google will do you good. I recommend them base on review but I’ll advise you to do your personal checks.
Do NOT trust or depend on google reviews when doing a background check or determining your choice of lawyer. It is no longer a secret that lawyers are famous for creating FAKE reviews with random bogus names. It is extremely easy to create a google account and use it to post reviews.
One trick a lot of lawyers are now using is offering
their clients discounts on legal fees in EXCHANGE for good google reviews. ( especially when the clients can not afford their FULL legal fees) , Most clients will be please to do this regardless of the quality of service they receive from a lawyer in a bid to reduce their legal fees.
Another tactic is to use third parties to create fake reviews. These parties provide the service of creating MASS FAKE REVIEWS. This will create the illusion of a large number of happy clients that have their immigration applications successful with the help of a lawyer. When you see or notice a large number of clients, a large number of positive
GENERIC google reviews( most especially when the review encourages you to use the lawyer), these are all patterns of reg flags. There are more but I don't have the time to expose them all.
What I wrote above is from me talking from experience which resulted in me flushing about 10,000 dollars down the drain to a lawyer. If I show you a copy of the application the lawyer did for me, your jaw will drop. You will never believe a lawyer did my application. The IRCC officer that worked on my application at the time pointed out a series of AVOIDABLE mistakes in that application in my refusal letter. You can tell by the IRCC officer's comments that she was implying that this lawyer did a bad job. However, she did not say it in black and white in the refusal letter Trust me, A high school student will do a better job.
Take any google review you see with a grain of salt! Lawyers are using this pandemic as an opportunity to milk clients.
The pandemic has affected their revenue. So, clients are now used as a CASH-COW to keep them in business.
I did my h&c application by myself. I have made tremendous progress on my application to the point that the IRCC officer working on my application contacted me. There were some things that happen that have given me the green light that my application will be approved.
The point I am driving at here is, as an applicant; you know your immigration story more than a lawyer. It is your life experience. You are in a better position to write an attention-grabbing story that will draw the attention of an IRCC officer.
For as long as you back your story up with STRONG COMPELLING EVIDENCE and it is convincing without reason(s) that attract doubts or "balance of probabilities", there is a high chance of approval OR at least for an IRCC officer to be sympathetic with your case. There have been so many success stories of people in this forum that did their application by themselves and their application was approved.
This is why this forum is very good as members in this forum are willing to give you HONEST advice and share their experiences with you which you can apply in your own application.
I have a friend who previously use a lawyer. The lawyer keeps asking for more and more money whenever he goes to his office to provide his lawyer with more evidence to add to his h$c application. Just a phone call to his lawyer alone, the lawyer will charge my friend money. His legal fees keep going up This was what angered my friend and decide to cancel the lawyer and do his application himself. Guess what, his application was approved!
The ONLY condition that will make me support the use of a lawyer is if you are an extremely busy person( especially with work and family). That is, You hardly have time. OR if your English writing skills are not proficient or if you don't know how to express yourself or present written arguments and package your application(along with your evidence). These are few situations I will understand why one will use a lawyer.
Lawyers will take any case, not because they are interested or sympathetic about your situation. they are after your money. Regardless of the outcome or decision of your application, you have to pay them their money or empty your bank account for them.