To illustrate the size of the bundle, I offer a real-world example. A solo practitioner with a small practice had worked hard all his life and was nearing retirement age in late 1997. For almost a lifetime of hard work, all he had to show was a modest home in a modest suburb and a bank balance too small to retire on. After expenses of running the office, what he took home was, of course, less, but the money he earned in those few weeks is now his retirement nest egg. The purpose of this real-life illustration is to make the point that there is considerable financial opportunity for much of the immigration bar between now and April 30.
Attorneys can take on one year's worth of cases in the next ten weeks.
Therefore, it behooves lawyers to give serious attention to their plans for running their practices for the next ten weeks. Each of these is discussed below. Over the last two years, practically every immigration law practice has had potential clients who could not be helped in view of the law as it was then. Now is the time to convert these folks from potential clients into actual clients. Further details are best handled on the phone or in person.