Steve Maggi

I signed a contract with Steve Maggi in 2011 to help me obtain a Visa to the United States for my wife. Having no experience going through this process, I trusted his experience and paid for his services in full. I was given a checklist in which I submitted ALL requested documents, some of which we...re lost by Mr. Maggi's office later in the process. I was not kept up-to-date as to the next step in the process, and became worried after waiting for approx. 6 months (May 23 to Nov 12) without having seen any real progress. At that time, I took it upon myself to contact the National Visa Center, who informed me they had not yet received anything about my case. This information was completely startling seeing as how I was being told by Mr. Maggi that there was nothing holding up the process. I then contacted Maggi to ask him what was going on. At that point, for the first time, I was told they were missing documents, one of which I had already sent to his office, another which was not on the original list of documents requested by his office. Based on his previous instructions, I had sent EVERY SINGLE document requested by his office months in advance. Seeing as how my wife was pregnant at the time, I asked if there was any possible way to expedite the process. After Maggi told me that it was impossible, I took it upon myself (again) to contact the NVC and was told my case could in fact be expedited due to extenuating circumstances. At that point, I dealt entirely with the NVC seeing as how I could not trust the lawyer I had contracted. I completed all the remaining steps of the visa with no assistance from Mr. Maggi. After all was said and done, I requested a refund for thousands of dollars from Mr. Maggi seeing as essentially no services were rendered on his end. He declined to refund me at all, and I discovered there was an arbitration agreement built in to the contract which only allows you to dispute the terms of the contract in the state of Florida. I decided to eat the cost rather than suing him for legal malpractice on the basis of negligence. Based on my experience, I would not recommend this lawyer to anybody trying to obtain a visa to the United States.