A few questions, then the door that fits.
Answer a few questions and this page names your next step, or gives you an honest no when another lawyer is the right call. It takes about a minute, the questions send nothing, and nothing is booked until you pick a time. Already know yours? The two doors are below.
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Where the questions landed
The intake is your next step.
What you described is work the firm does. The next step is the short intake with the paralegal team, and it is free.
They take the facts down properly so you never have to tell the story twice, explain how the firm works and what things cost, and set up a consultation when one is worth your money. They do not give legal advice, do not tell you whether you qualify, and do not recommend a visa category. That work belongs to the attorney and it happens in the consultation.
You pick a time on the intake calendar. Nothing is charged and nothing is committed by booking it.
After you book
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The time is held. A confirmation and a calendar invite come to you, and a client portal opens for you.
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Nothing is required before the intake. If you have a resume, the portal has a place for it.
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A paralegal runs the intake and takes your situation down once.
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If a paid consultation with the attorney is worth it, we schedule it. If it is not yet, we say so.
A Case Blueprint is probably the better first spend.
What you described is work the firm does, and the useful thing right now is not a short conversation. It is a written read of what you actually have, what each path would need, and what would have to be true for it to work.
That is what the Case Blueprint is. It is paid, and it is the honest answer when the real question is which door to walk through rather than how to walk through one.
If you would rather start with a conversation, the free intake is still open to you, and the team will say plainly if the Blueprint is not worth buying yet.
$500, credited once toward your attorney fee if you retain the firm for the full case.
That is work the firm takes, and it usually starts with the employer.
A new H-1B through the annual cap lottery is work the firm takes. The realistic shape of it comes first: the sponsoring employer files the registration, the employer decides whether to register anyone at all, and selection runs as a draw in which the wage level of the offered position sets how many entries a registration receives.
If an employer is ready to sponsor you, the next step is the free intake. The team takes your facts down once, explains how the registration season works and what things cost, and sets up a consultation with the attorney when one is worth your money.
If there is no employer yet, the honest answer is that the lottery is not where this starts. The intake is still open to you, and the team will say plainly what would have to exist first. Two paths next to this one are also worth reading about: an H-1B with a cap-exempt employer, which has no lottery at all, and moving or extending an H-1B you already hold.
You pick a time on the intake calendar. Nothing is charged and nothing is committed by booking it.
After you book
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The time is held. A confirmation and a calendar invite come to you, and a client portal opens for you.
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Nothing is required before the intake. If you have a resume, the portal has a place for it.
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A paralegal runs the intake and takes your situation down once.
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If a paid consultation with the attorney is worth it, we schedule it. If it is not yet, we say so.
Find a removal defense lawyer first.
If you are in removal or deportation proceedings, that is the case that matters and it is not work the firm does. Joe Kwon Law is a business immigration practice and does not appear in immigration court.
What you need is a lawyer who does removal defense, and you need one ahead of any date already set in your case. The American Immigration Lawyers Association runs a public directory of member lawyers you can search by location and by what they practice, which is a reasonable place to start. Many cities also have nonprofit legal aid offices that do this work at no cost.
Nothing on this page is legal advice and nobody at the firm has looked at your situation. If a business immigration question is still live once the proceedings are behind you, come back then. Nobody at the firm will follow up, because nothing you answered was sent.
This is a public directory run by a bar association. It is not a referral, and the firm has no arrangement with anyone listed in it.
Something else is usually still work the firm does.
The firm is a business immigration practice, and there are exactly two kinds of work it does not take: removal and deportation defense, and asylum. Everything else in immigration is worth asking about, even if none of the earlier answers named it.
If what you need is removal defense or asylum, that is the case that matters, and the right move is a lawyer who does that work. The American Immigration Lawyers Association runs a public directory of member lawyers you can search by location and by what they practice, and many cities have nonprofit legal aid offices that do this work at no cost.
For anything else, the free intake is the door. Say what you are trying to do in your own words. The team takes it down once, and if it turns out the firm is not the right fit for your specific matter, they will say so plainly instead of selling you a consultation.
You pick a time on the intake calendar. Nothing is charged and nothing is committed by booking it.
After you book
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The time is held. A confirmation and a calendar invite come to you, and a client portal opens for you.
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Nothing is required before the intake. If you have a resume, the portal has a place for it.
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A paralegal runs the intake and takes your situation down once.
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If a paid consultation with the attorney is worth it, we schedule it. If it is not yet, we say so.
This is a public directory run by a bar association. It is not a referral, and the firm has no arrangement with anyone listed in it.
Booking does not create an attorney-client relationship.
The two doors, side by side
Whichever one the questions point at, this is what each door is, who you sit with, what it costs, and what happens before, during and after.
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Intake
My paralegal team, not me · 15 minutes
Da Young Yu,Yasmin Majzoub
Free
Before
Nothing is required. No documents, no resume, no plan. If you had those figured out, you would not need the intake.
During
They ask what is going on: your status now, the dates that matter, your employer if there is one, and what you have already tried. They write it down properly, so you never have to tell the story twice.
After
They tell you what a consultation with me would cover and whether it is worth booking yet. When the answer is not yet, they say not yet.
