RECENTLY I HAVE RECEIVED FEW EMAILS ON HOW TO FILE A GREEN CARD, AND MANY QUESTIONS ARE SIMILAR, IF IT CAN BE FILED WITHOUT LAWYER OR NO. YES, GREEN CARD CAN BE FILED WITHOUT LAWYER. IT TAKES VERY HARD WORK TO DO THAT, SO YOU DON'T GET ANY RFE. ALSO TO KNOW THE PROCESS FROM SCRATCH IS VERY IMPORTANT. IN OTHER THREAD I OUTLINED THE PROCESS OF FILING A GREEN CARD. YOU HAVE TO TAKE VERY EXTRA CAUTION WHEN DEALING WITH GREEN CARD. ANY LITTLE MISTAKE WOULD DELAY THE CASE AND YOU ARE LIKELY TO GET BEHIND ONCE THE CASE RECEIVED RFE. IT TAKES MONTHS TO CLEAR RFE, AND IN SOME INSTACES PEOPEL GET MULTIPLE RFE, PUSHING THE CASE VERY FAR. FEW LAWYERS CHARGE FOR THE CONSULTATION FEE, AND SOME PEOPLE FIND IT VERY GOOD WHEN THEY CONSULT WITH LAWYER. FOR SOME, ITS A WASTE OF TIME, AS MANY ANSWERS CAN BE EXTRACTED FROM FORUM AND SIMPLY ASKING QUESTIONS TO OTHERS. EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN CASE AND FILE ASSOCIATE WITH IT. EVEN THE PROCESS IS SAME, EVERY INDIVIDUAL CASE MAY BE DIFFERENT. SOME MAY HAVE PAST CONVICTIONS, SOME MAY HAVE QUESTIONS REGARDING THEIR UNAUTHORIZED WORK, SOME MIGHT ARE WORKING WITHOUT THE PROPER DOCUMENTS. FEW DAYS AGO, SOMEONE SENT ME EMAIL THAT HE WAS CAUGHT IN SHOP-LIFTING INCIDENT, AND HE WANTS TO KNOW IF HE CAN GET THE GREEN CARD. THE ONLY THING LAWYER CAN DO IS BY REPRESENTING YOU AND POSSIBLE ADVISE TO YOUR CASE. EVEN YOU HAVE ANY PAST INCIDENT, YOU SHOULD FOLLOW THE PROCESS NO MATTER WHAT. IN SOME CASES, USCIS HAS OVERLOOKED FEW SENARIO. I PERSONALLY KNOWN A GUY WHO LEFT THE COLLEGE AND STARTED WORKING, LATER HE FILES GREEN CARD, AND GUESS WHAT HE IS APPROVED. USCIS NEVER QUESTIONED HIS STATUS. BUT IT MAY NOT BE THE SAME FOR EVERYONE. CONSULTING LAWYER IS NOT BAD, BUT BEING KNOWLEDGEABLE IN THIS FILED WOULD GET YOUR CASE AN EXTRA BOOST. SO PLEASE DON'T SIMPLY FOLLOW YOUR LAWYER. AND IF POSSIBLE DO THE HOMEWORK. LABORPERM@GMAIL.COM