Immigration Status & Strategy Consultation

Every immigration matter begins with a comprehensive legal consultation. During this appointment, Attorney Hayden Colby will review your immigration history, discuss your legal options, identify potential challenges, and recommend a strategy tailored to your circumstances.

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Immigration Detention Matters Consultation

If you or a family member or friend has been detained by U.S. immigration authorities, immediate legal evaluation of the individual’s custody and immigration status may be important. Attorney Hayden Colby provides consultations focused on understanding detention status, available options, and potential strategies for bond, parole, removal defense, or other immigration relief.

Detention Case Consultation

Why We Start Here

Unlike firms that offer brief sales consultations, this appointment is a substantive legal consultation designed to help you understand your situation before making important decisions.

Whether you ultimately retain this office or not, you should leave with a clearer understanding of your immigration status, potential options, and the legal issues affecting your case.

✓ Review Your Immigration History

✓ Evaluate Legal Options

✓ Identify Potential Risks

✓ Discuss Next Steps

Why this Consultation is Unique

Before entering private practice, Mr. Colby served as an Assistant Chief Counsel with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), representing the Department of Homeland Security in immigration proceedings in Atlanta, Georgia and Houston, Texas.

That experience provides insight into how immigration cases are evaluated and litigated, allowing clients to begin with a realistic assessment of their legal options rather than speculation.

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Your Consultation May Include

Immigration Status

Current status

Prior entries

Visa history

Green card issues

Removal Proceedings

Notice to Appear

Bond eligibility

Immigration Court Process

Potential defenses

Immigration Benefits

Citizenship

Adjustment of status

Family petitions

Waivers

Strategic Planning

Available immigration options

Impact of Criminal History

Risks and Timing Considerations

Recommended next steps

How to Make the Most of Your Consultation

Before your appointment, you will receive a secure intake questionnaire and instructions for uploading relevant documents. Reviewing your information in advance allows us to spend more of your appointment discussing legal strategy rather than gathering basic facts.

Bring or provide, if available:

  • Passport

  • Green Card

  • Notice to Appear

  • Prior immigration decisions

  • Marriage certificate

  • Birth certificates

  • Criminal court records

  • Prior immigration filings

  • Correspondence from USCIS, DHS, ICE, or Immigration Court

After the Consultation

Step 1

Consultation

Step 2

Review Your Options

Step 3

Receive recommended next steps

Step 4

If appropriate, receive a representation agreement tailored to your specific immigration matter

Frequently Asked Questions:

Why is the consultation paid?

The consultation is a legal service—not a sales meeting. It includes legal analysis and advice based on the information you provide and the documents reviewed before the appointment.

How long is the consultation?

Most consultations will last approximately 60 minutes, although more complex matters may require additional time. Detention & Immigration Defense Consultations may last longer.

What happens during a detention consultation?

A detention consultation is an opportunity for Attorney Colby to evaluate the individual’s immigration situation and discuss potential options.

The consultation may include review of:

  • current detention status;

  • immigration history;

  • prior entries and applications;

  • immigration court status;

  • criminal history, if applicable;

  • possible bond, parole, defense strategies, or other immigration options.

The consultation is intended to provide an initial legal assessment and help you determine whether further representation may be appropriate.

What information should I provide prior to a detention consultation?

Helpful information includes:

  • detained person’s full name;

  • date of birth;

  • country of citizenship;

  • detention facility;

  • A-number (if available);

  • immigration court information;

  • prior immigration history;

  • criminal history information;

  • any upcoming hearings or deadlines.

Providing this information allows the attorney to prepare a more meaningful evaluation.

Does paying for a consultation mean you will represent me?

No. The consultation is limited in scope to assessing one’s immigration case legal status and allows both Attorney and Client to determine whether ongoing representation is appropriate. Representation before DHS, EOIR or some other tribunal begins only after both parties sign a separate written representation agreement.

Can family members attend?

Generally, yes. Family members are welcome to participate when appropriate, although Attorney's client is the individual seeking legal advice unless otherwise agreed. Family member participation for detained consultations is subject to the detention center procedures and approval.

When is the consultation fee paid?

Consultation fees are charged to reserve the attorney’s time and are due at the time the appointment is scheduled. Consultation fees are nonrefundable. Appointments cancelled or rescheduled with at least 24 hours’ notice may be rescheduled (subject to availability). No refunds will be issued.

What if I decide to hire your office after the consultation?

If, after the consultation, ongoing legal representation is appropriate and you decide to move forward, the Attorney will explain the recommended scope of services, outline the associated legal & related fees, and provide a written engagement agreement for your review and signature. The consultation fee will be applied toward the legal fees for the full representation if retained within 14 calendar days of the consultation. Representation begins only once both parties have signed a written representation agreement.

Scope of Consultation

The Immigration Status & Strategy Consultation is a limited legal service focused on evaluating your immigration matter and discussing available legal options. Ongoing representation in any immigration proceeding or application begins only after both Attorney and Client sign a separate written representation agreement.

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