Irina S Batrakova

I do not recommend The Batrakova Law Office as they cost me quite a significant amount of money and time due to inexperienced legal advice on their part. I advise you to hire an alternative lawyer. The Batrakova Law Office made the following 6 errors during my K1 Fiancé Visa Process. 1) The Batrak...ova Law Office incorrectly advised us that we needed to upload all of our legal documents into an online portal. This was incorrect. As a result, I wasted 6+ hours looking through 2+ years of emails to find this “fictious portal” that did not even exist. The Batrakova Law Office made an error and cost me my valuable time. 2) The Batrakova Law Office failed to inform my fiancé and I that we needed to have an up to date Covid vaccine as part of the K1 Fiancé Visa process. There are no covid vaccines where we live. As a result, we had to travel 8 hours by bus to the nearest city to try to find a Covid vaccine. Again, inadequate, and inexperienced guidance by The Batrakova Law Office cost us our time and sanity. 3) The Batrakova Law Office failed to inform us that we would be drug tested as part of the K1 Fiancé visa process. Again, failing to provide us with adequate guidance through this process. 4) The Batrakova Law Office incorrectly advised me on the naturalization timeline for the United States. I had to research this topic on my own and then had to correct the lawyer on her own poor advice and mistake. 5) The Batrakova Law Office incorrectly told us that it was not possible to schedule the K1 Fiancé interview in an alternative location. We had originally scheduled the interview in Argentina and missed the opportunity to relocate the interview to our new home in Mexico. The poor legal advice provided by the The Batrakova Law Office resulted in several thousand dollars in additional travel costs to Argentina. The U.S Embassy in Argentina was reportedly shocked that we had an appointment there. 6) The worst part of all of this is that the The Batrakova Law Office failed to acknowledge or admit their past mistakes. And you’ll most likely notice a “standardized reply” to this complaint in which again she fails to acknowledge errors. It’s a poorly run business and a poorly run law office.

I cannot say enough of great things about Irina and her team office work. We had one of the most hardest immigration cases and Irina did a great job and we got approval of the waiver. She answers emails and phone calls professional and immediately. We just so happy that we had Irina , as our immigr...ation lawyer, because she done amazing job. Thank you so much !!!! We would without a doubt recommend Irina Batrakova law office for everyone!!!

Irina has been our lawyer for two processes, the k-1 visa and the adjustment of status. We were able to get everything done and it didn't matter if I was living in Mexico at that time. We highly appreciate working with her; the way we describe her is: efficient, organized and responsible. She has fai...r pricing and she'll make sure your process gets done. If you hire her, it's a great investment, besides you will have a perfect understanding of what you need to do because she explains it in a very detailed way, also she is very personal with her clients and her customer service is amazing.

When my fiance and I decided to take the plunge and get married, we had no idea where to start with immigration matters. Let alone find an attorney that would truly understand us and what we were going through emotionally. The arduous task and worries of finding that attorney were quickly dismissed... once we spoke with Irina Batrakova. We called Irina, and from minute one on the phone we knew we had found the right attorney to help us. She took so much time with us on the phone, answering all our questions, and even outlined what laid ahead for us. On our first face to face meeting, Irina put us at ease immediately with her friendly and professional demeanor. She took us through step by step what would happen, gave us a timeline to work with, gave us specifics on what paperwork to gather, and prepared us for all potential outcomes of our immigration case. Through this past year, Irina has responded to emails and calls very quickly, sometimes even on weekends and holidays! And I'm huge on prompt communication, on that matter Irina definitely gets and A++. Any questions we had, she answered us in a very straight forward manner, without using a lot of "lawyer speak", making it easy for my husband and I to understand. When we ran into a little snag with the immigration process, Irina handled the problem quickly and calmly. Which helped to keep me calm. What we appreciated most was that Irina knows what it's like on both sides of that desk. She not only fully understands the immigration process from an attoney's point of view, she knows what you are going through emotionally, she gets it. This has been a very stressful year changing my status. The anxiety and worry of whether I would be able to stay here with my husband was overwhelming to me at times. I just don't know how we would have made it through without Irina. She made what looked like a daunting task to my husband and I, a cakewalk. I just really can't say enough great things about her! If you want an attorney who knows the immigration process inside and out, hire Irina Batrakova.

My wife and I were getting nowhere fast with an immigration lawyer based out of Seattle. We kept giving him more and more money with nothing to show for it. We decided to drop him and started looking here in the Portland area. We went to two consultations in downtown Portland, before my wife made an ...appointment with Irina. We were impressed with the interview and hired Irina on the spot. Best move we could have made! Right from the beginning Irina told us what it would cost us and what was expected of us to get the process done. Irina walked us through the process step by step, she kept us updated all the way. We made appointments with her on a regular basis and were never made to feel like we were imposing, and it was all included in her original fee. In the end my wife got her wavier approved, her visa, her green card, and her social. We couldn't be happier! I can't stress enough how pleased we were to have made the decision to go with Irina. If you don't call her you are making a huge mistake. Irina got the job done.