Laurie Y Wu

Laurie Y Wu

5.0
Rating: 7.1

Licensed for 16 years

Immigration Lawyer at Old Bridge, NJ
Practice Areas: Immigration

16 Rebecca Court, Old Bridge, NJ

About Laurie

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Free Consultation

$0 first 20 minutes


Payment Methods

  • Cash
  • Check
  • Credit Card

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Licenses

Licensed in New Jersey for 16 years

State: New Jersey

Acquired: 2009

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Law Office of Laurie Y. Wu

16 Rebecca Court, Old Bridge, NJ, 08857

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291 Client Reviews

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Showing 26 - 30 of 30 reviews | Advocacy

Posted by Jorge S. | December 04, 2015 | Hired Attorney

Highly recommend Laurie!!!

Laurie helped us with two cases, one for my son's US citizenship and my fiancée's visa application. She was very experienced in our matter, Laurie was there whenever we had a question and replied prompted with all the information we needed. She handled our case very well and followed through till the... very end. We are really glad we had Laurie help us through this and highly recommend her. Thank you!!

Posted by Jean | October 21, 2015 | Hired Attorney

A Great and Devoted Attorney. I would like to give A+++ rating if possible

Many people may have the feeling that gaining trust is so difficult—it may take years on building a trusted relationship, while losing trust is so easy—probably just over seconds. I don’t think it would be ever the case for Laurie. Laurie gained my trust when I received her first email in 2012 inst...ructing me in great detail about how to be prepared for going through the fiancée visa process, and we worked for several months since then until I received my visa to the US. After I moved in the US, I had some difficulties, and I felt so helpless and hopeless, luckily I found Laurie when I had hardest time in my life. Although I was not Laurie’s customer and Laurie was very busy at the time when I found her, Laurie spoke to me on the phone and wrote me emails, I was so moved also impressed by her caring heart, inspiring words and great respect on people. I made up my mind immediately that I would like to hire Laurie again when I need to go through immigration process two years later, and I did. What Laurie did actually was far beyond an immigration attorney would do, for she cares people more than anything else, and she always provide quality service: 1. Sense of urgency and work efficiency Laurie always provides quick response no matter what I asked for. She worked out everything for me very efficiently. In the event of tight schedule that prevented her from writing back to me with detailed information, she would give me a quick update letting me know when she would write me again with more details. 2. Professionalism and knowledgeable Laurie is very professional and knowledgeable. She always gives me very clear answers no matter what questions asked, or no matter what concerns I had. When she was working on my case, she paid great attention to all details and checked everything very carefully to assure the accuracy of the information. 3. Accountability and reliability Laurie is very accountable and kept her commitment. To assure my application could be submitted as quick as possible to unload my burdens, Laurie even didn’t take day off like many people did during the holiday season until the last minutes when she needed to catch up the Christmas Eve with her family. 4. Respect on people, support and encouragement When I reconnected and talked to Laurie, I was unemployed, Laure didn’t judge me and her words were so encouraging and inspiring, she always has faith that I could go back to career even I myself found it so difficult in such a new country. Her positive attitude influence me to be positive, and after I went back to career, she provided me with so strong support through her loving heart and doing more beyond the scope of her responsibility—she even helped me with dealing with car accident and other personal stuff. 5. Diversity and inclusive Laurie speaks English and Cantonese, and some Mandarin as well. Culture difference may add to people’s difficulty for communication. Laurie has excellent knowledge of cultures cross nations and has great experience in dealing with culture difference. I had zero problem of communicating with Laurie, actually in the course of time I have been enjoying more and more working with Laurie together on my immigration case. In addition to her communication skills with me, Laurie has shown effective communication with immigration office. She rescheduled our finger-print when the original date and places didn’t work well for us, and made things very easy for us. I agree that building trust usually is not easy, but Laurie is the attorney I can put full trust on and she is the one who I would like to refer to my friends or anyone else who needs immigration help. After having gone through everything, I simply felt relief that I found Laurie and had her help.

