Court Date Reminder.
An app idea for immigration law firms.
Automated text and email reminders to clients about immigration court hearings and the documents they must bring.
What the search found
- Who pays
- Immigration law firms and nonprofit legal aid groups
- The problem
- People post about missing ICE appointments and court dates and then begging for help. One comment warns that a missed hearing means removal in absentia and it affects the ability to ever return.
- The gap
- The EOIR hotline at 1-800-898-7180 and the court website only let a person check a date by calling or looking it up. Guides tell people to set their own phone reminders and check every week. No product in the results pushes reminders to the client on the firm's behalf.
- Already out there
- EOIR automated case information line justice.gov
A phone system that reads out hearing date, time and location. It is pull only, the client has to call, and it does not remind anyone.
- ASAP Together first hearing guide asaptogether.org
Tells people to check the hearing date every week by phone or website because dates get rescheduled without notice. It is advice, not a reminder tool.
- EOIR automated case information line justice.gov
- People asking for it
- Missed ICE appointment reddit.com
Person describes a relative who missed an ICE appointment and then had a court hearing scheduled.
- Do not miss a hearing reddit.com
Comment says do not miss a hearing ever, the judge will order removal in absentia and it affects the ability to ever return.
- Missed the court date, begging for help reddit.com
Person posts that they missed the court date and is asking for help.
- Missed ICE appointment reddit.com
- The big assumption
- Firms will hand over client phone numbers and let a third party message their clients.
- Test it this week
- Offer to send reminders by hand for one legal aid group for two weeks using a spreadsheet and a phone, and count how many no-shows are avoided.
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