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Lack of responsiveness and communication
“you need to be on top of her all the time, sometimes I would be annoying to get my stuff done. Many times she would give me a time to send stuff but end up missing the deadline”
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Unprofessional and unreliable behavior
“She will stop responding to any email after you sign the contract. She only responded to me after 2 months and said that she did not even realized that I am sending her emails.”
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Delayed and incomplete case handling
“My application was long due and she still did not send out my application. She will convince you that you can pay fees with USCIS and then take her sweet time to send out the application.”
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Prioritizing other clients over current ones
“First, we spoke in November 2017, and she was not sure about my case and prioritised other clients of hers and didn't speak to me for months.”
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Unsatisfactory refund policy
“she offered me a termination letter citing she has moved to a big law firm and would return only 25% of the money which I paid to her.”

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27 Jul, 2023 by Anonymous
She does not care about her clients. Takes a magnanimous amount of time to do anything. Doesn’t do things properly and when everything fails does not even bother to explain or help. Highly do not recommend if you are serious about getting anything
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11 May, 2023 by Tuseeta
Since the termination letter has been signed by her, I am more confident in writing this review, as I am not held down by the attorney-client relationship (as well as seeing her write details about her previous deals with clients including monetary details of the contract). First, we spoke in November 2017, and she was not sure about my case and prioritised other clients of hers and didn't speak to me for months. Next, I emailed her January 2018 and she didn't respond, prioritising other clients. End of February is when she decided to finally speak, and it was all sweet talk. From March till the next 10 months I made continuous payments and she never really reached back all these months. recommendations on October, and then didn't respond. Finally, after a lot of hustle I managed to get 6 recommendations written and approved (given I wrote most of the recommendations because it was my field of expertise). The only way you can get any work done from her is by sweet talking and showing her that she is best at her game. Her strategy is to play busy, she will cancel calls, say she has called you (when she actually hasn't), not get back to emails, so that you have to either give her the most importance or sweet talk to her (even if she is one of the most unprofessional person I have had to deal with). After getting 6 recommendations I was so tired of all the sweet talking that I decided to see whether she would ever get back, schedule calls or even pay importance to the case. The answer is nope! In these few years, whenever I have reached back to her, all she uses phrases like "don't consider the case as 5-6 years old, consider it as a new one", "you were not confident in your case". I reminded her that if I wasn't confident in my case,why would I have invested so much money (given she charges more than other higher qualified attorneys ) by doing a careful market survey. After 5 years of extreme unprofessional behaviour and not having the case progress at all, I got hit by the massive tech layoffs, I had no choice but to leave US. Finding a job in this scenario staying abroad becomes even more difficult, and my mental health was on the verge of a brekadown (given I was not close to the bay area and relocating within 60 days and finding a job was impossible). She offered me a termination letter citing she has moved to a big law firm and would return only 25% of the money which I paid to her. After all the hassle, unprofessionalism and a chance to have stayed in the country and continue my job search, I receive a letter of termination with only 25% of the money. Leave aside the pain in dealing with her owing to her extreme unprofessionalism, the monetary loss in not having a chance to search for a job is even more. I wouldn't have written this review if I hadn't gone through extreme mental exhaustion whenever I had to deal with her, including extreme unprofessional behaviour and the last nail in the coffin with the termination letter. I think the only reason why she gets away with this behaviour is because she knows that immigrants don't get back and sue lawyers who have at least temporarily contributed to ruining people's careers.
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27 Jan, 2022 by Swastika
Samira Nichols is irresponsible and extremely unprofessional. I started working with her in June 2021, soon after I signed the agreement she stopped responding. The application process never progressed. I'm still waiting for our contract termination letter and the amount I paid.
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26 Feb, 2021 by Anonymous
A wonderful profile with about 50 papers and 1000s of citations. Hired - paid in full. Nothing. As other reviewers said, sweet talk initially, produced sub-quality partial work. Ate up money and have nothing to show. Wasted time, effort and life with her.
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12 Jun, 2017 by Anonymous
here is my story, I hired her 1 1/2 year ago. as everybody mentioned sweet talk at consultation and then no response. she will not send out any documents until you keep bugging her. no answers to phone, text, email and no respect to time or deadline. she just don't care. I an not writing this review based on approval or denial of my case, but its the overall frustration dealing with her. she lies back and forth like no tomorrow. I am sorry but she needs to be more organized and put her self together before dealing with anybody's immigration issue, which I am sure is of paramount importance to us.
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