Remond Atie

Bottom line, do NOT hire him for immigration cases. He clearly has no idea how the system works and when it is your future you are better off paying more money to a reputable company rather than trying to save money as this will eventually come back and cost you more! I hired Mr. Atie to represent ...my sister in an asylum case and he was very happy to take on the case. He made me fill out the paperwork asked me to look up articles that are relevant to the case and write the personal statement. He did not make ANY suggestions or revisions. They mailed the free application and charged me for the case then I never heard back from them other than that the case was received. He asked us to come to Detroit for the fingerprints which he claimed has to be done there. But when I called USCIS they said we can do it in Cleveland which we did. My sister was later on detained by immigration and he was absolutely no help in that either. I called him afterwards and I told him that she had an immigration court date scheduled in Cleveland A YEAR AHEAD OF TIME and specifically asked if he is willing to represent her or if I should transfer my case to a local lawyer. He said "we will be happy to represent her". Two weeks before the court date, I called him and he asked me to come physically to his office to talk about the case (I live 8 hours away) and when I asked if that can be done over the phone, he said I need to charge you for my travel and time or I cannot represent her, you better find someone local. So he basically wanted me to drive 16 hours to tell me this because his time is valuable and mine isn't!!! I asked him. He had more than a year to tell me that but he chose to wait until 10 days before the court date to be me on the spot and leave me under the mercy of local immigration lawyers who are now clearly charging way more than full fee to represent us because "our case was so poorly prepared that they need to work harder to repair the damage". I called him and expressed that I am not pleased with his services and asked for a partial refund since his office basically paid 6$ for the postage and that was it and charged me 2000$ (his down payment).