What the intake is not
This step is intake and scheduling. My paralegals do not give legal advice, do not tell you whether you qualify for anything, and do not recommend a visa category. That part is mine, and it happens in the attorney consultation.
You pick a time on the intake calendar. Nothing is charged and nothing is committed by booking it.
Booking does not create an attorney-client relationship.
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Attorney consultation
Joe Kwon, the attorney who would handle the case · 60 minutes
$150
If you go on to retain the firm for the matter the consultation covered, the fee is credited toward your fee for that case. The credit does not expire.
Before
Say what you want to ask about when you book, and send whatever record you have to the client portal that opens the moment you book. Start with your resume or CV. Naming the question is what lets me read your record beforehand, so the session starts at your answer rather than at the beginning.
During
You tell me what you have and what you are trying to do. I tell you what your record shows today, which categories it could support, which ones I would rule out and why, and what I would do next and in what order.
After
You leave with the next step named and its cost quoted. If that step is a Case Blueprint, I say so and why. If the honest next step is not me at all, I say that too.
What you are paying for
The legal read, not a sales call. Some of these end with me saying I would not take the case, or would not file it yet. That is a result of the session rather than a failure of it, and you leave knowing what would have to change.
Booking asks you to write down what you want to ask about, and that question is required. It is what lets me read your record before we sit down, which is the part you are paying for.
Booking does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Consultation rescheduling, cancellation and refunds
Three rungs, in cost order. The first two are the doors above. The third is a written evaluation that follows a conversation rather than replacing one.
Questions people ask
What if the questions tell me this is not the right firm?
Then that is the answer, and you have saved yourself the intake. The page names what the firm does not do, rather than leaving you to guess, and points at a bar association directory you can search for someone who does that work. Nobody here will chase you about it afterward.
Is the free intake a consultation with you?
No. The free intake is with my paralegal team. They take the facts down, explain how the firm works and what things cost, and put you on the calendar when a consultation makes sense. The legal read is mine and it happens in the paid session. The firm does not advertise a free consultation with the attorney. If I ever offer one, it is my own decision in a particular case, not something you can book and not what most people get.
Why is the longer one paid?
Because it is the legal work rather than a pitch for the legal work. You are buying my read on your record: the categories it could support, the ones I would rule out, and the order I would do things in. Charging for it is also what keeps it honest. The session is paid work in its own right, so I have no reason to talk you into a case I do not believe in.
Does the consultation fee come off the case fee if I hire you?
Yes. If you go on to retain the firm for the matter the consultation covered, the fee is credited toward your fee for that case, and the credit does not expire. There is no deadline to decide by, because immigration timelines are often not yours to control and a clock would punish you for a delay you did not cause. The Case Blueprint credit is a separate thing with its own terms, and those are written on the Case Blueprint page.
Do I have to know what I want to ask before I book?
Yes, and that is the part that makes the session worth its fee. Booking asks you what you want to ask about, and I read that and whatever record you sent before we sit down. A booking that says "immigration options" buys you a session that starts with me learning your facts. A booking that names the question buys you a session that starts at the answer. If you cannot name a question yet, that is exactly what the free intake is for, and my team will tell you when it is worth booking me.
Other firms advertise a refund if the case is denied. Why don't you?
Because the thing you would get back is the wrong thing. In immigration the asset you are spending is time. A filing season. A status that runs out. The year a category was still open to you. If a case I should not have taken is denied, a refund returns the money and none of the years.
So I would rather give you the straight read before you pay me anything, including when the straight read is that I would not file this yet, or would not file it at all. No lawyer can guarantee an approval, because officers decide these and much of it is discretionary. A refund badge does not change that. It just moves the risk you can see onto the one you cannot.
What should I have ready?
For the consultation, whatever describes your record: a resume or CV, anything published about your work, and the dates. Entries into the United States, status changes, any prior filing and what came of it. It all goes in your client portal, which opens as soon as you book, and the resume is the one worth sending first.
Can we do this in Korean?
Yes. Both the intake and the consultation run in Korean or in English. My paralegal team includes a Korean speaker and I grew up speaking it. Tell us which you prefer when we first speak, and no one will hand you an interpreter you did not ask for.
What if I need to reschedule or cancel?
Use the links in your confirmation email. Rescheduling is free with at least 24 hours of notice, as many times as you need. The consultation fee is earned when you book, because the hour is held for you and the preparation begins then, so a cancellation is not refunded. Inside 24 hours, write to the team anyway and we will still try to move the session once. If you go on to hire the firm for the same matter, the consultation fee is credited toward your fee.
You do not have to use the questions.
If you would rather just write to someone, email the firm at staff@joekwonlaw.com and say what you are trying to do.
Immigration benefits are decided by government officers who apply the law to the record in front of them, and many of them are discretionary. No attorney can promise you an approval, and anyone who does is telling you what you want to hear. What good lawyering controls is whether your case is complete, specific, and internally consistent, so that approving it is the officer's easiest path.
Viewing this website, using the chat, taking the eligibility questionnaire, or contacting us does not create an attorney-client relationship. That relationship begins only when you and the firm sign a written engagement agreement and the first payment is made or the firm approves a payment arrangement.