Immigration case management

Build your case workflow once.Every client walks it.

Most case management software stores your files. Lanternfile holds the process — the stages a matter moves through, what you ask the client for at each one, and the guidance that keeps the answer usable the first time.

Onboarding a small number of firms at a time.

  1. ✓Consultation & retainer3 blocks
  2. 2Documents & evidence12 blocks
  3. 3Petition preparation4 blocks
  4. 4Filed · awaiting decision2 blocks

Documents & evidence

Beneficiary's passportDocument · Required
Relationship evidenceDocument · Required
Before you travelInstruction
Drag a block here, or add one from the library

Four things that change how a matter runs

Clients read it in their own language

Checklists, stage names and the notes you write back render in English, Spanish and Russian. One requirement, three clients, no translation email.

ENBeneficiary's birth certificateAwaiting upload
ESActa de nacimiento del beneficiarioPendiente de subir
RUСвидетельство о рожденииОжидает загрузки

Deadlines that schedule themselves

Attach a due date to a step once. Every matter reaching that stage gets it.

Medical exam (I-693)+14d
when the case enters this stage
Medical exam (I-693)Due 25 Sep

Internal steps stay internal

Conflict checks, docketing, pre-filing review. Invisible in the portal and unreachable by direct link.

Signed engagement letterClient sees this
Conflict check completedInternal

Your process, encoded once

Compose the stages a matter moves through and what you ask for at each. Reuse it on every case instead of rebuilding a checklist from memory — and change it in one place when your practice does.

Document requestsSmart formsWritten guidanceReference attachmentsStep dependenciesPathway variants

You do not start from an empty page

Install a starter workflow — family-based, naturalization, H-1B, E-2 or TN — and edit it into your own. Each is shaped around a different way of running a matter. The block library carries the detail that usually only arrives after a document has been rejected once.

Built for confidential work

Every firm’s data is scoped to that firm. Client documents are served only to the client they belong to and the firm acting for them, checked on every request rather than hidden in the interface. Internal steps are invisible to clients by design.

Request access

Lanternfile is invite-only. We take on a few firms at a time so each one gets its workflows built properly rather than being handed a login and left to it.

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