About Akst & Akst PLLC

What is known about Akst & Akst PLLC

The verified overall score for Akst & Akst PLLC has not been published. Below is the available service information, source materials, and limitations of the study. Lack of rating does not mean poor quality of services.

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Platform ratings

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Facts and data boundaries

Company overview

Direction

US Immigration Services

Service languages

Russian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, German, Spanish, Portuguese

Data Status

Historical reviews; description verified October 9, 2026.
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Updating materials

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Declared service areas

• Employment
• Family
• Investor
• Consular Processing
• Citizenship

A company's self-description does not constitute independent verification of qualifications or results. Check on the official website.

Specialization and suitable clients

According to the description on the official website, Akst & Akst PLLC is a boutique American immigration law firm, founded, according to the firm itself, by George Akst in 1977. The firm positions itself as a family practice, working with private and corporate clients.

The site states that the firm represents international clients looking to relocate anywhere in the United States, and that its clients are located in all 50 states and more than 100 countries. This is an official statement by the company and not an independently verified fact.

Among the declared categories of clients are companies from various industries (including IT consulting, jewelry business, medical and psychiatric organizations), athletes and coaches, musicians, artists and entrepreneurial investors. This information is taken from the website text and reflects the positioning of the company.

• Boutique immigration practice, according to the website description - since 1977.
• Work with individuals and companies.
• Declared customer geography: all 50 states and more than 100 countries.
• Office in New York, serving clients throughout the United States.

Confirmed services and locations

The site's home page lists five practice areas: Employment, Family, Investor, Consular Processing and Citizenship. This is the officially stated list of the company's services.

The site's text mentions specific types of cases: work visas (including H-1B for college graduates), B-1/B-2 travel visa extensions, green cards for foreign spouses and families, and investor visas for entrepreneurs investing in their own companies in the United States. An example of O3 visa approval in London is also mentioned in a client review on the site.

Geography: the office is located in New York (800 Third Avenue, 26th Floor, New York, New York 10022). The site claims to represent clients throughout the United States. No other offices are indicated in the materials provided.

• Employment - work visas and employment.
• Family - family immigration, green cards for spouses and relatives.
• Investor - investor visas for entrepreneurs.
• Consular Processing - consular processing.
• Citizenship - citizenship.
• Office: New York, 800 Third Avenue, 26th Floor.

Russian language

The official website directly states: “We have the ability to speak to our clients in Russian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, German, Spanish and Portuguese.” Thus, Russian is listed among the customer service languages.

This is the company's statement about the team's language capabilities. The package provided does not contain independent confirmation of the level of Russian language proficiency of specific employees, and there are also no reviews from Russian-speaking clients.

• Russian is listed on the official website among the service languages.
• There is no independent confirmation of language skills in the available materials.

Working with the company

Fact from the source: the site describes the approach as individual strategies for each client’s circumstances, regular contact with the client and information about the development of the case and changes in legislation until the final decision. This is the company's official description of the process.

Fact from the source: the website contains a telephone number (212) 308-3999, a fax (917) 261-5642 and a feedback form with fields for name, telephone, email, source of information about the company and a brief description of the reason for the request.

Questions that are not disclosed in the source and that make sense to ask before starting work: who exactly from the team will conduct the business, how communication is organized and with what frequency, who responds to urgent requests, how documents are transferred.

• Stated approach: individual strategies and regular contact with the client.
• Contacts on the website: phone (212) 308-3999, fax (917) 261-5642, feedback form.
• Not disclosed in the source: personal composition of the team on the case, frequency and channels of communication.

Fees and contract

In the official pages of the site provided (home, “About Our Firm”, “Our Team”) there is no information about the cost of services, fees, contract form and payment terms.

This is not a shortcoming of the company - such information is usually discussed during the consultation. However, it is impossible to confirm prices or terms of the contract based on the sources studied.

• Prices and terms of the contract are not indicated in the sources provided.
• The cost and payment procedure should be clarified directly when contacting.

Platform reviews and limitations

The sources studied do not contain independent customer reviews: the reviews list is empty, historical ratings of sites are not collected. Data collection from a number of external sites (Trustpilot, Glassdoor, Lawyers.com, Avvo, Martindale, etc.) did not produce results within the sources studied.

The only review-like material is a short fragment of client gratitude on the official website (about a successful application for an O3 visa in London). This is material posted by the company itself, not an independent site, and is not an established fact.

Limitations of the sources studied: historical snapshot, collector failure, incomplete coverage. Identity and deduplication are inherited from the dashboard rather than independently verified by clients. The selected sample, with exceptions, does not constitute a comprehensive independent ranking.

• There are no independent customer reviews in the sources studied.
• The only review-like material is a fragment on the company’s website.
• The sources studied are incomplete; conclusions about reputation cannot be drawn on their basis.

Strengths mentioned in reviews

There are no independent customer reviews in the sources reviewed, so it is impossible to identify confirmed strengths from reviews.

The only positive material is a short fragment of gratitude on the company’s website, where the client reports a successful application for an O3 visa. This message is posted on the company's official website and does not constitute independent confirmation.

• There are no independent reviews with confirmed advantages in the sources studied.
• The gratitude fragment on the company's website is not an independent source.

Company complaints and responses

In the sources studied, there is not a single customer complaint: the reviews list is empty, independent sites did not provide the collected materials.

Since there are no complaints in the sources, the company’s responses to them are also absent. This is a limitation of the sources studied, and not evidence of the absence or presence of complaints in reality.

• There are no complaints in the sources provided.
• The company's responses to complaints are not available in the sources.

Frequently asked questions

What clients say

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Sources and updates

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