Immigration is a specific area of law and expertise that requires a unique blend of care and legal proficiency. The challenges faced by the law firms can range from client communication, to efficient paralegal hunt to the actual petition drafting. This services industry is very seasonal in nature, and the work never consistent for petition filing. With that comes numerous business challenges: staffing, resourcing, IT infrastructure needs to be able to respond to what can be unpredictable workload. At Exigent we know that our clients are gearing up for the seasonal peak in Q1 2015. We have an accomplished team who can provide the resources you require at cost effective rates. Our immigration support teams can scale very quickly and are established as the leading provider of immigration service support in the USA and Canada.
To start a new project quickly, it is important to have essential resources at hand, for both long- and short-term projects. Hiring in-house employees on and off as required could be a tough decision for a small immigration firm, as it can invite major capital investment with a strenuous demand on staffing. Hiring for the project may take weeks to get the right resource on board and this discourages many law firms from taking that leap. A good outsourcing company provides right resources immediately and helps the attorneys to be more flexible to deliver their services seamlessly. By choosing an outsourcing model, small firms can match to the level of client service and save their overall cost in development, maintenance, hiring, and training.
Outsourcing has become the preferred method of getting the work done for a broad swath of international business services and the legal industry is no exception.
As an example, one of the law firms in Washington State works on family based immigration petitions involving highly complex petitions as well as simple case drafts. One of the simple case filing actions is DS-260 petitions. It is a low complex online filing petition for people who are immigrating to USA through the consular process, generally assigned to paralegal in the firm. The law firm has no particular software for this area of work. They provide a general questionnaire to the beneficiary and liaising work is more involved here.
When this work is outsourced to Exigent, our team analyses the questionnaire, requests additional or missing information from the client and completes the DS-260 online. The attorney has reviewed and filed it with the department. The advantage factor in this scenario is that the low complex work is done by experienced lawyers and the firm gains quality, time, cost and avoids temporary recruitment.
Exigent Group leverages multi-domain expertise and skills in Immigration platform to draft various petitions related to business, employment and family based matters. Our team of qualified and experienced lawyers, Immigration professionals, and six-sigma specialists delivers successful solutions to our clients in various areas of Immigration law across North America. We are serving our large to small law firm’s clients successfully in the areas of Petition filing, Docketing, Blogs, Newsletters, Research, Reporting and Process Mapping with high level secured technology and data protection with competitive prices apt for all the firms.
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Written by Vasanthi Shekar, Associate Vice President – Immigration at Exigent Group Limited.
