San Jose, California Immigration Lawyers are facing heavy workloads

My expertise is computers and networks, not law. But I had been called in to service a network at a local immigration attorney’s office, and what I found was a busy office right in the middle of a recession of historic proportion. I’m grateful 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 attorney in San Jose, CA. The telephone rings, and I hear the legal assistant say that the next available appointment isn’t for almost a month. She basically has to say the same thing over and over in different ways, probably because that isn’t the answer the desperate person on the phone wished to hear. Unfortunately, people don’t usually get around to looking for an attorney until they are already out of time. They need assistance now.

San Jose, California is at the center 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 prosperous years, high tech employers brought in engineers from other countires. These workers, here on work visas, are now finding themselves unemployed and facing deportation. I did find it a bit strange that one of these unemployed engineers could still afford to send both his children to a Bay Area private school. I guess that education may be another casualty of the business cycle.

Immigration attorneys are now being paid big bucks to help these immigrants stay in the United States.

That’s the business cycle for you. Whenever one industry is doing poorly, another may be booming. You just have to be in the right place at the right time. Go figure!