Durango, CO Immigration Law Firms & Lawyers

It’s against bar rules to charge an excessive fee. Accordingly the bar would want to know what services you hired counsel to perform. Was it a straight garden variety marriage petition or was it like an investor visa petition?

Best wishes upon your upcoming marriage. Some clarifications to your question are needed in order to respond. It sounds like you are planning to become married to a U.S. Citizen, who then will help you apply to "adjust status" to become a Lawful Permanent Resident (to get a "Green Card"). [Note: "change of status" refers to changing from one type of non-immigrant visa to another type of non-immigrant visa] If you are planning to apply to adjust status, then the next step in the analysis is to examine whether there may be any details about you and your spouse that might interfere with eligibility or might require unusual steps to be needed (such as obtaining and analyzing certified criminal court records, addressing problems or peculiarities with birth records or previous divorce records, etc.). Some immigration law firms, including mine, offer legal services on a "flat fee" basis so that a client will know the total expense from the very beginning, and a few immigration law firms, including mine, offer an initial consultation free of charge.