How to get great legal or professional advice

There is a method to getting great advice from any expert.  The clearer you are on your details and plans, the more you will get out of a meeting.

Prepare your information in writing

Why?  Instead of using the first 25 minutes of a consultation getting your information, an attorney or other consultant can read it in five minutes.  Any ambiguity is quickly cleared up and more time is left for brainstorming alternatives and possibilities.

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In the EasyWayUSA Business Section the importance of a business plan is discussed when seeking advice from American business consultants.  In a business plan you explain all your views, thoughts, strategies and ideas based on your foreign education and experience.  A USA business consultant or expert gets the complete picture as you see it when reading your business plan.  This allows for constructive advice and criticism on every part of your plan.

If you are merely discussing your plan with an expert, it takes longer to give a broad overview of your ideas.  The smaller, yet critical, issues are easily overlooked.  You will get less out of the meeting.

It is not being suggested that you have a full business plan of your business idea when you first meet with an immigration attorney.  What is being suggested is that when you meet an immigration attorney, you have a comprehensive family biography listing education, skills, talents, experience, dates of birth, and nationalities of all family members.

 Do not assume that if the husband in the family is earning a large salary as a professional in a foreign country, that the path of entry into the United States is through the husband.  The wife may have a low-paying occupation which is in great demand or which is exempt from the labor certification process.  Provide everyone’s information.

Do not assume anything, rather be prepared!