What’s your opinion on each of the following immigration practices:
1) Fragomen
2) BAL
3) Ogletree
4) Jackson Lewis

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I don’t know others but my employer uses Fragomen and I recall sending a full page long of corrections for my H1B application that they filled out. Lots of errors like, passport number copied wrong (I have 2 passports), other basic information like previous addresses, missing a digit.

I ended up filing “spouse based” GC and my employer offered to file it for us using Fragomen. I declined and we retained our own attorney (partly because I don’t want any stipulations, but a major reason is… I don’t want to have to check their work).

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Best of luck!! It’s been a long wait for all of us I’m hoping we all get good news soon :)

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All are top notch lawyers compared to EY Law

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I think EY law has a horrible reputation in the industry. They charge the least, pay their attorneys the least, and provide the worst work (I have fixed prior EY cases before).

I cannot speak for all EY law naysayers.
But in my case, they did everything in a timely manner and filed premium processing. So, no significant complaints

They are slow at notifying and replying at times though.. which is the case with most of the law firms listed above.

Ogletree consistently misses the deadlines they establish themselves. And they are already far longer that the legal requirements.

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