Is this a good deal for immigration lawyer?

This is what my husband paid back in 1980 and that was 27 years ago. I would say it's not a bad deal. Actually, if you can read English well enough and follow the rules, you can do all this stuff yourself. What you are paying for is the avoidance of all the aggravation of doing it yourself. When you do it yourself you end up making mistakes and having to re-do some of the paperwork. Because these lawyers do this paperwork all the time they know all the nuances of it and don't have that problem. However, you still have to sit in the INS office to be seen when your final interview comes up and the lawyer won't be with you for that. Take a book. That is an experience I will never forget.

The average fee is not $2000 to $3000 including all, unless done by a paralegal. And I never recommend that the petitions be done by them and the attorney just sign off on them. Have seen too many returned for additional information; in the US right now, and trying to go thru AOS, they will just send the petition back.

Fees also almost doubled just a couple of weeks ago, so the rates that they quoted on the phone more than likely changed.