Smal Immigration Law office operates remotely as an online-based immigration law office. Since 2004, for 19 years, attorney Luba Smal has been exclusively practicing the U.S. immigration law. Because the U.S. immigration law is federal law, we can represent clients from all states and worldwide. Luba is empathetic, ethical, courteous and highly efficient. Luba speaks fluently Russian and English.
When we accept a new client, the goal is to help you to succeed, and your cooperation and transparency are required. We appreciate when our clients can effectively and timely communicate with us via email, phone and have an access to a scanner or a scanner app. Before we accept a new client, we complete intake and all necessary checks over email and phone, and review the documents that you email us.
Because we never outsource legal services, only an attorney will advise you, answer your questions, complete your applications, petitions and immigration forms, advise you about evidence, inform you about status of your pending case, and follow up until your case is complete.
Please email us or use our scheduling app, if you want to get in touch, looking to hire an immigration attorney, want to ask questions or schedule a consultation. We will email you a few questions or our confidential immigration questionnaire and schedule the best time to talk over the phone or video conference call.
SERVICES: PRACTICE AREAS
- N-400, Application for Naturalization or U.S. Citizenship: we can help you to become a US citizen. Please schedule a meeting here.
- N-600, Application for Certificate of Citizenship: we can help your children to obtain a certificate of citizenship in their own name.
- I-601 and I-601A, Waiver of Inadmissibility or Extreme Hardship Waiver, and Provisional Waiver: we can guide you through this very difficult immigration process, and help you to prepare the complete waiver application and a packet of supporting documents for the USCIS or/and the U.S. embassy or consulate. Information about provisional waiver is here,
- I-129F, Fiancée Visa Petition, and K-1 and K-2 Fiancee Visas: we can assist you with bringing your foreign national fiancée to the United States. We offer help throughout the whole fiancee visa process: a Fiancée petition, USCIS Form I-129F, and K-1 fiancee visa application. We can help you to bring your foreign fiancée's minor children to USA on K-2 dependent fiancée visas. We offer bi-lingual assistance in Russian and English, and can directly communicate with your foreign fiancée. Please schedule a meeting with attorney through our online scheduler.
- I-130, Family reunification or Family-based immigration: green cards, immigrant visas, and CR-1 visa for a spouse if married less than two years: we can help you to bring your close family members to live with you in USA (wife, husband, mother, father, children, sisters, brothers). Please schedule a meeting with attorney through our online calendar.
- DS-260 and DS-160, Consular Processing: helping you to obtain an Immigrant visa (IV) or/and a Nonimmigrant visa (NIV) at various US Embassies and Consulates around the world. Legal assistance with reapplying for a visa after denial, applying for a waiver, or help when a previously approved petition was returned for revocation to USCIS.
- I-485, Adjustment of Status (AOS or "Green Card") in the United States: legal assistance with your application for permanent residency (Green Card) in USA. Helping your family member to obtain a work permit, travel document, and to become a permanent resident (get a Green Card), and eventually, a US citizen. If you are married to a US citizen and reside in the United States on another visa or after your visa had expired, we can help you to obtain a work permit and a Conditional two-year Green Card, a Permanent Green Card, and later a USA citizenship. Please schedule a meeting with attorney through our online scheduler.
- I-864, Affidavit of Support: assistance with the Affidavit of Support filed either with USCIS or NVC / embassy.
- I-751, Removal of conditions from a conditional green card (aka application for a permanent green card), either as a joint petition or as a divorce or domestic abuse waiver,
- Green Card for a Widow or a Widower of a US citizen: in some cases we can help you to obtain a green card even if your U.S. citizen spouse had died before filing a petition for you.
- Work Permit or EAD, and Travel Document (reentry permit or advance parole): we can help you to apply for a new work permit or a renewal, and apply for a travel document as well,
- Change of Status or Extension of Status: we can advise you and help you with the application, if you are in USA on a non-immigrant visa and qualify.
