Free Consultation
Over the years, I’ve often had immigration related questions that I couldn’t find answers for despite hours of searching on forums and the Internet. Worse, the forums would often provide ambiguous information or plainly incorrect advice. I wouldn’t want to spend $100 for a full consultation yet and would have loved to just get on the phone with a professional immigration attorney for a few minutes to get some clarification without going in circles. If you can relate to that, there’s good news for you.
Two of the best attorneys in the United States that I know of have agreed to do 15-minute consultations for FREE for Endlesswait.com readers. Most sites charge $79 for 15 minutes of consultation (see this one for instance ). Yours for free, thanks to the generosity of our Attorney friends.
Attorney Matthew Oh - Author of one of the first immigration blogs and leading Immigration Law Practice for over 27 years. He writes DAILY on his website http://www.immigration-law.com and presents up to date Breaking News relevant to immigrants. His website has received over 25 million visitors over the last 10 years and continues to be one of the most popular immigration related sites on the Internet.
Attorney Shah Peerally - Founder and Managing Attorney of the Shah Peerally Law Group at http://www.PeerallyLaw.com, based in Newark, CA. Shah also hosts the Shah Peerally Law Show on radio at 1170 AM every Monday from Noon to 1 PM where he answers live questions from immigrants. http://www.usafricanindianradio.com/
We can’t thank them enough for taking their valuable time to provide free consultations to our readers. They’ll each do TWO 15-Minute Consultations each month, starting July 2010. So that makes a total of 4 15-MINUTE CONSULTATIONS PER MONTH.
Here’s how it works:
1. At present, this service will be on a FIRST COME FIRST SERVED basis. The first four valid comments that conform to the terms mentioned below will be awarded the free consultation. All others will be added to the waiting list. If we find more attorneys willing to join this program (which I am already working on), we’ll let the ones in the waiting list know. Also, if any of the first four do not respond to email promptly (within 1 business day) we will award the spots to the next on the waiting list. Do not hesitate to comment and get added to the waiting list. We see a lot of no-shows
People from one month’s waiting list will NOT automatically get considered for the spots in the following month. You will have to re-post a comment to ensure that you are still interested in the consultation.
2. To be considered, post a comment below mentioning your interest in scheduling a 15-minute attorney consultation. Make sure you include your real email account that you check regularly. All correspondence regarding this service will be sent to this email. Provide a brief summary of your question in your comment. Without that, your comment will be considered invalid. If we find that your question is easily answered via freely available material, we might point that out. If you are not comfortable discussing your case on a public forum, please mention that and we’ll review your details via email. If you are awarded a consultation, you will be informed via email and your name will be updated at the bottom of this post.
3. Only one consultation per person in 3 months.
4. You can call only about YOUR cases, not about a friend’s case or another family member’s case. There will be no exceptions to this rule.
I also strongly recommend subscribing to our newsletter by entering your Name and Email Address in the box at the top right of this page. Any notices regarding this service will be sent to that list.
Disclaimers:
1. The attorneys have specifically asked me to include that the consultation will not constitute legal advice. Attorneys are prohibited from giving legal advice over the electronic medium under the attorneys’ professional code since it can mislead and harm the person by giving wrong advice or opinion without review of full facts and circumstances surrounding the person’s case.
2. Endlesswait.com is NOT owned or directly affiliated to any Law Firms in any way. Endlesswait.com does not receive any compensation for the above service and neither do the attorneys.
3. Please CALL ON TIME. The Attorneys have been VERY kind to provide this help for us. Please respect their time and call right on time and hang up exactly 15 minutes later.
4. Needless to say, but just because this is free doesn’t mean the attorney’s time is not valuable. Also, this does not include any free email follow ups or such. Everything beyond the 15 minute consultation is between you and the attorney. Endlesswait.com or I don’t take any responsibility for consultation that is provided to you during the 15 minutes.
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JULY 2010 SPOTS AWARDED TO: Ema, Madhu M, Karthik, Ankur Goswami. JULY IS CLOSED.
AUGUST 2010 SPOTS AWARDED TO: Sravan, Azeez, Mayur and Adrian. AUGUST IS CLOSED.
SEPTEMBER 2010 SPOTS NOW OPEN.
Pls continue to comment even if you see that the current month is closed, so you get on the waiting list. If I see more demand, I’ll try to get more attorneys signed up.









