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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing 'yeah, you can do it yourself'. The reason I am making this video, in the past couple months I have had like two people, there haven't been that many but like two people I have ended up engaged in some sort of conversation, they have seen me on YouTube and we end up talking about usually visas it seems like, and in this past couple of months I have seen two people bring it up this topic and then I hadn't heard this for a long time and it really made me almost kind of nostalgic the first time I heard this, but I remember being over in Phnom Penh working a case years ago. I want to say it's probably around 10 years ago and talking to another guy in the context of US Immigration and the back and forth was ‘well, this is what I do, I help a lot of people with visas, either to US or Thailand’. Then the response is sort of well "I don't know why anybody would hire somebody, you can just do it yourself!" Yeah you can. I've never said you can't. I always find that response rather interesting because I am not saying, it's usually not put out there in a standoffish manner but it's often put out there in a very sort of I don't know if I would call it brusque, but just kind of from the standpoint of as if I didn't know that that was the case. They sort of say it like it's very revelatory, like the veil is lifted, "oh my God people can do this themselves." I am well aware people can do US Immigration matters for themselves. People do their own taxes. I mean some opt to hire a CPA, they just feel they are paying for the convenience basically, they are l paying to not have to do it. Totally get it, Immigration is somewhat similar. 

Now there are things, Immigration is a very narrow body of law but it's very deep and there are things that you can get hung up on an Immigration that can be very problematic if you don't know what you're doing. But long story short I mean yeah sure you can do it yourself. Chris Rock once said you can drive a car with your feet, it doesn't make it a good idea. I don't think that is the case in every US Immigration case. I think there are cases that come along that are complex, very nuanced and difficult to deal with. Yeah you probably, there are certain kinds of cases, it's a relatively limited subset of cases where I would say "no an Attorney absolutely has to do that because quite frankly only they are going to understand and they have got to be a pretty experienced one because they need to be able to understand the code, they need to be able to understand how the Foreign Affairs Manual operates and in a limited subset of cases yeah it's like a Gordian Knot and oftentimes only a legal professional is going to be able to cut through it but the basic premise that you can do it yourself when it comes to Immigration, to Thailand or the US or whatever or taxes or legal work, yeah sometimes you can and in many cases you can so when I hear that, I am always kind of fascinated by again the way it is delivered as if it is kind of this revelatory thing. No, I am aware that things can be done DIY.