What is it?
Immigrare is an analytical tool that you access over the World Wide Web. It can be used by individuals concerned with their immigration status, or by a judge or an attorney wanting to review the options available in an immigration or criminal case.
Built into Immigrare is a model of current American immigration laws, immigration regulations, and criminal statutes that affect immigration and visits to the U.S. Immigrare is easy to use because it interviews you by conducting a question-and-answer session with yes, no, or no-answer options. Your answers during this interview are used to build a scenario for the individual case in question. Immigrare also provides a set of rules to help you analyze the scenario against the model. And, lastly, it issues you a detailed report that you can save to your computer and print as you wish.
Disclaimer: Immigrare is only an analytical tool, limited by its built-in model and its analysis rules. It is not meant to take the place of legal advice from an attorney who can review the particular facts and circumstances of an actual individual case. Please read our disclaimer page.
You are assured security, since the answers you give during the interview only last during the interview session. As soon as Immigrare issues its report, or whenever you properly escape the interview, your answers are erased.
The individual case scenario you build does not have to be about you or a specific client. It could be about anybody or nobody. The scenario you build could be taking place now, or in the recent past, or the future. Be aware, however, that Immigrare will use its existing model and rules in their current form to analyze your scenario.
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How up to date is it?
Be assured that the staff at Immigrare, Inc., regularly reviews any changes in U.S. immigration laws and regulations, as well as changes in the American criminal code. When we see a change, we assess its impact. Then we update Immigrare's model and analysis rules. There may be a delay between the appearance of the change in American law and the reflection of that change in Immigrare.
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What are the details?
The normal way you work with Immigrare goes like this. Before beginning your session, you prepare what you need to build a case scenario about the person you have in mind. Your scenario may be real or just hypothetical. You then start analysis.
Immigrare will first ask you to pay our fee via PayPal, or to log in to your Immigrare account. Upon successful payment or login, Immigrare will begin its interview process. It will ask you mostly yes-or-no questions as well as questions about an individual's dates and numbers. Your answers to the questions build a scenario.
Immigrare is user-friendly. You can skip back and forth between questions, and delete or change your answers during the interview. You may have another browser window or tab open, to check outside information.
Once you are satisfied, you tell Immigrare to generate its analysis report. When the report page appears, please be sure to immediately copy or save or print the page using your computer's functions. Then check to assure that your action was successful. This is the end of the usual course of work: You do NOT get a chance to go back.
Please Note: Once you pay our fee or log in, you should work through the entire interview until you finish and receive a report. If you happen to leave the interview for any reason (including power failure), you will have paid for a service you did not receive. You may contact us to request a refund through PayPal or a credit to your Immigrare account.
The person you have in mind for your scenario may be real or imagined. Immigrare doesn't ask for a person's identity. And, Immigrare does not assume that you are the person in the scenario.
You can, of course, go through the Immigrare analysis multiple times, varying your answers each time to build "what if" scenarios. (Each time, you will be paying or logging in to your account.)
Your answers at each step in the interview actually change the questions you will be asked later in the interview. They also change the analysis itself. You may wish to skip answering some questions, leaving them blank, or as "no answer". This effectively removes consideration of the questions from the analysis. With experience, you will find that each of your answers (or lack of them) can affect the analysis dramatically.
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What does the report mean?
(See a sample report here.)
The analysis report contains two major parts on one (perhaps long) page: (1) the conclusions and (2) a scenario feedback. In the conclusions part, a summary appears first, giving quick overall statements. Then, several detail sections appear. These sections:
- List immigration removal charges that might lead to removal of the person from the U.S.
- Tell whether there will be a deferral of removal for the purpose of criminal prosecution.
- Describe what kind of removal proceedings there may be.
- Report whether the person would be detained before removal.
- State whether there are potential benefits or relief from removal.
In addition, two other sections describe benefits, waivers, and relief that may or may not be available to the person. Although items in the detail sections may appear very similar to other items, you can usually tell the difference by the reference list that accompanies each item.
Throughout the conclusions part of the report, Immigrare lists references with each item. These references are citations to American law and federal regulations. You may be interested in reading these references to infer the reasoning used in the analysis. Or, you can begin to check up on complicating factors in your scenario that go beyond Immigrare's capabilities.
In the scenario feedback part of the analysis report, Immigrare lists the questions it asked you during the interview and the answers it thinks you gave. (Immigrare also includes the scenario feedback at the bottom of each interview page, so that you can change or correct as you go along.)
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