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



The evaluation is very often imperative in the case & decides:
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Whether someone is deported to life-threatening circumstances
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Whether a family is split apart
Meet with client twice
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Approx 1 to 1.5 hrs each time
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Online or in-person
Written assessment
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Very thorough, between 15-25 pages depending on the type of evaluation
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Timeframe around 2 or 3 weeks
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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
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$1200
Provide the following assessments:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Similar to the purpose of U Visa but focuses solely on human trafficking.
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Traffickers often take advantage of vulnerable individuals, including those lacking lawful immigration status.
Purpose of U-Visa
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Provide a detailed assessment for U Visa immigration case
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Describe how immigrant has suffered substantial mental or physical abuse
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Describe how immigrant has been helpful (or intends to be helpful) to law enforcement or govt. officials in the investigation/prosecution of criminal activity
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The Psychological evaluation is critically important to help the lawyer establish the level of “substantial mental abuse.”Qualifying Crimes for U-Visa:
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Trafficking (T-Visa)
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Abduction
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Blackmail
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Domestic Violence (Typically a VAWA)
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Extortion
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False Imprisonment
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Female Genital Mutilation
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Felonious Assault
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Fraud in Foreign Labor Contracting
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Incest
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Murder
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Obstruction of Justice
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Perjury
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Prostitution
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Sexual Assault
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Slave Trade
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Stalking
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Torture

