Not long ago my family was blessed with the visit of my mother and father who live a great distance from our home here in Southern California. During this visit we were able to attend the Annual San Fernando La Union festivities. At this very nice affair my father happened to see an immigration attorney upon a local Filipino newspaper. After some time reading the contents he commented, "there sure are a lot of immigration attorneys," and then he asked, "you must see them all the time down at the INS?"

In consideration I realized that I had never seen most of the attorneys that advertise in the Filipino papers at the Immigration Service. I realized that after all these years dedicated to the practice of immigration law and after almost daily visits to the Immigration Service, I had never actually seen these advertisers personally represent clients at the CIS. I responded to my father by stating that most of the attorneys he was reading about sent underlings to the Immigration Service on their behalf. My father then poignantly commented, "well, isn’t that a big deal to the clients that hired them? The only answer I could think of was, "you would think so."