Stress and Client Involvement

If you conduct your immigration process yourself, you will be aware firsthand of the status of your case. You will not have to worry about contacting your representative and dealing with uncertainty. You will be able to calmly manage your affairs yourself, assured of accuracy of presented information. You will not find yourself in the ambiguous situation when YOU do not exactly know what is written in YOUR immigration forms.
Very often, when using the services of an immigration consultant
or lawyer, the client is forced to send tens of emails and make a number of phone calls to request information from the immigration representative regarding the status of his/her case. Large companies or popular consultants are often forced to ignore many such requests due to a heavy workload. Certainly, this leads to additional stress and increased frustration on the part of the client along with a feeling of restraint on his/her actions.

A psychological deception that often propels people towards a partnership with an immigration firm is that the company will perform the majority of the necessary work and will provide positive results. However, the company is unable to conduct the immigration process on its own; the client must still provide information and documents, check and verify drafts of immigration forms, etc. Here, the immigration firm plays a role of a sometimes-unnecessary mediator, and this is only in that case that the company/consultant is working honestly and conscientiously. Many cases exist when the representing company fills out some documents at its own discretion. When attending the immigration interview, the applicant has no idea what information is actually included in his application. If you maintain complete control of your own immigration case, you raise your chances of success and increase your awareness because you are the interested party.