I am so pissed. Chapin went to see his immigration attorney tonight. You know, the one who took $5,000 of our money as a retainer and ended up filing a four-page “brief” in appeal of his citizenship denial. The last bill we got said that we had roughly $900 left in our account and she said we could file a supplementary brief if we wanted. We chose to wait to see what USCIS said. Well now, a year later, the USCIS came back and denied his appeal. They apparently think he has three children, one of which has the same name his two last names who he “concealed” which means he has bad moral character! Yes, someone at the local USCIS office is a FREAKING MORON!!!!! ARGH. And I don’t think we can appeal the appeal. Especially not after already spending $4,100. And, oh yeah, we’re divorced so Ms. Opinionated doesn’t have a say anymore. Chapin is worried that making waves will just piss USCIS off further.

Anyway, what pisses me off is not that his citizenship was denied (even though they are fucking stupid because they never even asked him during his interview about the issue upon which he is being denied and he was 100% truthful in his petition). What makes me furious is the damn immigration attorney. From the day she filed (by hand with only a handwritten receipt to prove filing), she has NEVER provided us with documents. She always swears she has mailed a copy of everything, but we never got a copy of the filing, nor a copy of the receipt, nor a copy of the USCIS denial letter despite requesting them numerous times. Every time we would call she would insist they must have been “lost in the mail”. And yet somehow her bills always made it to us…

Anyway, Chapin is beside himself and I tend to agree with him. This time last year she was saying we still had $900. Now she’s saying that, if anything, we owe her. For what?!?! We haven’t spoken to her since this time last year. AND I did all the transcription on her interview with Chapin and brought photocopies of all of the records up for her to our initial interview. The woman is on crack if she thinks we owe her. The problem I have is that, although I know I have the retainer agreement somewhere, it is probably in Chapin’s storage unit and will take some time to find.

My question for you is do we (and by we of course I mean him with me doing all the work – ugh!) file a claim with the bar against her for refusing to return the $900, failing to provide us with copies of any of the documents she produced for us and proof of filing and basically for being a mean and nasty bitch? Grrrr. What would you do?