Samira Tehranchi-Nichols

Since the termination letter has been signed by her, I am more confident in writing this review, as I am not held down by the attorney-client relationship (as well as seeing her write details about her previous deals with clients including monetary details of the contract). First, we spoke in Novemb...er 2017, and she was not sure about my case and prioritised other clients of hers and didn't speak to me for months. Next, I emailed her January 2018 and she didn't respond, prioritising other clients. End of February is when she decided to finally speak, and it was all sweet talk. From March till the next 10 months I made continuous payments and she never really reached back all these months. recommendations on October, and then didn't respond. Finally, after a lot of hustle I managed to get 6 recommendations written and approved (given I wrote most of the recommendations because it was my field of expertise). The only way you can get any work done from her is by sweet talking and showing her that she is best at her game. Her strategy is to play busy, she will cancel calls, say she has called you (when she actually hasn't), not get back to emails, so that you have to either give her the most importance or sweet talk to her (even if she is one of the most unprofessional person I have had to deal with). After getting 6 recommendations I was so tired of all the sweet talking that I decided to see whether she would ever get back, schedule calls or even pay importance to the case. The answer is nope! In these few years, whenever I have reached back to her, all she uses phrases like "don't consider the case as 5-6 years old, consider it as a new one", "you were not confident in your case". I reminded her that if I wasn't confident in my case,why would I have invested so much money (given she charges more than other higher qualified attorneys ) by doing a careful market survey. After 5 years of extreme unprofessional behaviour and not having the case progress at all, I got hit by the massive tech layoffs, I had no choice but to leave US. Finding a job in this scenario staying abroad becomes even more difficult, and my mental health was on the verge of a brekadown (given I was not close to the bay area and relocating within 60 days and finding a job was impossible). She offered me a termination letter citing she has moved to a big law firm and would return only 25% of the money which I paid to her. After all the hassle, unprofessionalism and a chance to have stayed in the country and continue my job search, I receive a letter of termination with only 25% of the money. Leave aside the pain in dealing with her owing to her extreme unprofessionalism, the monetary loss in not having a chance to search for a job is even more. I wouldn't have written this review if I hadn't gone through extreme mental exhaustion whenever I had to deal with her, including extreme unprofessional behaviour and the last nail in the coffin with the termination letter. I think the only reason why she gets away with this behaviour is because she knows that immigrants don't get back and sue lawyers who have at least temporarily contributed to ruining people's careers.

here is my story, I hired her 1 1/2 year ago. as everybody mentioned sweet talk at consultation and then no response. she will not send out any documents until you keep bugging her. no answers to phone, text, email and no respect to time or deadline. she just don't care. I an not writing this review... based on approval or denial of my case, but its the overall frustration dealing with her. she lies back and forth like no tomorrow. I am sorry but she needs to be more organized and put her self together before dealing with anybody's immigration issue, which I am sure is of paramount importance to us.

Samira Nichols is extremely unprofessional with her clients. She will be very prompt in her first consultation and till she makes you sign the contract. Once you sign it, you will not hear anything from her. She will come up with creative excuses to dodge meetings (emergency dentist appointment, sick... mother, car accident). I hired Samira but she never completed my case nor had any concern about me in this especially turbulent times for immigration. Extremely unprofessional and callous attitude towards clients. The only reason I hired her was due to good recommendations in Linkedin but if you see carefully these are from several years past. Now Samira is not the same. She only wants your money. Stay away from this attorney! She should be debarred from practicing.

My application was long due and she still did not send out my application. She will convince you that you can pay fees with USCIS and then take her sweet time to send out the application. Actually its been a month and she still hasn't done anything. She had numerous excuses. If you want to save money... and a lot of headache find another lawyer..NOT WORTH IT AT ALL!

She will stop responding to any email after you sign the contract. She only responded to me after 2 months and said that she did not even realized that I am sending her emails. She did not write or help with any recommendation letter. I do not know what she wrote in my petition letter. She never show...ed it to me. Why? Any reason. Only one that she did not do good job on it. I got RFE and then she stopped responding to me. My case was strong. 20 papers, 400 citations and Editor for many journals. Stay away from her. She should be banned as a lawyer.