I am a Filipino lawyer and i want to take the Florida, USA Bar examination.What steps should I undertake?
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There are two distinct applications that must be completed:\n\nThe Exam Application, to be considered timely filed, must be postmarked by the filing deadline (Florida Bar Examination Schedule and Filing Deadlines). If you miss the timely filing deadline, you can still apply for the exam by submitting the appropriate late filing fee with your completed Exam Application.\n\nThe Bar Application should not be delayed as the background investigation consumes 6 to 8 months. The sooner you initiate the process by filing the Bar Application, the sooner the investigation can begin. Your quick response to requests for incomplete or additional information will assist in the prompt completion of the investigation.\n\nIf you do not file the Bar Application simultaneously with the Exam Application, Rule 2-22 requires the filing of the Bar Application within 90 days of the notice from this office that success has been attained on all parts of the Florida Bar Examination.\n\nRegistration is $75 if filed within 180 days\nExam fee is from $375 for early registrants to $2500 for attorney's admitted 15 yrs. or more. \n\nThe Bar Application and Exam Application are available at no cost on http://www.floridabarexam.org/public/main.nsf/faq.html?OpenPage\n\nMabuhay and Godbless!
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If you want a law degree that will actually allow you to practice law in the United States, you should look solely at ABA law schools. \nHere in the States, actually practicing law requires that you take (and pass) a 'bar exam' after completing law school (you actually take a portion of the exam while still in law school, but the big part is after). These exams are administered on a state level, so that if you want to practice law in California, you must pass the California bar exam. Some states have what is called reciprocity that makes it so states will accept a bar exam  score(or a certain amount of legal experience) from another state. You can find out about a state's reciprocity bydoing a quick search, or visiting the website for that state's bar assosciation. \nThe problem with non-ABA schools is that only two or three states will even allow you to take the bar exam unless you attend an ABA accredited law school. That said two of those states are California and Florida. You should look at the bar pass rates for the schools as well, since unless you pass the bar you can't practice law in the states.\nIf you do end up having to take the LSAT I have heaps of advice on that (I scored in the 99.9th percentile).\nyoungnedofthehill@yahoo.com
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You need to have a Bachelors degree first, then graduate from an American Bar Association accredited Law School.  After graduating from the Law school, you must then pass the states Bar exam of each and every state you wish to practice in.
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Bar examinations in the United States are administered by government agencies of individual states, except for the patent bar, which is separately administered by the Office of Enrollment and Discipline of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.\n\nIn the United States, some states require bar association membership for all attorneys, while others do not.\n\nSome state bar associations are operated by their respective state governments which make membership in their state's bar association a requirement to practice before that state's courts; such states are said to have a "mandatory" or "integrated bar." \n\nIn some places membership in a bar association is voluntary and in addition to any licensing that may be required by the state or the court system.
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That depends on the country where you live now.  Your best action would be to contact the U.S. Consulate in your country. The website of the consulate should be listed here:\n\nhttp://usembassy.state.gov/
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Well, you have to the Bar exams in the U.S if you want to be a lawyer.
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check out www.visajourney.com ... i started process in June for a K-1 from the Phils.\n\nGood Luck!
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go to http://www.napolcom.gov.ph/ makikita mo ang results dun. you just have to choose what type of exam you took.
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http://www.immigration.com/frame/inscasestatonlinefr.html
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Try applying for a visa or a Green card at an American embassy or consulate. Then you can apply for citizenship, in which you will have to pass a test.
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get a lawyer who specializes in the immigration laws.   \n\nIf you go through the legal process good luck and welcome to the USA\n\nIt helps if you have the skills to perform a job that is always looking for employees and has a hard time finding \nqualified employees already in the USA.
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Depends..you would have to apply to get a dual citizen if you want to be a citizen of the Philippines & US.  If you live in the states of course he will be a US citizen in a few years.
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Contact the bar Association of PA and ask for some referrals...Good luck!
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First, if you're already a lawyer, learn immigration law.  There are many supposed professional immigration attorneys who don't know the INA well, and give very bad advice to their clients.  If you aren't a lawyer, either get a law degree or become a paralegal and find a job in an immigration attorney's office.  A Chinese speaker would be welcome in many such offices.\n\nYou will need to live and work where your clients are.  Of course there's money in immigration law.
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I'm currently a 2L taking my 4th semester of exams, and here's my advice:\n\n1) Learn how to take law school exams.  At least look up some sample exams in Contracts, Property, and Torts on-line before the first one slaps you in the face.  If possible, take a law school exam writing class before your first set of exams.\n2) Have diligent study habits:  Read, take notes summarize, learn how to spot issues in your reading, learn what's important (meaning given more points), and make sure you KNOW those things\n\nAlso, many incoming students don't know:\n1) That most schools do not have quizzes or homework to subsidize your grade in the classes.  Your grade on your final exam is often the only grade you get and the TOTAL grade for the class.\n2) That many bar schools have a mandatory curve for classes that will be tested on the bar exam.  In other words, only 8% to 10% of the people in your class will get A's, and 8% to 10% will get a C- or less.\n\nLaw School is tough, and can be very rewarding.  Best Wishes!
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Before you do anything, check out the local filipino community and see if they can help with advice.\n\nIf you want to go there, do your homework on where you're going. If, for example you intend to settle in Palawan or Mindoro the chances are you'll get kidnapped unless you have bodyguards. Manila is OK but again, areas are dangerous expecially at night. Best option is somewhere like Baggio, Tagatay, Quezon City or Angeles City. you can live very well there on a monthly income of £400, as long as your accomodation is paid for, i.e you own a decent house. Remember the PI is a developing country so theres no constant electricity, Water is pulled up from a deep well and utilities are unreliable.\nEnglish is very widely spoken in PI, mostly at basic level but certainly enough so you don't have to learn Tagalog. The traffic, corruption and way of life suits some, but not all. Best advice is to go there a few times yourself, bring her here on a tourist Visa a couple of times (you need to provide funds in her A/C for that) and go from there.\n\nMake sure you have all the Visa regs sorted out, an overstay makes her persona non grata. for you ging there , there are visa rules but there are ways around it through corruption.\n\nIf she comes here and improves her English then she can qualify for a work permit after 2 years (I think) and find gainful employment. Local filipino communities are very helpful and easy to find, pin a notice up in your local hospital where there are probably numerous Filipino nurses, or simply ask someone.\n\nAlso, if you bring her here she will want to call home all the time (boredom, homesickness) so get a load of cheap international phonecards. \nGood luck
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Try floridalegal.org/ProBono/fpbca\n\ngood luck