Practice system
Immigration, run as a system.
Visa petitions, adjustment of status, removal defense, citizenship: government-form and queue-driven.
USCIS/EOIR form lifecycles and published processing queues. Most deadlines are the government's, not ours: the job is tracking their clock and pouncing on the few short windows that are ours.
Stage
Form type
I-130 / I-485
Priority date
Current
Status expires
61d
Computed: Queue Tracker
Days pending vs. published USCIS processing time, with monthly visa-bulletin movement tracked against the priority date.
Posture
One question decides how the whole matter reads.
Do we represent the petitioner, the beneficiary/applicant, or both?
What it tracks
The documents this practice actually produces.
Government forms & receipts
RFE / NOID
Approval / denial notices
Status documents (I-94, EAD)
EOIR filings (removal)
Computed
Queue Tracker
Days pending vs. published USCIS processing time, with monthly visa-bulletin movement tracked against the priority date.
Opening checklist
What starts moving on day one.
- Conflicts: petitioner/beneficiary joint representation advisement
- Engagement + G-28 filed
- Eligibility screen memo
- Complete document request per form type
- Status-expiry calendared from day one
Questions
Before you book the call.
- Do you build a matter management system specifically for immigration practices?
- Yes. It runs on the same MATTER Method as everything else I build, configured for how immigration actually moves: USCIS/EOIR form lifecycles and published processing queues. Most deadlines are the government's, not ours: the job is tracking their clock and pouncing on the few short windows that are ours.
- What does the system actually track for a immigration matter?
- Every stage from strategy & eligibility to decision, the facts that matter most for this practice (form type, priority date, status expires), the document set the matter actually produces, and one computed read: queue tracker, days pending vs. published USCIS processing time, with monthly visa-bulletin movement tracked against the priority date.
- Can I get this through MatterOS, or does it need a custom build?
- Both. It ships as a configured practice pack inside MatterOS for solo and small-firm workflows, or as a private, purpose-built system when a firm needs more control over data, integrations or workflow. Either way, we start with a short call to see which fits.
- Do you also handle litigation technology and expert witness work for these matters?
- Separately, yes, under the same practice. If a matter needs digital evidence structured or presented in a US courtroom rather than just tracked, that is the second half of what I do. See the Services page for how that engagement runs.
Take it home
Don't want a build engagement yet? Take the blueprint.
Immigration is one of the twenty-two packs inside Practice Pack Blueprints, the stages, vitals, deadline logic and document set for this practice, ready to install yourself. Two minutes on the readiness audit will tell you honestly whether that's enough, or whether this practice needs the full build.
Bring me the immigration matter. I've probably built this before.