Hello, my name is Otis Landerholm, I'm an immigration lawyer, I fight for the rights of immigrants who are looking to stay in the United States. Today I'm going to be talking about a new service that my office is providing and the nasty question that needs to be asked especially if you're undocumented or if you've overstayed a visa is what would you do if you were detained by ice, okay. What would you do if ice, Immigration Customs Enforcement knocks on your door at two in the morning detains you, says that they're not going to release you on bond and maybe ships you to Arizona or New Mexico or Texas or Tacoma, okay. What would you do who would watch your kids, who would take care of your financial situation, who do you want to be paying your bond, who do you want to be your lawyer, who do you want to fight for you to stay here, okay. These are questions that it is way better and way easier to think about and to prepare for now then to wait until the emergency happens and then scramble and figure out what you're gonna do, okay. This is something that my office helps our clients prepare for, in the event that happens. The other thing is, in my view, if you're undocumented or if you overstayed a visa, you're going to need an immigration lawyer eventually weather for good or for bad. Either bad news happens in ice comes and knocks on your door or good news happens and the law changes or you marry a US citizen or something else were to happen in your life that would make you eligible for a visa or a green card or some other form of immigration status, okay.

The point is we've got a service and this service is called our preparation notebook or in Spanish is cuaderno preparación, okay. And what this notebook allows us to do is to get all the information that we would need on your case and to actually sign the form G28 which is a form that lawyers used to submit to the government in the case of an emergency to say that you are represented and to have all the information we would need in order to help prepare you for either an emergency or for a change in the law and for some other -- you know -- for some other thing that might happen to you in the future, okay. So it's good to be prepared it's good to keep the document, it's good to keep everything organized. We help you do that and we will fight for your case, all right. If you have questions about this service please give me a call I'd love to go through it in more detail, thanks.

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