- Green Card Lottery or DV Lottery: we can help you with your initial DV Lottery online entry submission, and during entire visa application process if you are selected as a winner. Throughout the years, we had successfully helped a number of green card lottery winners (selectees) to become permanent residents and later citizens of the United States of America.
- I-360, VAWA self-petition or application for a Green Card because of domestic violence and abuse without your US citizen husband's or wife's, parent's or adult child's participation: we can help you to become a permanent resident and eventually a US citizen if you live in USA without a legal status, visa or a Green Card (if you are undocumented), and if you are/were battered and abused by your US citizen spouse (husband or wife), ex-spouse, parent or an adult child. For several years, attorney Luba Smal worked as a volunteer at YWCA Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Hotline. We have over 18 years of experience working with victims of domestic violence and specifically with VAWA self-petitions. We might be able to help you even if you are already divorced, a male victim of domestic violence and abuse, or left your abusive spouse and currently reside abroad.
- Humanitarian Reinstatement (after death of petitioner) and Reaffirmation of I-130 returned for revocation to USCIS by US consulate: help in extremely difficult and stressful situation where your previously approved I-130 petition (usually, for a foreign national wife or a husband) is returned back to USCIS for revocation after an immigrant visa (IV or CR-1 visa) was denied by the US embassy or consulate. We can help you to have your petition re-approved or re-affirmed by USCIS.
- Humanitarian relief: TPS, Temporary Protected Status, Humanitarian Parole, Work Permit, Employment Authorization, Travel Document.
- "Unbundled legal services" or "Limited Scope Representation": We can offer you help with a part, portion, or a phase in your case. Unbundled services are an economical way to offer certain services at a lower price rate for clients who only need legal help with a portion of their case. We can provide competent legal advice based on your individual needs, such as drafting the appropriate documents, petitions or applications, reviewing the applications prepared by you, advising you about the evidence required for your case, helping you only at the USCIS or only at the NVC phase of the immigration process after your petition was approved, helping you only with the Affidavit of Support, I-864; or only with online visa applications DS-260 or DS-160; or with the Extreme Hardship Waiver or Provisional Waiver application, or reviewing a file and providing a legal opinion. With unbundled legal services, you can decide what you need help with the most. Of course, we can also take your entire case and represent you from beginning to end. You can schedule a meeting here.
- DIY Documents and Case review or review of your self-prepared applications or petitions, if you are familiar with immigration process, and feel that you can do it yourself, and don't want to hire an attorney, but want an attorney to review your case before filing, and advise you before you file your case by yourself. Please email to inquire. We will send you a few questions, and email you a link to upload your forms in a secure online folder, and will schedule a 60-minute phone, zoom or video call meeting with an attorney. We are not going to review the hard copies, but e-forms (fillable PDF files that you completed yourself). We are going to advise you over a 60-minute phone or zoom meeting. You can schedule it here.
- Certified TRANSLATIONS from RUSSIAN to ENGLISH, and from ENGLISH to RUSSIAN of legal, official and other documents for USCIS, DHS, U.S. Department of State, embassies and consulates (for example, birth certificate, marriage certificate, divorce decree, premarital agreement, legal contract). Please email to inquire.
- NOTARY in the state of Nebraska. We can notarize your signature on the documents, including documents requiring an Apostille. Apostille is issued by the Secretary of State Office, not by a notary. We can notarize your signature on certain foreign-language documents in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian, prepared by you, or a notary in a foreign jurisdiction, or a lawyer in a foreign jurisdiction (for Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, other countries). For example, foreign power of attorney ('doverennost'), foreign application for retirement benefits, affidavit in a foreign language. We are not drafting the documents, but notarizing your signature. Please email us if you are looking for notarial services in Nebraska. Inquiries about notarial services are only by email. Information in Russian how to notarize a document in a foreign language with apostille in Nebraska to be used abroad is here.
To get in touch or to schedule a consultation, please email at Attorney@law-visa-usa.com or use our scheduling app.
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