Suspended lawyer ruined our case
immigration attorney Oklahoma Aug 26, 2026
Location: Oklahoma City n 2017 my father applied for. U-visa the process kept going etc in 2022 he was granted bonafied determination to he and my mother were issued work permits etc. In 2026 we contacted our previous attorney to reapply for work permits because they were almost expired. We called to check up on them with uscis because it had taken a bit (march) and uscis told us that they did a RFE(request for evidence) march (15th) we contacted the lawyers she said she’ll look into it. We filed the RFE on June 5th on the 15th we were notified our application had been denied. The bad part We contacted another attorney to see what happened she informed us that the lawyer we used had her licensed suspended in 2024 and never notified us, she changed address and the notices uscis sent were sent back to them and the case was considered abandoned. So, that’s why they denied the case. We spent ~6K on the RFE/Work permit renewals. We have a lozada appeal I believe that we can use to reopen the case but we have no notice papers for any of the cases because they could never be delivered to the lawyer. I’m trying to hire a new attorney but the one we had before isn’t sending over any of the files she sent for the RFE or work permit etc she only sent the lawyer files she had from 2017. Questions 1.) what can we do to force her to send the documents? I’ve tried for a month 2.) how can we recover the money 3.) can we do anything against this lawyer We’ve been waiting for almost 10? Years, for the case to be ruined over something like this is heart breaking.
