These people would have you believe they will:Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel - WikipediaThey sent the infamous u201cGreen Card SPAMu201d, which was the first large scale SPAM ever sent.As a practical matter, there are certain things that you should do a certain number of days, weeks, or months ahead of time, and itu2019s really a matter of working backwards from that to get the timing.If you are working for a large corporation on an H-1B, and want help getting through the green card requirements, most large companies H.R. departments can give you a u201ctiming checklistu201d.The U.S. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is no longer permitting expedited applications.You can blame Trump for this, or you can blame the actual reason, which is that there are a certain number of slots reserved for H-1Bu2019s for people with graduate level degrees, and then thereu2019s u201ceverybody elseu201d, which means Bacheloru2019s degrees.As a result of expedited requests by people with Bacheloru2019s degrees, the number of H-1Bu2019s in the various quotas were consumed, leaving people with graduate degrees without a visa.ICE would prefer to get the people with Masteru2019s and PhDs, they want any overflow from the graduate degree reserve to soak up the slots that might go to the remaining u201ceverybody elseu201d degrees,In other words: they want to get as many graduate degreed people as possible, and they want the bacheloru2019s degrees to get whateveru2019s left after that (and if thereu2019s nothing left: too bad).The issue with green card sponsorship is that the only people who can speed that up are the people who are sponsoring you.Thatu2019s typically by getting the paperwork all correct, and in before all the deadlines.While a lawyer can help with thisu2023 an HR checklist for what has worked in the past is going to be better, since it means that that HR department has moves a lot of bodies through the process, while an individual lawyer can only do so much.One of the biggest things in this regard is the medical examinations, and the Form I-693 u2023 Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record.Other are:I-485 u2023 Green Card ApplicationI-130 u2023 Help My Relative ImmigrateI-864 u2023 Affidavit of SupportI-131 u2023 Apply for a Travel DocumentEtc.Again, all that depends on who is doing the sponsoring.If itu2019s an employer, they already have a process: do this then, do this now, do that later, turn the crank, pay the fees: presto! Green Card!If itu2019s a relative doing it for you, you might need a lawyer.But really, the long tent pole will be the vaccinations, since they have to be done over a period of months, and are something you can just go in and get in a day. And you have to get proof of the vaccinations, and it has to be acceptable proof to ICE.Any medium to large employeru2019s HR department will walk you through this.