July 14th, 2010 at 9:02 am
Profile :I have a 3 years Bachelors and 2 years NIIT. 12 Years IT Experience with last 8+ years in US in the same technologies.
Priority Date (2007)
I have EAD/AP and H1b. My questions are :
Can I change from EB3 to EB2.
Does the evaluations done for H1b work for Green cards.
I also thought of getting another 1 year or 2 years PGDCA if that would help but it was mentioned online somewhere that the 5 years experience for EB2 should be after achieving the US bachelors or equivalent.
Non Critical Question : I have EAD/AP and H1b , i need to travel to Hongkong for work, as my H1b visa stamp has expired can i travel on my AP and later on my visit to india sometime this year get my H1b stamped.
July 14th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Ankur,
I’ve replied to you via Email. So you are the 4th spot for July!! Congratulations. Please reply to me within 1 business day so we can schedule our consultation. If I don’t hear from you by then, I’ll have to move on to the next person.
We are seeing that people reply but don’t follow up and promptly schedule their consultations. I hope that will change because this program will fail unless everyone respects each other’s time.
Thanks,
Srini
July 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Just finished the telephone consultation with Mr Shah . It was great and got my questions answered very prudently ;Will definitely recommend .
July 17th, 2010 at 11:03 am
Thank you for this opportunity. I would like to get a spot for a free consultation in July or August if possible.
thanks
Sravan
July 18th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Thanks Shravan. The July spots are all taken at this time. The four spots for August open on August 1st.
Pls Check back and post your comment on August 1 for August please. If you know of an attorney that might be interested in joining this program, please feel free to bring this up with them, I’d appreciate that!
Srini
July 30th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
AUGUST SPOTS ARE OPEN. ONLY THREE SPOTS THIS MONTH SO FAR. SRAVAN, YOU’LL BE #1 if you can just confirm that you are still interested.
August 2nd, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Thank you. Yes I am still interested in the consultation
August 2nd, 2010 at 3:37 pm
If possible I would like to communicate my problem via email
August 4th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Thank you so much for doing this consultation. Could you please consider me for a consultation for August. Thank you.
August 4th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Hi Sravan and Azeez, I’ve written to you via Email.
Thanks,
Srini
August 6th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Srini,
Thank you so much. The consultation was very helpful.
August 16th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
HI,
My employer(real employer not consultant ) has filed my h1 and its in initial review. so ,
1) If i want to leave the company when is the last date to revoke the H1, so that i can stay on OPT.
2)Am i still eligible to apply for H1 next year ?
August 19th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Hi, is slot #4 for august taken yet? I am a Canadian citizen working in the US on an O-1 Visa for the last 2 years and I would like to speak to an attorney regarding my options for getting a green card, i would rather discuss the specifics of my case over email than posting them here,
thanks so much, this is a great website-
August 30th, 2010 at 10:35 am
Hi Adrian and Mayur, I’ve written to you via email and your consultations are being arranged.
August 30th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
I would like to ask your advice about derivative citizenship. I’ll be emailing the details.
August 31st, 2010 at 5:45 am
Hi,
My AOS is pending since July 2007 in EB3 ROW (PD Oct 2005). Recently, my children (born in US)were awarded Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) due to financial hardships. The amount was issued in my name. Will that be a problem in approval?
Would like to apply for consultation spot.
Thanks,
August 31st, 2010 at 10:39 am
Hi Chris and Abu, Your cases are eligible. I’ve emailed you directly and working to set up your consultation.
Thanks,
Srini
September 3rd, 2010 at 7:01 am
Hi,
I am on EB3 category, I-140 approved, awating for I-485 flooding gates to open. What happens if I change my employer now? Can I go over to the new employer, without affecting my I-140. My old employer is willing to continue the GC process for me.
any idea on when the dates would be opened for filing I-485? I have been hearing lot of comments about it this year, starting Jan 2010.
Thank you,
Jayashree.
September 3rd, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Jayashree,
You can always move jobs via H1-B transfer. Your GC petition will remain valid as long as the sponsoring employer does not revoke the I-140.
And then you brought up the million dollar qn, didn’t you?
Except for the powers that be at the DOL noone knows when bulletin dates will move and in which direction.