San Jose, California Immigration Attorneys are getting heavy workloads
My business is computers and networks, not law. But I had been called in to service 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 glad their business is booming; otherwise they might not have had this work for me.
It’s just a regular weekeday morning at the office of an immigration lawyer in San Jose, CA. The phone rings, and I hear the legal assistant say that the next available appointment isn’t for almost a month. She frequently has to say the same thing over and over in different ways, probably because that isn’t the answer the helpless person on the phone wanted to hear. Sadly, people don’t usually get around to finding a lawyer until they are running out of options. They want help immediately.
San Jose, California is at the heart 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 years, high tech employers brought in engineers from overseas. These workers, here on work visas, are now finding themselves unemployed and subject to deportation. I did find it a little odd that one of these out of work immigrants could still afford to send both his children to a Bay Area private school. I guess they aren’t in that bad of shape.
Immigration attorneys are now in demand to help these immigrants remain in the United States.
That’s the business cycle for you. Whenever one industry is doing poorly, another may be booming. One just has to be in the right business at the right time. Go figure!
