Help!!!!my friend needs advice/ feedbacks

My friend found a hospital petitioner for GC in Guam with the agreement that he pays for the lawyer fee to process his petition. He ended up in a company he found online and had communicated with the company director and never with the lawyer. He initialy paid $1100 last September 2007 but upon his follow up with the company director this week, he was inform that his SWA labor certification is still on process and would take more than a year. He is required to pay the remaining balance of $700 as lawyers fee and filing fees upon filling of I-140.

He is currently working, visascreen on hand but very much aware that process for GC is slow currently but wants to know if this is worth pursuing and he is not being taken for a ride.