LUSCIOUS Statistics on Successful petitions and applications ?

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   Mark Robert Barr

   Denver Immigration Attorney

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   Answered February 21, 2013 10:49. Sounds suspicous. To start with--what types of petitions or applications? There are some types of benefits (asylum, I-601 waivers) with a comparatively low approval rate. But if you mean that 67% of all types of applications or petitions filed pro se are denied, there is no way that is true.

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   Stephen BermanPro

   Chicago Immigration Attorney

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   Answered February 21, 2013 10:49. I doubt it is on CIS's website, they are not likely to try to broadcast that information. However we do have statistics from removal proceedings and there the evidence shows a stunning difference in approval rates between those who are represented and those who are not. Many applications, like waivers, are very hard for laymen to understand and do correctly.

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   Rochelle Inger

   Suffern Immigration Attorney

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   Answered February 22, 2013 12:06. I agree with my colleagues.

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