Contract
A print version of the following contract is sent to our
clients after they retain our firm.
RETAINER AGREEMENT: K-1 VISA (USCIS ONLY)
This retainer agreement will confirm the terms upon which
you have retained our firm to represent you in connection
with immigration and related matters. The services to be rendered
will consist of securing the receipt by your fiancee
of a K-1 visa to enter the United States. The specific services
to be provided are as follows:
1. USCIS Forms Preparation
Our office will prepare all USCIS forms for you based
on the information and documents you and your fiancee
provide us. Upon completion, we will send your forms to you
for signature by express mail.
2. Collection of Form Data from Fiancee
A member of our office (including overseas staff) will
contact your fiancee to obtain all biographical information
required for the USCIS petition, unless such information has
already been obtained by you.
3. Supporting Document Advice
Our office will provide you and your fiancee
with all necessary advice regarding the collection of supporting
documents for the USCIS petition.
4. USCIS Application Preparation
In the interest of expediting USCIS review of your K-1
visa petition, our office will prepare your petition according
to the highest professional standards, and every effort will
be made to make the application as complete, accurate and
easy to review as possible, so that the USCIS official is
encouraged to approve the application as soon as possible.
5. Contact with USCIS
Our office will handle all telephone, mail, and fax contact
with the USCIS. In extraordinary circumstances, we may ask
you to voluntarily contact the USCIS to aid our office's efforts
to expedite your case. Your voluntary agreement to undertake
such contact will not be deemed as a failure by our firm to
adhere to the terms of this agreement.
6. Opening Provisional File
Once USCIS approval has been received, we will contact
the U.S. Embassy to open a provisional file for your case.
We will also request that the State Department background
checks be commenced. GENERAL SERVICES / PROVISIONS:
7. Client Updates
We will keep you closely advised of all significant developments
in the progress of your case. We will initiate contact to
advise you of the following events, among others: (a) Our
successful contact with your fiancee to obtain all
necessary biographical information (b) Receipt by us of your
and/or your fiancee's documents and other supporting
items (c) Our mailing to you of your completed USCIS forms
(d) Our submission by express mail of your USCIS petition
(e) Arrival of USCIS Receipt Notice of your petition with
case number (f) I-797 Approval Notice of your petition (g)
Request by our office to embassy for the opening of provisional
file for your case
8. Attorney Accessibility
You can expect to have access to an attorney during normal
working hours, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,
Eastern Time, excluding holidays. Should a specific attorney
you desire to speak with be engaged at the time of your telephone
call, you can expect a return telephone call within 24 hours
(not including weekends and holidays), except in such cases
where extraordinary circumstances beyond the control of the
attorney make such a call impossible.
9. Expedited Case Processing
Every reasonable effort will be made to expedite your
case promptly and efficiently. Please understand, however,
that government bureaucracy errors or workload problems beyond
our office's control can sometimes slow the processing of
a case. We will, however, work proactively with the government
agencies involved to minimize the impact on your case of any
such government errors or delays.
10. Attorney Ethics
We expect that all information given by you or your fiancee
to our firm, either orally or in writing, will be accurate
to the best of your knowledge. If we discover that any information
you supply us is willfully inaccurate or false, we will immediately
withdraw from representing you as required by law.
11. Attorney Fee
You will be charged a flat fee of $850.00 for the K-1
visa, plus $100 for each child invited as a K-2 beneficiary.
This presumes that the facts are as you represented them and
that no material facts have been withheld by you or your fiancee.
12. Refunds
If either you or your fiancee withdraws the
K-1 petition, we will refund you the unused portion of your
attorney fee based on the percentage completion of our work
at the time of withdrawal, but not to exceed one half the
full retainer fee.
13. Expenses
We will not bill you for our office expenses associated
with processing your case (e.g. express mail charges, telephone
charges, copying costs, et cetera). You will separately pay
all required government fees and medical examination fees.
14. Translations
Should you or your fiancee request that our
office perform translations of Russian or Ukrainian language
documents, the charge will be $30.00 per document translated.
We appreciate the confidence expressed by you in selecting
our firm to act as your counsel in connection with this matter.
AGREED TO AND ACCEPTED BY:
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client name
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John F. Roth
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