The Law Offices of Derek Lim

I think my brother’s case was the toughest it could be and we actually did not know where to start. I sponsored my parents over 10 years ago to get their permanent residency and after that I used the 4^th priority — parent sponsor adult unmarried children to file for my brother (he was out of status with F-​1 VISA). I knew that it would take a long time but we still wanted to try. I used one of a well known immigration lawyer in San Francisco to help me filed my mom’s petition for my brother and I filed one with my dad’s petition myself. Guess what. I received the response from my dad’s petition but my mom’s petition was totally unheard. So I didn’t call this well known immigration lawyer knowing that they didn’t do a good job. One of my friends referred Derek Lim to me that he had good experience before.
I like Derek very much after my consultation (I had a few other consultation with other lawyers but none of them gave me any hopes). He reviewed my documents and gave me honest opinions. He told me that the case is very tough but still would be able to do it. So we hired him with little hope that he gave to us. He did not make false promises. He did file all the necessary paperwork for us and went to San Francisco for the interview with my brother, he did what he needed but it was not successful. He did not give up, he researched more and bravely suggested my brother to go back to Hong Kong to do the process as if he never left the country. There was no other choice but we are so glad that we followed his suggestion and my brother is granted a green card of his dream. No other lawyer would take this challenge, most lawyer would go for the easy cases. Derek and his staff are really responsive to all the questions we had and tried their best to research the answer for us. We are glad that we hired him and highly recommend him to anyone that need a responsible lawyer.

Derek and Christine recently finished working on my folks immigration case. They’ve made the process fairly seamless to us. Before using them I had no idea where to begin, but now I feel confident to say I’ve got fairly familiar with the application because among so many things we needed to tend to throughout the process, my father and I’ve had many questions here and there, like from how to prepare certain supporting docs for the applications, to understanding each letter we received from USCIS, and Christine promptly got back to my questions every single time, not only with adequate explanation/​info that are helpful/​educational but that also repeatedly demonstrated how responsive and accountable they are for their clients. It was a pleasure doing business with them, and I would highly recommend them to anyone who needs immigration related assist or representation.

We had a car accident case which is handled by Christine at Derek Lim in 2014 – 2015. Christine is very professional, and nice to talk with. She gave us many professional suggestions. Their secretary Bonnie and Francis are also very helpful and detailed in handling our case. We are very pleased with our case settlement in the end.

I worked with Derek back in 02 on my immigration case. I had a green card but needed citizenship to move my family over quickly. I had a hold on my transition to citizenship due to some legal issues I had at the time. Derek and Christine’s legal advice and service were instrumental to my eventual success in obtaining my citizenship in the time frame I aimed for. Their know hows enabled me to win favors in court against the legal issues I had at the time. They also charged me a reasonable rate unlike some other lawyers I had dealt later in my life who tried to milk me for as much as I have in my pocket.
Because of their professionalism, I also hired Derek for my personal injury case in 04 and I have also been referring my contacts to Derek. I trust that his office will continue to exhibit the same level of professionalism and the in depth knowledge in helping my associates.

This is a long overdue review. I am very pleased with attorney Lim’s service. My son and I wouldn’t be at where we are today without his help. I came to the U. S about 6 years ago based on my marriage with «Mr.Abusive» (my ex-​husband whom I met through a online dating website). My son came with me. I thought I had found a good husband and a loving father for my son because Mr. Abusive was all good, caring and well mannered when he lived with us in China. However it became a worst nightmare soon after my son and I arrived in the U. S and started living with him. He basically wanted a «maid» instead of a wife. He became very abusive, physically, verbally and mentally towards me and my son. He confided me inside his house. Everyday only cooking, doing laundry and cleaning the house for him and his ex-​wife who still visited him on a regular basis… He didn’t allow me to contact the outside world, refused to put my minor son into school and he didn’t want to file any immigration paperwork to adjust our status in the U.S. …I was desperate and had reached the lowest point of my life when someone gave me attorney Lim’s contact information and said he may be able to help me and my son, and he did! Attorney Lim filed VAWA (violence against women) immigration paper for me with my son included in the filing. After several rounds of submission of additional documents, the immigration service finally approved my paper and based on that my son and I obtained our greens cards, and eventually our U. S citizenship! Attorney Lim had helped us from the beginning to the end because I fully trusted him and believed in him. Thank you attorney Lim!

My mom is over 80 years of age and after many years in the US, she has decided she wanted to become a US citizen. I needed to find a lawyer that spoke Cantonese since my mom’s primary language is Cantonese and she doesn’t speak a lot of English. Derek Lim spoke Cantonese and is very nice and cordial and took his time to explain the whole citizenship process to my mom. Derek gave my mom a condensed list of questions for her to prepare for the oral exam. Derek also spent the time to have a practice oral exam to ensure that my mom was prepared. To make a long story short, Derek made the experience very unstressful for my mom and she is now a US citizen.

I have been working with Christine at Derek Lim for several years now, she is very professional, easy and nice to talk to, I enjoy working with her a lot. They have years of experience on how to handle immigration case, I would definitely recommend them.

This lawyer is a nice person, but be carefully! He is friendly fist, then he will said something is different and wrong! Lead you to a wrong decision making!!! And he will claim that he never mention that before.