Quotes from authoritative sources on why you need an immigration attorney
to guide you through the maze of immigration law

"Immigration law is a mystery and a mastery of obfuscation, and the lawyers who can figure it out are worth their weight in gold."
- CIS spokeswoman Karen Kraushaar.

"Immigration law is very complex." Castro-O'Ryan v. INS, 847 F.2d 1307, 1312 (9th Cir. 1988)

"With only a small degree of hyperbole, the immigration laws have been termed 'second only to the Internal Revenue Code in complexity.' A lawyer is often the only person who could thread the labyrinth.". E. Hull, Without Justice For All 107 (1985).

"Immigration laws bear a "striking resemblance ...[to] King Minos's labyrinth in ancient Crete. The Tax Laws and the Immigration and Nationality Acts are examples we have cited of Congress's ingenuity in passing statutes certain to accelerate the aging process of judges." Lok v. INS, 546 F.2d 37, 38 (2d Cir. 1977)

"This case vividly illustrates the labyrinthine character of modern immigration law-a maze of hyper-technical statutes and regulations that engender waste, delay, and confusion for the Government and petitioners alike. The inscrutability of the current immigration law system, and the interplay of the numerous amendments and alterations to that system by Congress during the pendency of this case, have spawned years of litigation, generated two separate opinions by the District Court, and consumed significant resources of this Court. With regret and astonishment, we determine, as explained more fully below, that this case still cannot be decided definitively but must be remanded to the District Court, and then to the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"), for further proceedings." Drax v. Reno, 338 F.3d 98, 99-100 (2d Cir. 2003)