aiylum is software. Law firms use it to run immigration cases. We are not a law firm, we do not represent anybody, and nothing produced by this product is legal advice.
What that means if you are a client
If you are reading this because your lawyer uses aiylum, your lawyer is your lawyer. We are the people who make the software they keep your file in. We have no view on your case, we do not decide anything about it, and we cannot answer questions about it. Ask your legal team.
Using this software does not create a relationship between you and us of any kind that would make us responsible for your case.
What the product does
It organises work. It holds the documents on a matter, tracks the dates a case runs on, records what was filed and when, and carries messages between a firm and its clients. It encodes public immigration law as conditions so a firm can see which requirements apply to a client's situation, and it can retrieve passages from published sources so somebody can read them.
What it does not do
It does not decide whether somebody qualifies for anything. It produces no recommendation to take, decline or settle a matter, and the setting that would allow a machine to give advice is fixed at "never" in the code rather than being a default somebody can raise.
Where the product suggests something – a document that is probably needed, a deadline that probably applies – an attorney decides. The suggestion is shown with what it was derived from so it can be checked.
The library is not advice either
The product can show you the text of a statute, a regulation or a policy manual and say where it came from. That is a reading aid. The law changes, the text on a page is not the whole of the law, and whether any of it applies to a particular person is exactly the judgement a lawyer is for.
Answers the assistant gives are drawn from published sources and cite them. An answer that cites nothing is an answer nothing supports, and the product says so rather than filling the gap.
If you do not have a lawyer
We cannot be one. Immigration legal aid organisations exist in most places and many take cases at no cost. A bar association referral line is a reasonable starting point.
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*This page describes how the product is built and is written by the people who built it. It has not been reviewed by outside counsel.*