VisaNow.AI does not provide legal representation. The platform connects you with experienced immigration attorneys who evaluate your case, advise on strategy, and manage your filing independently.
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VisaNow.AI runs the document prep. An independent immigration attorney runs the legal side. Two separate engagements, two separate bills. You sign a retainer with the attorney directly, and that retainer is what creates the attorney-client relationship. We are nowhere in that chain.
Founders ask why we structure it this way. The honest answer: legal advice on a federal petition is regulated work, and unauthorized practice of law is how immigration consultancies end up shut down. Keeping the legal layer with a licensed attorney protects you and keeps us focused on what we do well, which is moving documents.
The attorney decides the legal strategy. Which visa category. How to frame the proposed endeavor for NIW. Whether to push back on a Request for Evidence or just respond. Whether your O-1 evidence is strong enough to file or needs another quarter of citation building first. These are billable judgment calls and they belong to a licensed lawyer.
VisaNow.AI handles everything below that line. Eligibility scoring against the regulatory criteria. Document checklist generation. Reference letter templates and version control. Evidence indexing for the petition exhibit list. Timeline tracking. Reminder logic when an attorney is waiting on a missing file from you. The boring infrastructure that usually eats fifteen attorney hours per case.
One specific thing we will not do: tell you which visa to apply for. If you ask us O-1 or EB-1A, the answer is "schedule a consult." That answer is not us being cute. Picking the visa category is legal advice and we are not allowed to give it.
Series B engineering manager, EB-1A. Came in with 14 first-author publications, 200 plus citations, two patents, and a press hit in TechCrunch from a previous startup. On paper he looked clean. On the attorney call it took twenty minutes to spot the actual weak point: his "leading role" criterion rested on a 2019 title at a company that no longer existed and whose distinguished reputation was hard to document. The attorney told him to drop that criterion and use his current open-source maintainer role instead. We rebuilt the evidence packet around the substitution in nine days. Filed in week six. Approved without an RFE.
Postdoc researcher, EB-2 NIW. Came in three weeks after January 15, 2025 (the PA-2025-03 effective date). Original endeavor was framed as "advancing computational biology research." The attorney's first reaction was that this framing would not survive the new national-importance prong because it was too generic and could be read as describing the entire field. We worked with the client over two weeks to narrow the endeavor to a specific protein-folding bottleneck affecting domestic vaccine manufacturing. Same person, same publications, sharper framing. Approved on first review nine months later.
Both examples are amalgamated from real cases. Names, employers, and identifying details are removed.
VisaNow.AI charges a flat platform fee for document preparation, indexed by visa category. No percentage of attorney fees, no kickback from the attorney to us, no marketing fee paid the other direction. The independent immigration bar is small and unkind to platforms that try to monetize the attorney relationship, and we have no intention of testing those boundaries.
Attorney fees are set by each attorney. For O-1, expect $3,000 to $10,000 depending on firm and complexity. For EB-1A self-petition, $5,000 to $12,000. For EB-2 NIW self-petition, $4,500 to $8,500. Premium processing ($2,965 as of March 2026) and government filing fees are paid separately to USCIS.
You will see both bills. Ours arrives when you start a workspace. The attorney's arrives when you sign the retainer. Neither party hides the other's invoice.
Free 30-minute consult. The attorney decides if your case is worth filing. We are not in the room and we do not see the recording.
Schedule attorney consultVisaNow.AI is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Attorneys in the partner network are independent legal professionals who maintain their own licenses, set their own fees, and assume full professional responsibility for the cases they accept. The attorney-client relationship is formed directly between the client and the attorney, not with VisaNow.AI. Visa approval is determined solely by USCIS. Nothing on this page constitutes legal counsel.