Every week someone opens a call by asking what our case evaluation costs. The answer has not changed since the firm opened: nothing. There is no fee, no deposit, and no requirement to retain us afterward.
That surprises people, and it should. Plenty of firms run a fifteen-minute intake call, quote a retainer, and hold anything resembling analysis behind it. We think that gets the order wrong. You cannot sensibly choose an immigration attorney before you know whether your case is strong, what it is missing, and how much work stands between you and a filing. So we do that part first, and we do it for free. Our fees and pricing are published for the same reason.
What an evaluation actually contains
An evaluation is not a form letter confirming that your category exists. Every one we send back covers the same ground:
- An assessment of whether you meet the criteria for the category you selected — and whether a different category fits you better. You can see the full range in cases we handle.
- The specific strengths in your record that we would build the petition around.
- The gaps. Where the evidence is thin, where an officer is likely to push back, and what a Request for Evidence would probably target.
- The approach we would take if we filed it: the argument, the order we would build it in, and the documents we would need from you.
- A realistic view of timing and the risks we can see from what you have given us.
A person reads every one of these
This part matters more than the price. Hasan Legal builds and uses AI tools across the immigration practice, and we are candid about it — our own site says so. That is exactly why we are strict about where the line sits.
Software helps us read faster, organise evidence, and catch what a tired human eye misses at 9pm. It does not decide your case, and it does not write your evaluation.
An attorney reviews every submission and signs off on the assessment that goes back to you. If you have received an evaluation from us, you already know the difference: it references your actual employer, your actual publications, your actual timeline. A generated summary cannot tell you which of your three job offers makes the stronger national-interest argument. A lawyer who has filed hundreds of these can.
What "no obligation" means in practice
It means what it says. You are free to take the assessment to another firm, file on your own, or do nothing at all. Submitting the form does not create an attorney–client relationship with Hasan Legal PC — that only happens through a signed retainer agreement, and we will tell you plainly when we get to that point.
Your information stays confidential and is not released to third parties. It sits under our routine retention schedule and is destroyed after a set period.
The practical upshot: even the people who never hire us leave with a clear read on where they stand. We consider that a reasonable trade. A well-informed prospective client is easier to work with, and the ones who come back come back knowing why.