O-1A (not research) - finding a good law firm seems overwhelming
We are in the US on a O-1a visa (my husband is the primary) and he has been offered a position with a different firm. We will try to go with the O-1a option again but finding the best lawyer to handle the case just leads me down so many rabbit holes and I end up finding more concerning reviews than good ones.
In the past, he’s had his O-1a approved with premium processing and we’re looking to do that again if possible as we really want this approved asap. He’s not a researcher (he’s a consultant for lack of a clearer term of his expertise) and doesn’t have published work to present but he’s been approved before on the basis of accomplishments in critical roles, high salary, having won an award and basically proving that he is the “only one” who can fill this role (to put it very superficially).
I have been looking at Chen Immigration and had almost decided to go with them but now I’m a little worried that their experience is mostly within the research field. The company looking to hire him has been using Fragomen but never for an O visa (and the first time we used Fragomen a decade ago, they messed up and almost cost us our E2). Ellis Porter pops up but seems to get awful reviews here on Reddit.
I’ve also looked at Panteva law group in Chicago.
Is it even possible to find a strong, trustworthy immigration attorney with a good approval rate, who will reply and file in a timely manner - and who has substantial experience in handling O visas specifically? Should we go with a big firm with ten thousand cases worked - or find a smaller, boutique firm? The process (or cost) doesn’t matter to us, we’ve done it before, we just need to find the lawyer who will have the highest chance of getting the visa approved asap.
I apologize in advance if you all feel like this has been asked a million times before, maybe it has. But I have searched and still not found a mentioning of a firm we should absolutely go with. Thank you all in advance.