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 would like to thank the Attorney Melissa Olklan and the Ranchod Law Group very much for the tremendous amount of work and very good care Melissa and her team have put into our J1 hardship waiver application (two-year home residency requirement), based on hardship to our US citizen son. Our case was... so complicated. We talked to 5 different immigration law firms, and None of them gave us a satisfactory explanation of the process. I searched and found the Ranchod Law Group online. We set up the phone conference with the attorneys Kaushik Ranchod and Melissa Olklan. After the conference, in the first email, Melissa outlined a very detailed plan and explained all the steps to be completed. She gave very professional advice and worked with us for several months on preparation of J1 hardship waiver application. She prepared our case very meticulously and comprehensively. She ensured that all the prerequisites were complete. She provided all the guidance and worked with us throughout the complete process. Ten months after filing, our cases were approved right away. In short, We feel very fortunate to have such a competent and diligent attorney on our side, and I would strongly recommend Melissa for all cases aiming to obtain waiver of J1 (two-year home residency requirement). Kind regards, David N.

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!

I'm thankful for Melissa Oklan and Kaushik for their outstanding service in my J-1 exceptional hardship waiver. Their professional approach is superb and they helped me through every step in this long process. They have built a strong case, filed it in a timely manner, and followed up with me regular...ly. Actually, Melissa Oklan went further step and had direct communications with my employer regarding my J-1 waiver, which was very helpful to keep my job. I strongly recommend Melissa Oklan and Kaushik Ranchod for J-1 waiver giving their extensive experience