked. We came in with a few specific questions which he didn’t know the answer too and tried unsuccessfully with us sitting right there to find the answer by typing our questions into google. Which we had tried at home but still charged us a few hundred just for his time.
As an aside when we went in for our interview he was there with another couple and they were denied. We were actually the first people approved since the previous week according to our interviewer and they had to go get the stamp out of the safe.
You may want to check out this message board, the people there were very helpful to us http://www.visapro.com/Message-Board/index.php ?
Thanks for the advice.
I think the ‘aside’ was a little unnecessary, but that’s me. Either way, thank you for the post.
Just making a point that hiring an attorney doesn’t mean you will be approved. Not to be mean but you really don’t seem to have researched this very much and you should. It’s complicated and expensive and if you are denied you may not be able to reapply for sometime.