San Jose Immigration Lawyers are getting heavy workloads
General January 7th, 2010
My expertise is computers and networks, not law. But I had been asked to work on a system at a local immigration lawyer’s office, and what I found was a busy office right in the middle of a recession of historic proportion. I’m grateful their business is booming; otherwise they might not have needed my help.
It’s just a regular Tuesday morning at the office of an immigration lawyer in San Jose, CA. The phone rings, and I hear the legal assistant apologize that the next available appointment isn’t for nearly a month. She often has to say the same thing over and over in different ways, likely because that isn’t the answer the concerned person on the line wanted to hear. Sadly, people don’t usually get around to calling an attorney until they are running out of options. They want help immediately.
San Jose, California is at the heart of the “immigration law” market, not only because it is near the agricultural areas of Salinas and Gilroy, but because it is the “capital” of Silicon Valley. During Silicon Valley’s good years, high tech firms brought in engineers from India. These immigrants, here on work visas, are now finding themselves out of work and subject to deportation. I did find it a bit disconcerting that one of these out of work immigrants could still afford to send both his children to a Bay Area private school. I guess they aren’t in that bad of shape.
Immigration lawyers are now being sought to help these immigrants remain in the US.
That’s the business cycle for you. Whenever one industry is doing poorly, another may be booming. One just has to be in the right line of work at the right time. Go figure!
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