Immigration law is complicated. A major reason is that it changes so much. In law school, when studying torts or property law, often students read seminal cases from the British House of Lords and “modern” cases from fifty years ago. An immigration lawyer can very seldom rely on an old case’s relevance. Immigration law is statute, agency, and court driven. Statutes and regulations change all the time and courts issue decisions all the time. Compounding the difficulty is that the…

  One of the worst things about my job is talking to people who have been ripped off by other lawyers. It is bad because it is demoralizing that there are so many miscreants among my peers. Ripping off the rich is one thing, but ripping off poor foreigners is quite another. I remember in law school, my professor for professional responsibility once posed the question of why there are so many lawyer jokes – essentially asking why it seems…