Terms of Use

Acceptance of These Terms

These Terms of Use constitute an agreement between you and The Messersmith Law Firm, P.A. regarding your access to and use of INA212.com.

The terms “firm,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to The Messersmith Law Firm, P.A. The terms “you” and “user” refer to the person accessing or using the website.

Your use of the website is also subject to the Privacy Policy, Website Disclaimer, and any additional notices displayed on a particular page or service.

General Information, Not Legal Advice

The website provides general information about U.S. immigration law, INA §212 inadmissibility, immigration waivers, visa refusals, entry problems, presidential proclamations, and related subjects.

You should not act, refrain from acting, file an application, make a statement to a government agency, travel, depart the United States, or allow a deadline to expire based solely on website content.

Legal information may not apply to your circumstances and should not be treated as a prediction of how a government agency, consular officer, immigration officer, court, or other decision-maker will act.

No Attorney-Client Relationship

Accessing the website, reading its content, submitting a contact form, sending an email, calling the firm, requesting a consultation, or communicating with the firm does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship.

An attorney-client relationship begins only after:

• The firm confirms that it is willing and able to accept the matter.
• Any required conflict review has been completed.
• The firm and client enter into the required written engagement agreement.
• Any required payment or other engagement condition has been satisfied.

Unless these steps are completed, you should not assume that the firm represents you, will protect a deadline, will take action on your behalf, or will preserve your ability to pursue a legal remedy.

Communications and Confidentiality

Information submitted before an attorney-client relationship exists may be reviewed to evaluate the inquiry and perform a conflict check. The submission does not obligate the firm to accept the matter or prevent the firm from representing another person, except to the extent required by applicable law and professional-conduct rules.

The firm does not agree to treat unsolicited information as confidential or privileged merely because it was submitted through the website, by email, or through another unrequested communication, except to the extent confidentiality is required by applicable law or professional obligations.

Electronic communications may be delayed, intercepted, misdirected, filtered, blocked, or accessed by third parties. Do not use ordinary email for urgent deadlines or assume that a message has been received until the firm confirms receipt.

Changing Immigration Law and Filing Deadlines

Immigration laws, regulations, government policies, filing fees, application forms, processing procedures, presidential proclamations, agency guidance, and court decisions may change.

Although the firm may update the website periodically, the firm does not guarantee that every page is current, complete, or applicable to a particular matter at the time it is viewed.

Website use does not extend, suspend, preserve, or toll any filing deadline, appeal deadline, response period, visa-validity period, authorized stay, departure requirement, or other time-sensitive obligation.

Government websites, official notices, and case-specific legal advice should be reviewed before relying on any deadline or procedural requirement.

Consultations, Legal Services, and Fees

Information about consultations, legal services, estimated fees, flat fees, or anticipated work appearing on the website is general information and does not constitute an offer or binding fee agreement.

The services to be performed, legal fee, payment terms, scope of representation, exclusions, client responsibilities, and termination provisions will be governed by a separate written engagement agreement.

Payment for a consultation does not necessarily require the firm to accept a case. A consultation may be limited to legal analysis or advice and may not include representation before a government agency or court.

No person is required to hire the firm after a consultation.

Permitted Use

You may access and use the website for lawful, personal, noncommercial purposes, including:

• Learning about general immigration-law subjects.
• Reviewing information about the firm and its services.
• Contacting the firm about a possible legal matter.
• Printing or saving a reasonable number of pages for your personal reference.
• Sharing a link to a publicly available website page.

Any permitted use must preserve copyright notices, trademarks, attribution, and other proprietary notices.

Prohibited Conduct

You may not use the website to:

• Violate any applicable law, regulation, court order, or legal right.
• Submit false, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, discriminatory, or unlawful material.
• Impersonate another person or misrepresent your identity, authority, or relationship with another person.
• Introduce malware, malicious code, automated attacks, excessive requests, or technology intended to impair the website.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to an account, server, database, form submission, communication, or restricted area.
• Scrape, harvest, copy, extract, index, or reproduce website content through automated means without prior written permission.
• Use website content to train, develop, populate, or improve a commercial database, automated advice product, artificial-intelligence system, or competing legal-information service without written authorization.
• Remove copyright, trademark, authorship, or proprietary notices.
• Interfere with another person’s use of the website.
• Use the website in a manner that could damage the firm’s systems, reputation, legal rights, or client relationships.

The firm may restrict or terminate website access when it reasonably believes these terms have been violated.

Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, the website’s original text, organization, page designs, legal explanations, graphics, logos, branding, downloadable materials, and other content are owned by or licensed to The Messersmith Law Firm, P.A. and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

“INA 212,” the INA 212 logo, The Messersmith Law Firm name, and related branding may not be used in a manner that implies sponsorship, endorsement, affiliation, or authorization without prior written permission.