Posted by anonymous | May 04, 2015

all we had hoped for in our attorney

Ms. Laurie Wu helped my fiancé and I with his fiancé visa case. We consider ourselves very lucky to have her assistance. She came to successfully assist us in our case with a significant burden of proof: an older woman living in the United States applying for her younger fiancé from Middle East. Orig...inally, I had spent weeks taking to immigration lawyers from different states (23 to be exact)! After speaking to them all, Laurie Wu stood out the most. We could not decide on a very important question: should we apply for a fiancé visa or apply for a marriage visa. Some attorneys sounded very pessimistic about the outcome of our case and some advised on the type of visa without knowing much about us. Laurie asked us many questions regarding our background and was the only attorney who asked me to send her a picture of us together before she advised on which type of visa would be best for our case. Then, Unfortunately I was ill advised by a close friend to go with a big name attorney she knew, an attorney who supposedly had years of experience and a big firm! It was an awful experience during which 5 months of our precious time was wasted and accomplished so very little. We were going through lots of frustrating days when I remembered this soft spoken lawyer, the attorney originally I had liked. Laurie Wu was all we had hoped for in our attorney. We found her to be very informative, trustworthy, honest and intelligent yet humble and easy to talk to. In a case of age difference and the woman being the older partner, she remained very professional, nonjudgmental, and supportive. Time and time again, I was surprised by her logical thinking, clear vision, and attention to details. With her calm, organized and logical thinking I always felt much better after talking to her. Despite some of my challenging questions, she always provided answers and proposed solutions to my satisfaction. Her prompt written and oral instructions were always clear which helped us tremendously with the process. I don't know what more to say than having her was vital to our case. She was simply there for us, and we will never forget what a tough and detailed process she got us through and the support she gave us. Now, we are delighted to work with Laurie to finish up my fiancé’s adjustment of status papers.

Posted by P. Dworak | October 20, 2014

Review - Laurie Wu

I am very pleased with how Laurie Wu has handled our case. She is very prompt with replies and easy to get in touch with. She is professional and knowledgeable and also easy to talk to. She seems to really care and has gone out of her way to support us and be available when issues arise. I would high...ly recommend her.

Posted by Terry | September 29, 2014

Immigration Attorney

Laurie has worked on two immigration matters (green card and citizenship) for me and my wife in the past 3 years. She has always answered emails and calls promptly, usually within an hour or two. When the USCIS made a mistake and scheduled my wife's citizenship interview half way across the country,... Laurie followed up with USCIS and kept us updated on the progress. She guided us through the entire legal process, provided constant updates and we could not be happier with the results!

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Experience

Rating:  7.1 (Very Good)

Work Experience

2013 - Present

Owner, Law Office of Laurie Y. Wu, LLC

2009 - 2013

Attorney, Roth Immigration Law Firm

2003 - 2006

Paralegal, Davis Polk & Wardwell

Associations

2013 - Present

New Jersey State Bar Association

Member

2009 - Present

American Immigration Lawyers Association

Member

Sample of Legal Cases

CR-1 spousal via approval - Guangzhou, China

CR-1 visa approval

K-1 fiancee visa approval - Moscow, Russia

K-1 visa approved

K-1 fiancee visa approval - Guangzhou, China

K-1 visa approved

K-1 fiancee visa approval - Manila, Philippines

K-1 visa approved

Tourist Visa Approved - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

B1/B2 visa approved

Tourist Visa Approved - Shanghai, China

B1/B2 visa approved

IR5 parent visa approval - Kyiv, Ukraine

IR5 visa approved

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Education

2009

Rutgers, State University of New Jersey School of Law - Newark

JD - Juris Doctor

2003

Drew University

BA - Bachelor of Arts

Languages

Chinese, Hakka

Cantonese

Mandarin

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