Melissa Oklan

I am extremely grateful for Mr. Kaushik Ranchod's office for their outstanding service in my J-1 waiver case. They helped me to obtain my J1 visa waiver under exceptional hardship. The team is reliable and knowledgeable, especially Mrs. Melissa Oklan. She has a great experience in J1 waiver which all...owed her to build a strong case. Further, she helped me through every step in this long process and made the whole process very simple for me. Mrs. Oklan was always attentive to details and responsive to my numerous emails and questions. Notably, she was always nice and very supportive in this hard long process that lasted over the two years. I cannot thank her enough for all her hard work. I strongly recommend Melissa Oklan and Ranchod’s office to anyone who needs help with J-1 waiver.

I had a complicated case of IR-1 Visa from India. I needed my waiver in order to get the LPR card. Melissa is very detail oriented and focused. She has the level of expertise to identify what's best for the case per the circumstances. I highly recommend Melissa for I 601 waiver and I am very grateful... to her for preparing a perfect draft and whole I 601 packet for me. I am United with my family back in US and I am very thankful to her.

My same sex spouse and I searched the internet and our local area for an immigration attorney to help us get a J1 Visa hardship waiver and then a marriage based Green Card. Melissa Oklan was excellent with guiding us on what to do to prepare for the J1 Visa waiver. While USCIS can be very slow to ...act, Melissa and the team at Ranchod Law reassured us the process was going as expected. We got the waiver 9 months after submitting it. Yesenia is the Green Card specialist and she helped us with that process which just resulted in my spouse earning the Green Card. We are so happy and thankful for the Ranchod Law guidance in these 2 processes. We found emailing to be the best way to communicate and either Melissa or Yesenia would always respond to us. They are busy, so we tried to limit our questions to specific issues we thought we needed to know. Don't bog them down with hypothetical situations and all will go well. We highly recommend Ranchod Law and Melissa Oklan and Yesenia Rosas for immigration legal guidance!

Melissa helped me obtain waiver of J1 (two-year home residency requirement) based on hardship to my US citizen spouse. Melissa closely guided my wife and I from the assembly of relevant documents, writing personal statements and the collection of additional data points to support the case. Melissa pr...ovides end-to-end coverage of all aspects of J1 waiver application. Melissa set clear expectations for likelihood of success and described the risks and weak aspects of the case. Melissa talked me through the response plan both in the outcome of favorable recommendation and denial.

I just can't thank Melissa Oklan and Mr. Ranchod enough for their help in securing a J-1 exceptional hardship waiver for me. The revenues of this success are immense and without their support, my family and I could have been separated for two years. I'm aware that a J-1 waiver based on exceptional... hardship to US citizen is extremely rare and difficult to handle. It requires extensive experience and diligence. Majority of immigration lawyers refuse to handle a J-1 waiver case because of the complexities involved. Ranchod Law Group​ has been very successful handling such waivers and I am very happy that I decided to work with them in preparing and arguing my case. Mr. Ranchod ​is a really experienced immigration lawyer and very patient as well. Melissa was very dedicated in preparing my case and handling every question I had very efficiently. She was very knowledgeable about what we should do to present the case in its best shape.​​ Melissa did a very terrific job filing my case in a very short time (2-3 weeks), she is a very professional attorney. I'm incredibly grateful to the Ranchod Law Group for all their help and quality service, and will definitely recommend them to anyone seeking a J-1 waiver.​ It has been a privilege and honor to work with Ranchod Law Group​.