If you're interested in hearing about the top three
immigration mistakes that you must must, must avoid in 2021, watch this video.
[inaudible] Thanks so much
for watching this video. I'm Latoya McBean Pompey. I'm an immigration lawyer in New York
and each week I give you the latest immigration news and my winning tips
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Now let's talk about the three mistakes that you cannot make in 2021. If you made any of these
mistakes in 2020, I know that you're going to be like, Ugh, I feel you are twice. I feel you. I
understand because I made these mistakes in 2020, or even in 2019. And it is costing me so much now.
Oh my God, is it costly? And so guys I meet with so many of you each month during consultations,
and I hear your stories, and I know that many of you are out there doing immigration
on your own, or you got the wrong help. And so mistakes happen during your process.
And you're feeling a great deal of anxiety right now. And in some cases, pain, because of what's
happening with your immigration process that could have maybe have been avoided, right? If the
mistakes were not made. So I do want to share my top three things or mistakes that you must avoid
in 2021. If you're out there and you have not filed your paperwork yet, but you're on the brink
of filing. This video is really for you and guys share it with other people because you never know.
As I always say, who will need this information and also be sure to stick around all the way until
the very end, because in the end, that's when I'm going to share with you my number one mistake. Now
let's get into it. Mistakes can be very, very, very costly, very costly because when you make
a mistake during the immigration process, guys, as you know, it's costly to fix because when the real
mistakes happen, like the three I'm going to talk about in this video, you most likely have to go to
either your lawyer or a new lawyer or some lawyer and tell them, Hey, here's what happened.
And here's the situation now. And I really need you to fix this. And in many cases, the lawyer
can fix the problem, right? But in some cases, it's already too late. So there's the legal fees
that you now have to pay to fix these mistakes. Secondly, guys, mistakes can lead to the delay
in your case. And we already know that case processing times are already so slow and who needs
further delays with the case, right? Thirdly, we know that mistakes can keep you separated from
your family longer, or if you're here together in America, the delay with your case because of the
mistake can lead to more fear and anxiety about what's going to happen. Next is ice going to come
knocking on my door? Am I going to get a denial? Right? It leads to all of those issues. And then
lastly guys, and this is the worst one. Mistakes can lead to a denial of your case.
And again, that's definitely not what you want. Although in some cases, even if you are denied,
in some cases, it can be remedied. It can be cured. And I've talked about that in other videos.
Now let's talk about the first mistake that you really want to avoid in 2021,
if you're ready, type in ready? Ready? Ready? Ready? Ready. So here it goes. The first mistake
guys, is this not reading the instructions, not reading the instructions. Did you guys know that
the government has instructions on its website about how to prepare the forms, how to prepare
the immigration forms every form. If you go to usc.gov guys and you type it, the form number,
you will see the form there, the PDF version of the form, but you will also see instructions too,
the forms. And so read the instructions because by not reading the instructions,
it can ultimately lead to a major mistake. For example, you may miss a very important
required piece of evidence that the instructions clearly tell you
to include such as passport photos or birth certificates or marriage certificate, or
affidavit's sworn statements from others, right? The instructions tell you what evidence you're
to include with your filing. It also tells you the filing fees, where to file. It gives so much
information to you and that's on the U S CIS part. If you're going through the state
department in VC or national visa center process on the state department's website, guys, they
also provide instructions on how to go through those steps, right of the count's Yulia process.
So you want to be sure to read instructions very carefully. So as to avoid costly mistakes.
Now, the second big mistake that you want to avoid in 2021 guys is using a family friend
or an accountant or a paralegal or some random person to prepare your immigration case.
Guys, I cannot tell you the number of times when I do meet with people and they say things to me
like, Oh, I, I worked with this person on my case and I don't even know what he or she put
on the paperwork. I don't even have copies of it. I cannot even get a hold of that person anymore.
I can't find that individual anymore. And then when I drill down deeper to see, to find out
who did you actually meet with? That's when I learned that, Oh, it was, you know, some men
that my mother told me about, or that she used back in the day or my uncle's friend
or this paralegal, I'm not even sure she's if she's a lawyer, I think she's a paralegal.
And so those are the individuals that will get you in trouble because they're practicing
immigration law without authorization, by the way, they're practicing immigration law.
And they're in the dark because they don't even know the new rules rules have changed.
So drastically. Since Trump came into office, there's so much to know so much to learn
many immigration lawyers find it difficult to keep up with all of the changes, much less,
that random person who has been doing immigration filings in the neighborhood since the 1980s.
And he's really not up to speed on what's going on. So I then see people come to me who gotten
a denial or gotten into very big trouble with the government, right? Because their case just wasn't
prepared properly. So guys work with a credible licensed attorney on your immigration case,
work with us, give our office a call so that we can help you sort things out and get back on the
right track. And I'm going to put our office phone number here. It's (718) 301-9732.
Now let's get into the third mistake guys that you must must, must avoid in 2021. And that
mistake guys, it's number one from my perspective guys, and that is making the mistake of lion or
misrepresented the facts. Yes, guys, I'm going to nail some of you here. I'm going to, well, you,
because you do this right. You lie, you know, the fancy word for this is misrepresentation, but in,
in it really, it's just a very short word call, lie in Lyon, right? And so here's how this plays
out. And here's why this is so dangerous because when you commit misrepresentation guys and the
government finds out about it will complicate your case. And obviously it will also lead to a denial,
right? And so I've had people say to me that, well, Latoya, you know, we're not living together
anymore. I'm not together with my spouse. I don't even, you know, know where she stays at
night, but we're not, not together anymore. And I have my green card interview coming up. And so
she has agreed to go with me to the interview. And when we get there, we're going to make it seem as
if we're still together as if we're still living in the marital home and all is well with us. And
guys, I tell you, I see so many couples who this strategy, you know, just doesn't work. It doesn't
work because the government has gotten a whole lot better at determining whether you're in marital,
unity or together or not. And so if you walk into an immigration interview with the plan to lie
and they nail you or they get you confused what their questions, and, you know, you begin to
say things that you can't even keep track of. And you walk away from that meat and feeling like,
Whoa, what just happened here? And you then feel a lot of fear and anxiety for months waiting on the
decision letter only to get a letter that says during the interview, you said all these things
yet. Here's what we found to be true. And you know, this is inconsistent and you've got to
now explain yourself, or we've denied your case, right? And that's not really what you want to see
happen. Or the other thing that people do is, you know, they're filling out these paperwork and they
lie on the paperwork, right? Maybe they are hiding the fact that they are married to someone else,
but never divorced. Right? So there's so many things that people do. That's just not right
during the immigration process. And it ultimately, for many people, it does catch up with them.
So my number one tip guys for you to avoid doing in 2021 is misrepresented to immigration because
it is against the law. It's a violation and it can lead to a denial. So again, friends,
my top three mistakes to avoid in 2021 are not reading the instructions carefully. Secondly,
using a family friend accountant or some random person paralegal to file your immigration case,
and then thirdly, Lyon or misrepresenting the facts to immigration. I hope you found this video,
helpful comment below, share it with other people. As I said, in my last video, share it on Facebook,
share it on Twitter, share it via email, share it on. Just go ahead and push this out to folks
because they need to know what not to do in 2021 so that they could have a smoother immigration
process. Guys. I so appreciate you. Thank you so much for watching this video and I will see you
in the next one. Bye. Bye [inaudible].