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Immigrant Waivers
With a dedicated and talented team, Vanguard Immigration Support Services, LLC ensures that your clients experience seamless support in the preparation of immigrant waivers. Your reputation and professional responsibility to your clients is important to us. Read on to learn more about how we can streamline the work of waiver production while preserving quality and cost-efficiency.
Immigrant Waiver Types
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I-601 - Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility
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I-601A - Application for Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver
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I-212 - Application for Permission to Reapply for Admission to U.S. after Deportation/Removal
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I-612/DS-3035 - Application for Waiver of Foreign Residence Requirement
Hardship Types
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Extreme Hardship to Qualifying Relatives - For most I-601/I-601A waivers, unless the Beneficiary was convicted of an aggravated felony, in which case the standard is exceptional and extremely unusual hardship.
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Proof of beneficiary rehabilitation, lack of risk to national security, and favorable exercise of discretion by the USCIS, If barred because of CIMT* involving prostitution or committed 15+ years ago
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Exceptional Hardship to Qualifying Relatives - For I-612 Waivers
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Extreme Hardship to Qualifying Relatives and a favorable exercise of discretion - For I-601 waivers involving beneficiary fraud/misrepresentation
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Favorable Exercise of Discretion (based on 11 factors) - For I-212 waivers.
*CIMT - Crime Involving Moral Turpitude.
Waiver Preparation Process
VISS employs a proprietary system for collecting and integrating client information to prepare comprehensive and extensively documented waiver letters.
Using VISS to prepare your Immigrant Waiver packets will:
Introductory Packet and Client Questionnaires
Our proprietary Introductory Packet and Client Questionnaires reduce the time you spend collecting critical client information and evidence by:
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Familiarizing the Petitioner and Beneficiary with the Waiver process
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Identifying qualifying and non-qualifying relatives
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Streamlining the collection of client information
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Identifying medical/psychiatric, economic, and educational hardships
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Systematizing the compilation of supporting evidence for each hardship
Identifying and Detailing Hardships and Qualifying Relatives
Often petitioners and beneficiaries fail to recognize the types of hardships that can support a waiver. Our Customer Service Associates are experienced in guiding clients through the process of identifying potential hardships that they might otherwise miss.
Usually, only U.S. Citizen/LPR spouses, fiance(e)s and parents of the beneficiary are qualifying relatives for purposes of establishing extreme hardship if a waiver is denied. However, when the basis of inadmissibility is a CIMT, or the beneficiary is applying for an I-612 or I-212 waiver, the children of the Beneficiary are also eligible qualifying relatives.
Identifying all the available qualifying relatives is an important part of the Hardship Analysis and the VISS is ever watchful to identify all qualifying relatives.
Extreme Hardship can be demonstrated in either the "separation" or "relocation" scenario if the waiver is denied. When seeking to prove that relocation of a qualifying relative(s) to the beneficiary's home country would inflict extreme hardship on that relative, an understanding of the conditions of the beneficiary's home country is critical to proving hardship.
VISS relieves attorneys of the burden of researching the conditions in the beneficiary’s native country and the hardship conditions suffered by the Petitioner. VISS, LLC maintains, and constantly updates, its database of:
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Country Conditions in over 75 countries around the world.
VISS, also relieves attorneys of having to research the nature and debilitating effects of over 80 common medical/psychiatric conditions as VISS maintains and keeps current a database detailing such conditions that can be directly inserted into waiver letters.
Collection and Indexing of Exhibts
VISS handles the time-consuming task of identifying the documents needed to support claims of hardship and obtaining them from your clients.
We can prepare emails and/or correspondence for you to forward to your clients, or we can interact directly with your clients to streamline collection of the necessary evidence of hardship.
Then, using proprietary software, we assume the time-consuming process of:
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Cataloging and organizing documents into usable exhibits
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Converting files to PDF format
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Splitting or merging client-submitted PDF files into appropriate exhibits
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Removing unneeded pages from PDF exhibits
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Tracking receipt of documents and requesting additional documents as needed
Drafting, Revising, Finalization of Waiver Letters
You provide the legal analysis and case citation needed to provide the best legal argument for granting a waiver; we provide the persuasive narrative that tells the client’s story. Writing that narrative is the most labor-intensive and time-consuming aspect of drafting a waiver.
Our experienced writers weave together the legal standards and Petitioner’s personal hardships into a compelling waiver narrative. With VISS drafting your waiver letters, you will:
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Produce high-quality waiver letters of approximately 15-25 pages, complete with exhibits;
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Reduce costs by producing waiver letters at a fraction of your hourly rates; and
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Increase the number of clients you can serve, generating more revenue for your firm.
Vanguard Immigration Support Service Clients
Trusted by Immigration Attorneys Across the Country
Vanguard Immigration Support Services is a paralegal services company.
We are not attorneys and do not provide professional services or legal representation to individuals.
We provide services exclusively to attorneys. If you require legal representation for an immigration-related matter, please contact your local State or County Bar Association.