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Watch Out for "Embassy Parasites" In US Visa Applications

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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing the concept of "Embassy Parasites". 

There is another actually American Attorney who is on YouTube that I actually was watching a video of. I am not going to mention his name here. I will try to privately reach out hopefully in the next week if I can get around to it and maybe just privately mention to him that I watched his video. Hopefully maybe he will see this and maybe that will start a conversation. But I don't want to mention any names and I am not really bringing this up for any other reason than I thought it was interesting that he used a term "Embassy Parasites". To be clear, we are not talking about the personnel at an Embassy but he brought up something that I don't think that a lot of folks, even Immigration Attorneys, fully understand, if they are practicing in the US or folks that are in the US trying to bring a loved one over is that, yeah there is a certain energy around an Embassy in a sense or maybe that is the wrong word. The Embassy does, especially if it is a "high volume" post where a lot of visa cases especially of generally the same type generally process through that particular post, you will see these so called "visa agents" sometimes referred to as “notarios”. They congregate especially physically near the Embassy compound, the Chancery if you want to call it that. I remember 10 years ago, not so much now, but down on Wireless Road near the Embassy compound near the Consulate, you would actually see people out on the street. It was like a Carnival Park; they would literally try to pull you in to these Visa Agent offices. Here is the problem. Nobody is going to begrudge people for trying to earn a living but I do begrudge people trying to earn a living when first of all they are not legally able to do so pursuant to 8CFR 292.1, American Law stipulates who can represent folks before Immigration Tribunals. 

The other reason for this video is they can cause, these sort of amateur scam artists in some cases, out right scammers sometimes, fake lawyers, "Visa agents", notarios, call them whatever you will, they can cause tremendous amount of damage to cases. It is frankly something I don't make videos on as often as maybe I otherwise could because it is kind of commonplace. I don't see it as often as I once did, but once every quarter at least I see a case that comes off. Someone that "well you know we were near the Embassy and we got into this office and they were sort of answering our questions and in a lot of cases telling you what you want to hear and then we hired them to file things", and they either file junk, they file just a trash filing, they don't know what they are doing or they overtly lie or they tell you to lie. There are all kinds of problems when dealing with one of these "parasites". You really want to reach out, find someone reputable, a legal professional who can provide solid legal advice. Immigration law is a narrow but very deep body of law. Things that seem trivial can have tremendous ramifications on an overall case. So again having somebody that is really thoroughly qualified to be able to provide some insight to these cases, believe me that is definitely the thing that will behoove you as opposed to again some tout on the street that pulls you in and says, "Yeah, just fill out the forms and it's all easy peasy." That is not really the way it works especially now. Again, COVID restrictions being what they are and then on top of it, in the aftermath of the last Administration, everything is difficult and it was an already complex process before all of this.