Legal Question in Immigration Law in Virginia

need help

We have two problems, We need to take our current Attorney to court or at least we feel that we might have a case. After close to five years of working with

Mr. Justo an immigration attorney we have been abandoned by him with in

the last month. During my wife's journey through the web maze of

immigration to get her residence papers, we have been completed all the

needed legal paper work, gone to ever interview and we have been waiting

close to 2 yrs to get a final decision from immigration on my wife's

residence papers. Now we found out that Mr. Justo was not licensed to

practice law in Virgina just DC. His last email was accusatory and

slanderous not only us but the office of Congressman Goodlate. We want to

know if we have any legal right to take Mr. Justo to trail to get our

money back for practicing law illegally in Virginia, emotional stress,

harassment, neglect and abandonment. I guess we would be looking for a

civil trail lawyer. He has left us with out any legal representation now

that we need help to wade through the un


Asked on 4/04/09, 7:12 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: need help

Since immigration law is federal law, as long as

a lawyer is licensed to practice law in the highest court of at least one U.S. jurisdiction, that's sufficient for him or her to practice immigration law.

In the situation described in your question, the lawyer did not need a Virginia law license to practice immigration law if he was licensed in DC.

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Answered on 4/05/09, 12:27 am


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