San Jose, California Immigration Attorneys are getting heavy workloads
My expertise is computers and networks, not law. But I had been called in to evaluate a network 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 glad they are doing so well; otherwise they might not have had this work for me.
It’s just a regular Wednesday morning at the office of an immigration lawyer in San Jose, CA. The telephone rings, and I overhear the legal assistant apologize that the next available appointment isn’t for nearly a month. She basically has to say the same thing again and again in different ways, probably because that isn’t the answer the concerned individual on the line wished to hear. Sadly, people don’t usually get around to looking for a lawyer until they are running out of options. They want assistance right away.
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 hired engineers from overseas. These immigrants, here on work visas, are now finding themselves unemployed and subject to deportation. I did find it a little disconcerting that one of these unemployed engineers could still afford to send both his children to a Bay Area private school. I guess that education may be another casualty of the business cycle.
Immigration attorneys are now needed to help these people remain in the United States.
That’s the business cycle for you. Whenever one industry is going bust, another may be booming. One just has to be in the right place at the right time. Go figure!
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