Miriam Bustamante Riedmiller

On behalf of my grandmother who is old and not computer savvy, I am writing this review highly commending the work that Atty. Reidmiller has done for my grandmother. Atty. Riedmiller did an excellent job helping my grandmother from the very beginning of the process from having a non-immigrant visa to... having a green card until she finally got her US Citizenship. She went above and beyond the call of duty and persevered well enough to help my grandmother to gain her citizenship who did not feel confident about passing. She gave my grandmother the confidence by helping her prepare for the interview and the exam patiently and kindly. In the end, she was able to ace her citizenship exam and pass her interview with flying colours. Her attentiveness, understanding and respectfulness is the key to my grandmother’s success. We are very grateful for the fact that Atty. Riedmiller is very professional and very personal. Because of that, our friends and relatives had hired Atty. Riedmiller and I would recommend that you would do the same.

I highly recommend Ms. Riedmiller as an immigration lawyer. She has been our family lawyer for over 10 years— for me, my sister, mother, father, grandmother, uncle, aunt and two cousins. She filed a relative petition for our family which she won and was approved. She is truly an exceptional lawyer be...cause of her strong analytical and logical thinking ability. In addition, she worked in a very timely and professional manner, manifesting her legal skills as well as people skills. She proved to be organized, reliable and most of all, honest.

I do NOT recommend retaining Miriam Riedmiller at all. She says she is compassionate but she is nothing more than a Lawyer who boxes their clients into a corner and drags out the work and keeps coming back with more and more charges. She refuses to issue invoices instead always saying "...look at the... big picture." Her accounting should be done as she goes but instead by not issuing weekly invoices she can get away with hidden charges calling it research. She claims to have an office in DC but instead forces clients to go to her home in Alexandria where she makes the client walk with her while she walks her dog and then bills for that time too. She gets furious at the slightest question about billing to date, paper filing status, and what the overall strategy is. In each case she goes on a tangent and NEVER answers the question but instead belittles the client as if she were the school master. Her fees are off the charts compared to other Attorneys who do the same work.

Ms. Riedmiller has been handling my case for the past two years, and though it's been a complicated case, I have never been let down by her. She is always on the ball, able to answer all my questions, and makes sure that I always get my documents. She is always ready and willing to go the extra mil...e, for which I am grateful. Ms. Riedmiller is professionalism personified, and I can think of no one more dedicated.

Ms. Riedmiller was a very hard working individual that was very supportive and kept me informed of every step of the process while handling my immigration request. She was a very organized person and was always available to answer any of the tough questions on the immigration process. A professiona...l through and through.