Just as immigration lawyers around the country started getting the hang of the ever-changing immigration policies and politics, such as navigating around the border wall debate, wildly increased Request for Evidence (RFE), higher denial rates of nonimmigrant petitions with minimal reasoning in the denial decisions, and becoming experts at explaining the unexplainable to clients, we are now facing the new reality of virus-related office quarantines, testing our adaptability in a new way.

While many sectors of the legal field have long become amenable to working remotely, immigration practitioners are limited in their abilities to do so, simply because the government still requires the majority of immigration proceedings be filed in hard-copy format. Add to that the reality of multiple forms and supporting documents required to be submitted in duplicate, with hard copy filing fee checks and the resulting need for courier or Express Mail services, and the picture of a paper-heavy practice with substantial administrative support needs — when run on significant scale — comes to light.

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