No license or ownership interest is transferred merely because content is publicly accessible.

Written permission is required before republishing, modifying, selling, licensing, translating, distributing, displaying, or commercially exploiting substantial portions of website content.

Information and Materials You Submit

You represent that information and materials you submit through the website:

• Are accurate to the best of your knowledge.
• Do not unlawfully infringe another person’s privacy, confidentiality, intellectual-property, or other rights.
• May lawfully be reviewed and processed for the purpose for which they were submitted.
• Do not contain malicious code or harmful technological content.

You authorize the firm and its service providers to process submitted information as reasonably necessary to respond to the inquiry, conduct a conflict review, provide requested services, maintain security, and comply with applicable obligations.

Personal information is otherwise handled as described in the Privacy Policy.

Third-Party Websites and Government Resources

The website may link to government agencies, courts, consulates, service providers, news sources, publications, maps, social platforms, scheduling systems, payment providers, or other third-party resources.

A link does not necessarily constitute endorsement, sponsorship, approval, or verification of the third party or its content.

Third-party websites are governed by their own terms, privacy policies, accessibility practices, security measures, and content standards. The firm does not control and is not responsible for their availability, accuracy, content, security, or practices.

Government forms, instructions, filing fees, and requirements should be verified through the responsible agency before filing or relying on them.

Case Results, Examples, and Testimonials

Case results, examples, approvals, testimonials, and descriptions of prior matters are provided for informational purposes.

Descriptions of prior matters may omit or alter identifying information to protect confidentiality.

No website statement should be interpreted as a guarantee, promise, warranty, or prediction of a particular result.

Website Availability and Security

The firm may modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any website feature or content without prior notice.

The firm does not guarantee that the website will always be available, uninterrupted, error-free, compatible with every browser or device, or free of harmful components.

Website access may be affected by maintenance, hosting problems, cyberattacks, telecommunications failures, software errors, third-party outages, government action, or events outside the firm’s control.

You are responsible for maintaining appropriate security, backups, antivirus protection, device controls, and internet-access safeguards.

Disclaimer of Warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the website and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

The firm disclaims warranties and representations, express or implied, concerning:

• Accuracy, completeness, or currentness.
• Fitness for a particular purpose.
• Merchantability or noninfringement.
• Website availability or uninterrupted operation.
• Security or freedom from harmful components.
• The outcome of any immigration application, petition, waiver, appeal, visa request, admission request, or legal matter.

Nothing in these terms excludes a warranty or duty that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, The Messersmith Law Firm, P.A., its attorneys, employees, contractors, representatives, and service providers will not be liable for losses or damages resulting from:

• Access to, use of, inability to use, or reliance on the website.
• Inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, unavailable, or misunderstood website information.
• Missed deadlines, travel decisions, filings, statements, omissions, or other actions taken without case-specific legal advice.
• Third-party websites, services, content, systems, or security incidents.
• Viruses, malicious code, unauthorized access, data loss, service interruption, or technical failure.
• Indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages.

These limitations apply only to the extent permitted by law. They do not limit liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.

Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless The Messersmith Law Firm, P.A. and its attorneys, employees, contractors, and representatives from claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and reasonable expenses arising from:

• Your unlawful or unauthorized use of the website.
• Your material violation of these terms.
• Information or materials you submit in violation of another person’s rights.
• Your introduction of malicious code or interference with the website.

This section does not require indemnification for the firm’s own conduct where indemnification would be prohibited by law.

Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where federal law controls.

Subject to applicable law and any enforceable agreement providing otherwise, disputes concerning website access or these terms must be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction located in Florida.

This website is operated from the United States. The firm does not represent that website content or these terms are appropriate or enforceable in every country or jurisdiction.

Changes to the Website or These Terms

The firm may revise these Terms of Use to reflect changes in the website, services, technology, law, security practices, or business operations.

The effective date at the top of the page will be revised when updated terms are published.

Continued use of the website after revised terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated terms. If you do not agree with an update, stop using the website.

Miscellaneous Provisions

Severability

If a provision is found invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect to the extent permitted by law.

No waiver

A failure to enforce a provision does not waive the right to enforce it later.

Assignment

You may not assign your rights or obligations under these terms without prior written consent. The firm may assign these terms in connection with a lawful business succession, reorganization, or transfer.

Entire agreement

These Terms of Use, together with incorporated website policies, constitute the agreement concerning website use. They do not replace a separate legal-services agreement.

Headings

Section headings are provided for convenience and do not alter the meaning of the terms.

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