How to Use AI for Your Immigration Law Firm

As an immigration lawyer, there are many steps between an intake and the final adjudication of a case. There's scheduling meetings with clients, writing declarations, completing government forms and collecting and evaluating evidence.

All these steps are necessary, but they can be tedious. Luckily, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), immigration professionals can save time and money.

AI in Immigration Practices

Recently, AI has emerged to help make immigration casework easier for legal teams. For example, one tool for lawyers in the immigration field is Gen, a ChatGPT-like service that can enhance lawyers' work. The product, a collaboration between Vistalaw.ai and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, can help with research and summarization.?

There's also DraftyAI, which can create an asylum brief from a questionnaire. Immigration attorney Nadine Navarro has worked with software engineers to develop the tool. "We're not claiming to produce exactly the same thing a lawyer would do, but we believe it could save 80% of the time initially spent," Navarro told Bloomberg Law.

(And there's also Noodle, but more on that later.)

As AI becomes a bigger part of our lives, it is transforming how immigration lawyers approach their work.?

Benefits of AI Tools for Immigration Lawyers

AI tools can offer you many benefits. Artificial intelligence can:

Remove Redundant Tasks

AI can help you fill out immigration paperwork and even give application updates to clients. Being able to automate repeatable tasks can save you invaluable time.?

Eliminate Human Error

As humans, we're prone to errors. Immigration forms, in particular, have many boxes to check and questions to answer. One missed click or typo can easily affect your case. AI can eliminate the risk of error, which can enhance the client experience.?

Keep You Organized

When it comes to immigration cases, there are long processing times—it can take months, sometimes even years, to resolve a case. As you take on new clients and wait to close out cases, AI can keep you organized so you don't miss any deadlines.?

Save You Money

Automating tasks that lawyers, paralegals or other legal professionals take on can save money. For example, instead of having someone focus on scheduling meetings with clients, you can have them focus on other tasks that help cases move along. Or if you are starting a new firm, you can eliminate this role.

Allow You to Take on More Cases

If you can complete more work in a shorter amount of time, you can take on more cases. This can help your immigration practice grow.?

Noodle's AI Tools for Immigration Firms

Noodle has a wide range of tools to help immigration firms. Learn more below:?

Workflow Automation From Beginning to End

Noodle's AI provides assistance every step of the way, including help with questionnaires and immigration forms.

Form and Document Management

Our AI tools can request and process immigration forms, including LCA, H1-B petitions, DS-160/260, employer forms and more. As it also keeps track of progress and monitors what forms are missing information or have mistakes, you can feel secure that you are filing forms when you should and eliminating errors in the process. And when there's progress with these forms, our AI tool can also send reminders and confirmations.?

Invoice Generation

Running a business means you might have to chase down payments. Noodle takes that task out of your hands. You can set up your account to request payment after you complete specific actions, and with auto follow-ups, you don't have to spend extra time worrying about getting paid.

Noodle will also prompt your clients to pay through a secure payment portal, which allows them to pay as they wish.?

24/7 Client Support

Immigration questions happen at any time of the day. With Noodle's AI Paralegal feature, your company is available 24/7 through chat. The chat possesses specialized knowledge of immigration law and your unique business, so it can help clients accordingly.

AI chat support means your firm is available outside of business hours. It can also help with lead generation on your website, prompting users to set up a consultation with you or help them decide why they should use your services.?

CRM Management

It is not rare to juggle several clients at once as an immigration attorney. Noodle's CRM management helps you keep growing your client list by capturing new leads, but it can also engage with existing leads and follow up with your clients.?

An immigration case can make your clients feel antsy when they don't receive enough information, and Noodle can help you communicate back and forth with clients and give them updates.?

Appointment Scheduling

Share your calendar and let clients book you based on your availability. Noodle's appointment scheduling also sends out confirmations and reminders so you don't have to follow up with clients ahead of meetings.?

Collaboration Tools

In one central location, you can find every single part of a client's case. Not only does this keep you organized, but it also allows you to collaborate with others. Assign a paralegal a task or ask your clients for more information about their cases. The activity feed updates automatically, so everyone is up to date on the case.?