Lawrence Richard Holmes

I'm an American and fell in love with a beautiful, fascinating Brazilian Amazon Indian woman, Hiracy. Due to our ages she is 28 and I am 69 years we never dreamed we could ever really be married and she could really be here as my wife beside me 24 hours a day. She taught me Portugues and I taught her... some English. We talked by Skype day and night and her family and I all built a great relationship. At one point we decided we both wanted to get married and of course her come to America with me. I searched online and found Attorney Holmes, never dreaming he would be so friendly and his staff would be so kind and helpful to us. They began to help us and we decided it would be all the way with them to represent us. We began the process sometime last year 2014 in about August - every single step of the way went just as they said it would. Every time they received a notice or we did we were instantly in contact. Since my wife now is from the capital of the Amazon, Manaus, there is no embassy there or any office to help us get her US Visa. So we had to meet in Rio De Janeiro and take all our photo albums and documents, and financial records and her police clearances, etc. to the Rio office. It was a three week process. First the medical testing had to be done - it was then sent to the Embassy. Then we went for the interview and were handled at a window just standing there before a very friendly agent who cleared us and our documents before we were called to stand before another window in a private room in front of the Consul of America in Brazil. He asked about five simple questions then he said she was approved to travel to the USA! We had been very nervous about the interview but it was approved and then we had to wait another week for her passport to arrive at the hotel in Rio before our plane was scheduled to leave on March 18th. I decided to push it and buy our tickets to USA ahead of time and as luck had it we received it the day before our plane left. We were so relieved to get out of Brazil and her for the first time to the USA - and we had heard horror stories about the Immigration agents in Miami where we entered. How they would surely separate us and scare her to death since her English was practically zero. However Mr Holmes and Danielle and the staff assured us we would pass fine. When we got to Miami we were surprised again... the agent took us straight to a room and we waited till someone came in at 5am or so and that agent asked us a few questions and if we were truly going to get married because we loved each other and we assured him we would be married within a week of arriving to Tucson, Az where we live. Our last hurdle which we gladly hired Mr. Holmes and Danielle who did everything again for us was our final interview with the agency here in Tucson. We were perfectly prepared by Danielle and the interview went much easier than we thought. They just notified us today that my wife's Green Card has been approved and on the way. Her social security card is also on the way and now we are free to travel the world and she can get a job if she wants and learn English and Get a driver's license... and such. Although it has some conditions, we are ecstatic now - but a year ago we had many obstacles to jump. It has been a long and arduous mission, but we have done it! Mission completed! Their fee was worth its weight in gold. They walked us through the entire process. I didn't have to worry if I had it right or wrong - and when we were in an interview - we were so well prepared they hardly looked at our documents. Many many blessings to the Angels and Geniuses at Lawrence Holmes, Attorneys!

I first hired Larry Holmes to guide me through getting my wife and daughter a visa to join me in the USA two years ago. I made the decision to hire Larry after over a year of frustration in personally trying to get these Visa's. My challenges included travelling half way around the world to meet ...with my own US Embassy and being treated rather poorly by our own embassy personnel. My wife had to go to the Embassy three times and was humiliated each time by the same personnel. I am an aerospace engineer, and I am used to doing a lot of research to find facts. When I searched for an immigration attorney I discovered that all the websites made the same promises with the exception of Larry Holmes. I called several of these Law Firms before Larry and they all made the same claims. When I got around to speaking with Larry personally, I knew right away that Larry was the ONLY attorney that understood the new laws and practices for immigration. Larry's staff was excellent in helping my wife getting her spouse visa two years ago. The day they arrived in the USA, 100% of all their paperwork was properly completed and Green Cards were issued so fast I couldn't believe it. After two years in the USA, I hired Larry Holmes to extend my family's green cards. We were very concerned to get all of the Visa extension completed in a timely manner because the Green cards were about to expire right as we were returning from our first trip overseas to visit family. Larry's assistant Yvonne handled everything perfectly according to the timing of our plans. Now less than a month after returning from overseas, and these Visa's have been extended with no problems at all. Great thanks to Yvonne for taking good care of us. I definitely plan to hire Larry again next year when the time comes for my wife and daughter to gain citizenship. This has been money well spent for us after first seeing how poorly the US Government Immigration System treats applicants both in the USA and overseas at the Embassy. I will tell you I felt like I was in a Martin Scorsese movie when I tried to go it alone. With Larry on my side it was a completely different story. When you hire a good attorney like Larry Holmes, the government knows you are serious about your application. Larry is a Vietnam Veteran who went on to a career as an attorney. Thank you for your service back then, and thank you for coming home and making a difference representing those of us that need your help.

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!