San Jose, California Immigration Lawyers are getting heavy workloads
My expertise is computers and networks, not law. But I had been asked to work on a system at a local immigration lawyer’s office, and what I found was a busy office right in the middle of a recession of historic proportion. I’m grateful they are busy; otherwise they might not have had this work for me.
It’s just a regular Tuesday morning at the office of an immigration lawyer in San Jose, CA. The phone rings, and I overhear the legal assistant say that the next available appointment isn’t for almost four weeks. She often has to say the same thing over and over in different ways, probably because that isn’t the answer the helpless person on the line wanted to hear. Unfortunately, people don’t usually get around to looking for an attorney until they are running out of options. They want assistance right away.
San Jose, California is at the center of the “immigration law” market, not only because it is near the agricultural areas of Salinas and Gilroy, but because it is the “capital” of Silicon Valley. During Silicon Valley’s good times, high tech businesses hired engineers from India. These immigrants, here on work visas, are now finding themselves out of work and subject to deportation. I did find it a bit strange that one of these unemployed engineers could still afford to send both his children to a Bay Area private school. I guess that education may be another casualty of the business cycle.
Immigration lawyers are now needed to help these immigrants stay in the US.
That’s the business cycle for you. Whenever one industry is going bust, another may be doing very well. One just has to be in the right line of work at the right time. Go figure!
