Hi richard. My husband paid an agency for my spouse visa which cost 50k pesos.I wouldn't recommend you in hiring one because you can get all the help and advice in this forum. Obviously, the agency was after all a ripped off.
We paid them in full even before the start of the process but they were full of crap and b***s***
The process was so slow and they gave us requirements which are not needed. I was already a member of this forum that time but i wasn't that active so it was too late when some members of the forum advise me that i can do it by myself. We hired the agency because we wanted to make sure that we will not be refused especially that i am expecting and that i have had 2 previous visa denials in applying for a student visa for the US 7 years ago. (Although previous refusals has no bearing when you make a new application.)The agency promise this and that, etc. So we eventually we were to believed and fall with their sales talk.
But anyway, what's done is done. I got my spouse visa after all but i would say, we did the 95% of the effort. But if my husband didn't keep on calling them and make follow ups and gets angry on the phone, we wouldn't have gotten the visa in time. But i'd say charge to experience. At least we got the visa although we lost 50k pesos.
So please please dont hire any agency ok, they're all a ripped off, trust me on this. You will regret it. You can do it on your own. Just make sure you have all the documents needed and you will be fine and that your fiance will get her visa. Visit the vfs site and search on the forum and you will get answers from our members here. Goodluck on your application.
