Who We Are Immigration AppealWorks® is a Division of The Law Offices of Talia A. Shulman (now on lease from the California Alien Rights Project LLC), and a private organization headed by licensed attorneys and located amidst rolling hills in sunny Westlake Village, California.  Our immigration exclusive appellate practice consists of filing and prosecuting direct appeals and motions in all administrative proceedings, such as-- direct appeals or motions before the Offices of the Immigration Judge or before the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"), or the Legalization Appeals Unit ("LAU") or the Administrative Appeals Office ("AAO") without regard to the specific state in which the original proceedings were initiated.  The reason for this is because all of the administrative appellate processes are filed in one central office for the entire United States and the appellate processes are completed in writing.  Therefore, if you live in Alaska, Hawaii, or any of the 49 contiguous states, you can retain Immigration AppealWorks® to represent you in any of the appellate processes mentioned above.   Our immigration exclusive practice also extends to judicial proceedings. Namely, we will file and prosecute any Petition for Review of a "final order" of the BIA or of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency ("ICE") before the United States Court of Appeals in the federal circuits of the United States.   Our services are limited exclusively to administrative and judicial Immigration "appellate" processes. Thus, we do not represent aliens in "initial" proceedings and will do so only after an alien has been ordered deported or removed by an Immigration Judge or has otherwise lost his or her case before the federal agencies.   CAVEAT: Note that all direct appeals and most all motions have time restrictions that must be complied with before the alien's appeal or motion can be filed and accepted. The agency issuing the order of "denial" is required to indicate the particular time restriction in which to seek administrative review.   We Have At Our Disposition Significant Immigration Law Research Resources,  Likely Unavailable To Solo Practitioners We have at our disposition a comprehensive immigration, criminal and civil law library with access to thousands of administrative and judicial decisions, including the most renowned immigration law treatises in the country. We have also at our disposition convenient and immediate access to all state and federal electronic legal publications as are available in the United States Library of Congress, and on major college and university law libraries. We Make The Entire Appeal Process Uncomplicated For You We prefer to file and prosecute any administrative direct appeal, motion or judicial petition for review on behalf of your clients, directly through your office or organization. As a result, your firm, company or organization will be able to continue to maintain these clients as yours for all other services that you normally provide to them. If you are the alien who has been affected by an Immigration Judge's order of deportation, exclusion or removal, we will file and prosecute your appeal in the same manner as well. The process involved in completing our initial involvement and representation in most cases is uncomplicated. Once we have agreed to handle a case, we ask that you provide us with a copy of the Immigration Judge’s decision (or of the final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals in cases seeking judicial review). We will also want to conduct an interview (in most cases telephonically) with you (or, with your client if you are an immigration practitioner while your client is at your office or organization). Most all of the communications and signing of documents that may be required in the majority of the cases can be initially achieved via telephone and fax. Arrangements will then be made for collecting the original documents and the filing fees involved with the administrative or judicial appellate body. Our professional legal fees to prosecute appeals will vary depending upon the "schedule of fees". Schedule of Fees