Conklin, NY Immigration Law Firms & Lawyers

If this is a flat-fee agreement, your attorney should honor it, regardless of the move, and her new firm should be fine with that. If this is an hourly fee contract where she has not yet charged you for the work she will have to do between now and February, her agreement probably states that she has the right to change her rates (which usually are increased). So read the contract you signed with her; you should find the answers in it. If this was a flat fee and you want to hire a different attorney, but she has not yet done all the work she signed up to do, you may be entitled to a portion of your fee back. But if this is an hourly fee contract, technically, she is not required to continue representing you. With the immigration proceedings, if your case is already in court, usually she would need to seek the approval of the immigration court to withdraw from representation. As a practical matter, you probably don't want an attorney whom you must force to work for you anyway; so talk to her, see if her new law firm will honor her old agreement, and perhaps you and your attorney can come with some mutually acceptable terms. She has worked for you for four years; a move could be expected, and the new law firm probably wants her to charge higher fees, which is also generally alright.

With the exception not applicable here, confucian for any crime involving controlled substance leads to inadmissibility which can only be temporarily waived for a nonimmigrant entry under INA 212(d)(3). There is no immigrant waiver for that.