DocWalker
Regular Member
FWIW and IMO - If you want to know laws don't ask a cop, don't ask a lawyer, don't ask a friend, don't ask an Internet forum...research the law and find out for yourself.
When I was going through the immigration process I decided to skip on a lawyer and do my own research and paper filing. Guess what I found out in the process? Lawyers were giving misinformation and making mistakes all over the place. People who filed at the same timeframe as I did but paid thousands of dollars for a lawyer were getting paperwork refused and request for more information. Myself - I never got a single request for information, my process was streamlined and I had a green card in less than 6 months while those who trusted lawyers were still waiting.
Long story short - average lawyers don't know as much as we give them credit for and I would be willing to wager that they gave you a lazy and quite possibly liberal biased answer to your free question...
+1 as the lawyers are in it for the money...not the justice.