Along with the newsletter, you'll be making an anonymous $100 donation to a deserving client in my office who is behind on a payment plan on one of our below-market contracts. Again, the money will be 100% DIRECTLY APPLIED to an actual legal fee on an already-existing contract for deportation defense representation and nowhere else.

You'll also be guaranteed one scheduled phone call of up to 15 mins/month to ask questions and/or discuss anything I've written about, consult on a complex immigration law question (or dating advice, PhD thesis review, whatever really--it's your time!), hear my war stories from immigration court, or really anything else at all I can help out with. (I'm willing to roll over unused time into subsequent months, within reason.)

Are you not totally sure about the difference between $3.50 and $350? This one's for you!

As with the tier above, your subscription fee at this level will be applied directly to the balances of deserving clients in our office who are facing deportation. Not just in a general help-us-run-the-office way, but directly to specific billing accounts  for asylum seekers, domestic abuse survivors, unaccompanied minors, and other people we wish we could afford to take on pro bono but simply can't after so many years of "low bono" practice.

Our monthly payment plans require clients to pay about $300-350  each month toward their flat-fee below-market contracts. Your donation will be DIRECTLY applied to the balance of one outstanding contract in a case of your choice (asylum, unaccompanied minor, domestic abuse survivor, etc.) each month and they will be informed that an anonymous donor has helped them out. We will send you a redacted receipt which shows their billing history and how your payment has reduced the balance.

If you are willing to commit at this level, I will personally check in with you to provide a choice between a few possible cases of financially-challenged clients with a strong chance of success. Want to be sure your donation goes to an asylum seeker? A family in deportation proceedings? A domestic abuse survivor seeking a visa? A lawful permanent resident facing deportation for a minor criminal convictions? A minor child facing immigration court alone? We work with all of these, and many more. You are welcome to direct payment to one case, or request that it be spread out among several of one type. 

Like most people doing this work, we are a private law office (there is generally no non-profit money for deportation defense) and as a matter of principle we do not charge most clients market rates. (In a way, giving directly toward a client's balance in an office like ours is a more direct benefit than giving to a legal services non-profit, as you will have the satisfaction of knowing that every dollar you give is going directly to sponsor a particular case, with nothing being used for overhead, marketing, administration, etc.)

We obviously can't share names or identifying details, but I will provide a general summary of the case and let you know about the outcome once it has concluded.

You'll also be guaranteed (at your option) one scheduled phone call of up to 45 mins/month to ask questions and/or discuss anything I've written about, consult on a complex immigration law question (or dating advice, PhD thesis review, whatever really--it's your hour!), hear my war stories from immigration court, or really anything else at all I can help out with. (I'm willing to roll over unused time into subsequent months, within reason.) 

To be clear: YOUR ENTIRE DONATION WILL BE APPLIED DIRECTLY 100% TO EXISTING BELOW-MARKET CLIENT AGREEMENTS AND NOTHING ELSE. We will send you a redacted copy of the contract that you are paying toward together with a billing history from our system reflecting your donation. The client will be informed that an anonymous donor has helped them out.

Same as above, but all of the money that you are committing will go toward paying the entire balance in a case of your choice--effectively allowing you, and you alone, to sponsor one deserving person's fight against deportation. Once the balance has been paid, we will agree on another case to apply your donations to and continue to do so sequentially for as long as you are willing to give.

At this level, you will also be guaranteed up to 60 minutes scheduled with me on the phone (or a personal meeting if you happen to live in the Boston area) with me each month to discuss the case(s) you are funding, immigration law news/analysis, and anything else at all you want to talk about.

To be clear: YOUR ENTIRE DONATION WILL BE APPLIED DIRECTLY 100% TO EXISTING BELOW-MARKET CLIENT AGREEMENTS AND NOTHING ELSE. We will send you a redacted copy of the contract that you are paying toward together with a billing history from our system reflecting your donation. The client will be informed that an anonymous donor has helped them out.