19.154.070 - Written contract -- Requirements -- Right to rescind. - Washington Statutes

Written contract — Requirements — Right to rescind.

(1) Before providing any assistance, an immigration assistant who has agreed to provide immigration assistance to a customer shall provide the customer with a written contract that includes the following provisions:

     (a) An explanation of the services to be performed;

     (b) Identification of all compensation and costs to be charged to the customer for the services to be performed;

     (c) A statement that documents submitted in support of an application for nonimmigrant, immigrant, or naturalization status may not be retained by the assistant for any purpose, including payment of compensation or costs;

     (d) A statement that the immigration assistant is not an attorney and may not perform legal services. This statement shall be on the face of the contract in ten-point bold type print; and

     (e) A statement that the customer has seventy-two hours to rescind the contract. This statement shall be conspicuously set forth in the contract.

     (2) The written contract shall be stated in both English and in the language of the customer.

     (3) A copy of the written contract shall be provided to the customer by the immigration assistant upon execution of the contract.

     (4) A customer has the right to rescind a contract within seventy-two hours of the signing of the contract.

     (5) Any documents identified in subsection (1)(c) of this section shall be returned upon demand of the customer.

[1989 c 117 § 7.]