Joy Alegria Haynes

Joy was my immigration attorney. My case was more complicated than expected, but she knew exactly how to handle every single requests from USCIS. I am not sure if I would have gotten my Green Card without her. Joy and her team were always extremely responsive, and clear about the process. She charged no extra fees and she was always available for questions. I would certainly recommend Haynes Novick Immigration to anyone looking for an immigration lawyer. She really care about her clients.

Let me start by saying that Joy is truly a joy to work with! My wife and I availed of Joy’s services to file for a marriage based green card. Joy was recommended to us by a friend who had recently gone through the same process and gotten his green card. She brings a wealth of experience in this area. She was very responsive through emails and/or phone calls and guided us very well at every step of the way of this lengthy process - through all the paperwork, performing a detailed review, answering all our questions as we worked through collating the information she needed to fill out the paperwork, through preparing for the interview, gathering all the documentation/evidence, organizing it to be presented to the immigration office during the interview. Once we had our interview notice, she took the time to conduct a mock interview session walking us through how it would be in reality. We had a fantastic experience with her and felt we were in very safe hands throughout the process. Needless to say, we would highly recommend her for someone needing help with immigration related attorney services.

I retained Joy for my Permanent Residence application, and again for my Naturalization. Incredibly responsive (replies within minutes sometimes) and always professional, Joy advised me through what could have been a labyrinthine process. I have dealt with many immigration advisors in the past, usually employer-provided, and I consider Joy the model all should follow. You can trust her, and I'm glad I did.

My husband and I worked with Joy for my green card application, removal of conditions, and naturalization, and we couldn't have been happier. Joy was a pleasure to work with, and was always extremely accommodating and responsive to our (many!) questions. We would absolutely recommend her to anyone looking for an immigration attorney.

Joy helped my wife and me to complete our Green Card process (EB2). We already had our ETA 9089 certified with the help of another lawyer but when it came to status change, it was more complicated due to some factors and we were afraid that he cannot handle it. One of the reasons being that he is very careless and unprofessional. We always had to try our best to study the whole Green Card process and review all the forms he prepared ourselves to notify him about hundreds of mistakes. We got really lucky to still have the ETA approved by his work but we decided to stop leaving it to chance by looking for a new lawyer. We searched online and found that Joy is one of the highest rated immigrant lawyer in DC area. When we talked to our friends, we realize that one friend also consulted with Joy and she gave Joy a lot of compliments, so we decided to contact Joy. I called Joy first but couldn’t reach her. However she called me back within 30 minutes. She spent the next 30 minutes talking to me to understand our situation and gave me general advices regarding our case. And it was free! Impressed with how professional, knowledgeable and responsive she was, I asked her to officially consult on our case. We sent over all our documents but she was busy with some other cases at the time so she promised a time to give us feedbacks on our case after reviewing it. And she did as promised, very on time! Given the fact that our previous lawyer was able to get our ETA 9089 approved and Joy not knowing how unprofessional he was, she even suggested us that maybe we don’t need her help and just let him finish the process. That’s when we know Joy is a very work ethic oriented lawyer as well! Quickly we decided to have Joy take over our case. To summarize, Joy is: 1. Knowledgeable: Not only she is knowledgeable about the whole Green Card process but also about other visas/programs which we were involved in such as J1/J2, CBT, OPT, marriage at an embassy, etc. … 2. Professional: Joy is always on time, always keeps promises and lets us know in advance if she out of office. She also always follows up to stay on top of everything. 3. Very responsive and effective in communication: Over the course of 7 months, we wrote almost 200 emails back and forth (!). Joy usually responds within 30 minutes and if it’s rush, 5 minutes. She’ll address all our questions in the very next email. 4. Diligent and meticulous: Most forms that Joy prepared had no mistakes. All we have to do is that if we have some concerns here and there we would talk to her to see if adjustments need to be made. 5. A great planner: Joy always has everything ready for our next step. From when USCIS transferred our application to NVC for visa processing and notified us, it just took us another week to submit all the papers to NVC. Preparation for this already took place 6 weeks prior! Time was sensitive to us, so we really appreciate that Joy can help us to save a lot of time by planning ahead! We asked Joy to take over in January and now it’s July, here we are with our Green Cards! The process went so smoothly and quickly that we cannot be happier with Joy. We are just really lucky that we found Joy. And also thanks a lot to all the accurate reviews that we found online on Google, LinkedIn, Yelp and Avvo. We will post this review on all those sites hoping someday it will help others just like it did help us.

