Lawrence Richard Holmes

My husband and I hired Lawrence R. Holmes for the AOS process. We worked with Yvonne. I live in a different state and was a little apprehensive about dealing with the firm through email, but she was very much a pleasure to work with. Very polite, and very informed. Yvonne told us everything needed fo...r the process, and provided us sources for obtaining different information when I didn't know where to find it. She made sure my husband and I knew just what to expect throughout. I would definitely hire this firm again.

My wife is a US citizen and I am a recently approved US permanent resident! After getting spontaneously married, we looked into filing our own visa petitions but it all seemed too complicated (and we each have Masters degrees!). A Google search returned Lawrence R Holmes, an attorney with almost 25 y...ears' experience in the field of obtaining K1 Visas. We noticed that they offered a free consultation so we gave them a call. After that first phone call with Richard Holmes, we were filled with confidence and requested the company's services soon after. Since then, Yvonne, the most friendly paralegal in the world, kept in touch frequently and answered any query we had pertaining to paperwork etc. She described the separate petitions that we would need to file and what evidence we would need for each. She was always very clear about what we had to do in emails and phone correspondence. She held our hands the whole way through the application process and even gave us some advice for our joint interview at the USCIS office. All in all, we were very happy with Lawrence R Holmes. We would recommend them to anyone going through a similar process. The biggest help was their flexibility in rescheduling payments. Whenever we knew that we couldn't make a full payment by a specific date, all we had to do was call and rearrange or split payments into even more smaller/manageable chunks.

I first discovered him online last summer when I was living in Yokohama, Japan and contemplating the bewildering intricacies of the I-864 Affidavit of Support form, which I had to fill out in order to get my Japanese wife an immigrant visa to my native America. I had been struggling with the DS-260 O...nline Visa Application form for about two weeks at that time, and it was a royal pain, a constant, never-ending irritation, but at least it looked like it was possible; it looked like eventually I might be able to get through that thing if I just kept my head down and my attention focused on the task long enough. But the I-864 Affidavit of Support form? No, that was NOT possible. The more I looked through the pages of that form the more I realized that I was caught in a terrible bind. I had no idea how to proceed through the bureaucratic gobbledygook of that form, especially since I was unemployed at that time, and had no income to prove that I was able to support my wife in the States. They were going to stop me, I knew; they were going to keep me from bringing my wife back to America. And then one night I discovered Lawrence Holmes online. He said, in his web page, that if I was having visa problems he was my answer. Immediately I sent him an email, basically outlining my problem: I couldn’t understand the I-864 Affidavit of Support form, I told him; I just couldn’t follow it. The only thing that was clear to me was that according to that form I didn’t have enough money to support my wife in the States, and so the government was not going to let her in; it was not going to give her an immigrant visa. I had an answer from him the next morning. “Even though you’re unemployed,” he said, “according to what you said in your email to me you have enough money in the bank to prove you can support your wife.” I was very surprised. “I do?” I said in a return email to him. “How do you figure?” And he wrote back and said, “call me as soon as you get to the States and I’ll tell you how it works.” To make a long story short, Lawrence Holmes did the impossible: he got my wife a visa; he did it because he knew how the system works. He knew that if you have a certain amount of cash in the bank you don’t need an income. Nobody at the embassy in Tokyo told me that, and the I-864 form didn’t tell me that, at least not in any way that I was able to understand, but Lawrence Holmes knew that. “You’ve got no problem,” he assured me, “none at all.” He’s expensive; he cost me $2,000; but it was cheap at the price because he saved my life. As soon as I signed the dotted line on the form he sent me, and paid him with my credit card, he turned me over to one of paralegals in his office, a woman named Yvonne. She was the one who did all the work, but she did it under his guidance. She filled out all the forms for me, gave me telephone numbers, email and postal addresses and URLs so that I could get my hands on any info I needed in a flash, explained all the intricacies of all the government workings to me, and…in the end she set my wife up with an interview at the Tokyo embassy in record time. She always answered every question I had instantly, either by email or telephone, and led me calmly, cheerfully by the hand through every single step of the way. Without Yvonne and Lawrence Holmes I never would have gotten my wife a visa. NEVER! But with them it was easy; it was just as easy as it could be. What more can I say?

I am so, so grateful that I decided to work with the office of Lawrence R. Holmes for the process of obtaining a K-1 fiancé visa. Before starting the process, a couple friends and internet sites told me it was an easy enough process and that it was possible to do it on my own. Well it may be possible..., but I doubt the process would have gone as smoothly and quickly if I had done it myself. It is a very complex and detailed process and there are so many opportunities to make little mistakes! Yvonne was assigned to our case and she is absolutely amazing. She always kept us up-to-date with the progress of our case and also prepared us for the next step well in advance. Yvonne was also very patient and kind in answering my many questions and concerns either via email or telephone. She is so great! I honestly don't know what I would have done without her help. For me, the price I paid was so worth the peace of mind having someone with so much experience work on my case, and now that the K-1 Visa is approved, I can rest easy knowing my best friend and future husband will be here soon! Thanks Yvonne!

Yvonne was very helpful and prompt in returning any questions we had. She was always a step ahead and showed interest in our case personally by asking how everything was going and wishing us luck on our interview. We wish she was ours for the whole case! My husband got his permanent residency within ...2 weeks of our interview! We were well prepared and had all of our documents ready as per the direction and help from Yvonnne. The instructions given directly by the government lack the detail needed to feel confident and Yvonne ensured we were confident with our interview by providing extra direction.