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The Las Vegas Mental Health and TMS Center offers clinical evaluations to support immigration legal cases, providing essential evidence.

Immigration Evaluations

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What Is an Immigration Evaluation?

Clinical evaluation conducted for an immigration legal case to provide evidence for the case.

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The evaluation is very often imperative in the case & decides:

  • Whether someone is deported to life-threatening circumstances

  • Whether a family is split apart

 

Meet with client twice

  • Approx 1 to 1.5 hrs each time

  • Online or in-person

 

Written assessment

  • Very thorough, between 15-25 pages depending on the type of evaluation

  • Timeframe around 2 or 3 weeks

  • If there is a need for an expedited evaluation an additional fee for a rush service will be assessed depending on how fast the turnaround is.

 

Therapist’s fee

  • $1200

 

Provide the following assessments:

  • Asylum Cases: Explaining psychological reasons why a client missed the one-year filing deadline;
    and detailing how PTSD symptoms provide evidence of the persecution they suffered.

  • Extreme Hardship Cases: Identifying unique factors contributing to a client’s psychological distress such as: illness; disability; professional, financial, or academic hardship; or adverse home-country conditions that would affect the petitioner or their family members.

  • VAWA Cases: Detailing the client’s psychological symptoms which are common for domestic violence victims; assessing credibility; and where useful, explaining uncommon phenomena such as ways in which men are abused by female partners.

  • T-Visa and U-Visa Cases: Detailing the client’s psychological symptoms which are common for human trafficking, abduction, extortion; attempted murder, and more; assessing credibility; and describing how immigrant has suffered substantial mental or physical abuse.

Value & Impact

Purpose of the Visas

Purpose of T-Visa

T-Visa offer protection to victims and strengthen the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute human trafficking.

 

  • Similar to the purpose of U Visa but focuses solely on human trafficking.

  • Traffickers often take advantage of vulnerable individuals, including those lacking lawful immigration status.


Purpose of U-Visa

  • Provide a detailed assessment for U Visa immigration case

  • Describe how immigrant has suffered substantial mental or physical abuse

  • Describe how immigrant has been helpful (or intends to be helpful) to law enforcement or govt. officials in the investigation/prosecution of criminal activity

  • The Psychological evaluation is critically important to help the lawyer establish the level of “substantial mental abuse.”Qualifying Crimes for U-Visa:

  • Trafficking (T-Visa)

  • Abduction

  • Blackmail

  • Domestic Violence (Typically a VAWA)

  • Extortion

  • False Imprisonment

  • Female Genital Mutilation

  • Felonious Assault

  • Fraud in Foreign Labor Contracting

  • Incest

  • Murder

  • Obstruction of Justice

  • Perjury

  • Prostitution

  • Sexual Assault

  • Slave Trade

  • Stalking

  • Torture

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