Joy and her firm helped my wife get a Green Card seamlessly, painlessly and unbelievably quickly! We had a very complicated situation as I was an American citizen living abroad but planning on returning to the States to study for my PhD. My uncle who is a lawyer recommended Haynes Novick when I asked him about our situation. And what a great recommendation it was! We had our consultation with Joy on February 7th and my wife got her green card approved on June 16th of the same year, unbelievable. Absolutely could not be more pleased! Joy was so helpful, working with us and accommodating us even though we were 14 time zones away. We'd communicate via Skype and email at odd hours due to the time difference but we were always impressed by her responsiveness and friendliness. Everything was prepared on time, explained thoroughly and completely and went off without a hitch. We asked a lot of stupid questions and always got immediate, thoughtful and helpful responses. Joy is a pleasure to work with, you can immediately tell that she cares about you and your case. I have to go back to the States in July and we were afraid that my wife and I would have to live apart for a year or more while we worked on the immigration process. Or that we would go together, but she would be unable to work which would have been a real financial hardship on us. We still can't believe that she has her green card already and that we can move together with no worries! We will always be thankful to Joy and her team. Positively cannot recommend highly enough!

At the referral of friends, Joy Haynes of Haynes-Novick Immigration provided invaluable help in steering us through a permanent residence application on the basis of a same-sex marriage. It was a pleasure to have worked with her over the course of nearly a year, from her initial consultation to outline our immigration options, through to our marriage and subsequent petition for alien relative and adjustment of status application, and finally to our marriage interview at U.S.C.I.S. and conditional permanent residence status. From the start, Joy was exhibited the sincere interest, expertise, competence, and unhurried throughness that prepared us for what might follow and for a timeline with some built-in uncertainties. We were put at ease in a sometimes unnerving process knowing that we had Joy as our attorney, and never felt that we enjoyed anything less than her full (and immediate) attention at every step. We are happy to recommend Joy Haynes for her professionalism, knowledge and experience, and genuine care and interest she takes with her clients.

Joy Haynes and her paralegal Leo Santana are absolutely the best you can get. We found Joy on Yelp and cannot be happier with our decision to hire her and her firm. 1. Joy is extremely knowledgable. She knows every part of the law and always gives the best advice. 2.Joy always gets back to you in a timely manner. She is always available. We have been using her services since September, and since then she always gets back to us in couple of hours, which is absolutely amazing. 3.Working with Joy and Leo feels absolutely amazing. We are always guided in the right direction. We would strongly recommend Joy Haynes if you need an immigration lawyer.

I found Haynes Novick Immigration on Yelp. I will be eternally thankful that my first phone call was to Haynes Novick Immigration and that Joy Haynes picked up the phone. From our first conversation Joy was compassionate, clear and organized. This combination was exceedingly important to me. Immigration is personal matter and Joy treats the issue with the compassion and respect this matter needs. Joy guided my husband and i through the marriage-based green card process over an 11 month period. While working through this process, i had questions related to a career move and Joy even provided me with guidance about questions i had related to that. The following characteristics are the reasons i would recommend Joy Haynes and Haynes Novick Immigration to anyone i know: 1. Joy knows her stuff. This is evident in the way she explains immigration guidance. I've worked with several immigration lawyers over 16 years and Joy is by-far the best. 2. She communicated with us constantly. We never had to remind Joy about a response. She always responded to us. 3. The firm is well equipped to gather necessary information from clients. When we signed-on with Joy, they had packets of information with clear guidance on what we needed to provide to them to move forward. This minimized any back and forth and made the information transfer process extremely smooth. 4. Lastly, but to us was the most important to us: In Joy we felt we were working with a lawyer that truly had our best interests at heart. We trust Joy immensely. Thank You Joy.

I was referred to Haynes Novick Immigration through a client of mine. I was looking at starting the Green Card process through employment for both myself and my wife. After my first meeting with Jim and Joy, I knew that this law firm was going to everything to help me out. It took sometime to convince my work (no fault of Joy and her team) about sponsoring my application. Once I got all the approvals sorted out, Joy and her team went to action. Preparing documents, asking questions and making sure that everything was perfect. Whenever I had a question, no matter how ridiculous it was, I got an answer immediately. We predicted that our case would take a decent amount of time, however by diligent work from Joy we got our Green Card in record time (From start to finish, 1 year). I cannot thank Joy enough for how much she has helped both my wife and I, if you are looking for an immigration lawyer who is entirely on your side and will fight for you every step of the way - look no further.