I could do a lot of good for a few people instead of a little good for a lot of people.

You've touched on something very interesting because I think a lot of lawyers probably feel the same in that you've learned the academia, an academic part of it, but nobody, like an accountant, nobody's really told you how to run a business.

And in the UK, as I mentioned earlier, there are the two tracks.

There's the transactional lawyer and the trial lawyer.

The transactional lawyers are actually taught some of these things at school.

But not the trial lawyer.

They're not taught that.

That's probably the most urgent I'm guessing that needs the help the most, right?

What does that mean in terms of the calls you're getting from your clients? How are they feeling right now?

Clients are feeling pretty scared and confused.

One particular example is that when... parents come to the United States and there are some family tragedies, for example, one parent passes away and another is now alone, often US citizen children, naturalized US citizen children will want to sponsor them to keep them here.

But they come on a tourist visa often and that tourist visa does not last the entire time that the green card process takes.

And that not lasting, that status not lasting is now a huge consideration, which is also a consideration for those who are sort of laid off because they don't have status.

So the not having status or what is maintaining status now actually has a spotlight in these types of applications where you you didn't have to necessarily worry about that so much as long as you entered legally and you didn't have the intent to stay here.

And so the confusion and the fear has definitely caused a lot of stress in lives.

Can you give us a sense of that? What is it like for somebody, kind of the 101, like you said?

Have you ever seen anything like this in your career?

No.

And, and I think it's really important for people to understand the mechanisms of how this works.

When an international student arrives in the United States, they first go to the consulates or embassies of their countries.

There, they will receive a visa stamp after going through a rigorous interview process and fingerprinting to be able to get that visa stamp.

So, each of these students would have had the stamp say, "F-1." That is the......

code for student visas in this country.

How are you advising your international students right now?

Next time on Seattle Now, immigration attorney Tahmina Watson takes us through the legal aspects of international students in Washington who are having their visas revoked.

I think the immediate thing was they, they were confused.

They were scared.

I think the word "afraid" had come up many times, because it is, um, confusing about what this means for your status.