AI for immigration lawyers
Ultramarine Work drafts the asylum declaration, answers the RFE demand by demand and maps each exhibit to the criterion it proves, using the interpreter notes, certified translations and notices already in the case folder.
Case-deadlines-Nov-16.xlsxExampleCase deadlines, week of Nov 16
- ChandranI-129 H-1B RFEDue Dec 4Waiting
The specialty occupation objection still needs the expert opinion letter, promised by Nov 20.
- KalyangoI-589 asylumExhibits Dec 28Flagged
Two declaration paragraphs cite pages the interpreter’s transcript does not contain.
- SatoI-129 O-1BFile Nov 24Ready
The petition letter maps 41 exhibits to four criteria and is ready for attorney review.
- Reyes-MataI-485 RFEDue Nov 30Flagged
The joint sponsor’s 2025 tax transcript is still missing from the I-864 response.
How it works
- 1
Set up the matter folder
Save the intake questionnaire and interpreter notes, the passports, I-94s and certified translations, the earlier filings, the RFE or hearing notice, and the country reports you already collected.
- 2
Ask for the next document
It writes the declaration in the client’s voice, the petition letter, the response matrix, the audit spreadsheet or the deadline calendar. Each comes back as a finished file.
- 3
Review it like a filing
Every statement cites the file it came from, and the draft flags the citations it could not confirm, so what remains for you is the argument and the client. Nothing is signed, filed, submitted or sent until you say so.
Inside the Immigration Law mode
Immigration petitions and applications
Turns questionnaires, translations and prior filings into I-130, I-485 and N-400 support letters, and drafts the RFE and NOID responses in the notice’s order.
Asylum and removal defense filings
Builds the declaration, the country conditions packet, the hardship argument and the motion to reopen, and gives every claim a source in the file or the report.
Employer immigration compliance
Checks scanned I-9s for the errors USCIS’s self-audit guidance names, writes the correction memos and builds the H-1B public access files a site visit tests.
Client intake conflicts and engagement
Runs conflict checks across name variants, relatives and affiliates before it drafts the engagement, limited scope or non-engagement letter.
Legal billing and trust accounting
Reconciles the IOLTA account three ways, tracks unearned flat fees apart from client-funded filing fees, and drafts bills that meet a client’s guidelines.
Court filing and docketing
Counts the RFE window, 84 days plus 3 for mail, and the 30-day EOIR-26, where receipt beats mailing, then calendars the biometrics and interview dates.
Legal memos and briefs
Drafts the memo on whether the 2018 theft conviction is a crime involving moral turpitude, and the BIA brief with point headings and the standard of review.
Legal authority verification
Finds the case or regulation each citation rests on, records why each was cited, and lists the authorities it could not confirm.
- Office skills
- Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDF
- Tools
- Read, edit and write files, Search files, Run code, Search and read the web, View images
- Connectors
- SharePoint, Google Drive, Gmail, and additional custom connectors
- House style
- Your fonts, layouts and rules, on every file
Ask it for
“Index every numbered challenge in the Chandran H-1B RFE from the Texas Service Center, one row per issue, with what we filed and what is still missing.”
Chandran-RFE-matrix.xlsx“Draft the O-1B petition letter for the principal dancer, one section per criterion and each claim tied to a numbered exhibit, then flag what the record lacks.”
O1B-petition-letter.docx“Turn the two interpreter interviews into a first-person asylum declaration in the client’s own words, and cite the transcript page for each paragraph.”
Kalyango-asylum-declaration.docx“Build the country conditions packet for the asylum claim, quote the State Department, UNHCR or press source behind each fact, and number every exhibit.”
Country-conditions-memo.docx“Audit Cedarline Logistics’ 214 scanned I-9s and list every missing signature, late Section 2, wrong document code and missed reverification, with the fix.”
I-9-audit-findings.xlsx“Check the citations in the BIA brief and list the cases that cannot be confirmed, the misquoted holdings and the precedent cited from the wrong circuit.”
BIA-brief-citecheck.pdf
Who it’s for
Immigration lawyers, paralegals and DOJ-accredited representatives in firms, nonprofits and corporate mobility teams.
Questions
Could it cite cases that do not exist, as in the briefs the courts sanctioned?
The verification skill looks up each authority a draft cites and notes anything it could not confirm, but you still read every case before you rely on it. In 2026 the Ninth Circuit suspended two immigration attorneys and fined each $2,500 over briefs with invented cases, and the Seventh Circuit fined another lawyer $5,000. The file it returns lists every authority it checked, and names the ones it could not find anywhere.
Can we put asylum files and A-numbers in the folder?
You can, but whether that is acceptable for asylum files is a call for you and your compliance team. Ultramarine Work changes files only in the project’s folder. When a request needs it, it can read files elsewhere on your computer, never passwords, keys or app data, and you can turn that off in settings. The model runs on Paper Instruments’ servers, so the content it works on is sent there to be processed. Paper Instruments is SOC 2 Type II, and our security and compliance details are on our compliance page.
Can our paralegals and accredited representatives use it, or is that UPL?
Yes, it can draft and organize for anyone on the case team, but it does not give legal advice to clients and it does not make the calls. Your accreditation, the supervising attorney’s review and the state UPL rules decide what staff may do, and nothing reaches a client or a filing without review. What changes is how the first draft gets made, not who answers for it.
Do we need client consent under ABA Formal Opinion 512?
Not necessarily, because Opinion 512 requires informed consent before confidential material goes into a tool that learns from it. The call belongs to your firm’s compliance counsel. We do not state that customer data trains models, and we do not state the opposite. Read our compliance page and ask Paper Instruments for the facts your policy needs.