Accessibility is love in action.
If you are a group, organization or church body seeking a tangible way to “love your neighbor”, you can donate toward the cost of an immigration evaluation to help someone in need.
Immigration evaluations are clinical mental health evaluations utilized as evidence in immigration court cases.
These objective assessments help victims find healing and keep spouses, children and families together—honoring the deep connections that bring us strength and belonging.
Any contribution helps make these life-changing assessments accessible to those seeking safety, stability, and hope in your local community.
How are your donations used to help?
Read a few stories below that demonstrate the power of immigration evaluations.
A U.S. citizen father has a young son diagnosed with severe autism and epilepsy, requiring constant supervision, specialized therapies, and emergency care during seizures. The mother, who is the primary caregiver, faces deportation.
In Hardship Waiver cases, my clinical evaluation seeks to prove “extreme hardship” experienced by a U.S. citizen should their qualifying relative face deportation. I assess the social, cultural, financial, medical, and psychological factors experienced by the U.S. citizen, should their family face separation. Immigration Evaluations strengthen waiver applications and ultimately help keep families together. In more urgent cases, an evaluation may also used in Cancellation of Removal cases.
A Mexican woman marries a U.S. citizen, and over time, he starts to hit her—threatening to have her deported if she seeks help.
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) prevents someone’s immigration status from being used against them as a tool for control. It allows one to self-petition for legal status apart from their abusive U.S. citizen spouse. My report provides a compassionate and credible account of the client’s experiences to authorities—illustrating the impact of patterns of control, fear, and harm. The evaluation helps those experiencing abuse obtain independence, healing and legal protection.
A Ukrainian mother and her two children fled their home after their city was bombed during the ongoing war. They witnessed violence, lost family members, and spent months in shelters before reaching safety in the United States.
Casa Hogar walks alongside refugees and asylum seekers. In cases of Asylum, my report documents the psychological impact of torture, violence, or other inhumane treatment inflicted by an individual’s government or those the government cannot control. These evaluations help demonstrate the profound emotional and psychological consequences of violence and persecution—offering essential evidence for those seeking safety and protection in the United States.
Someone is frightened to leave the U.S. because their trafficker threatens harm.
In cases of U Visas and T Visas, immigration evaluations help victims of many organized crime. My assessment serves as evidence that extreme psychiatric harm has been brought upon individuals forced into labor or sex trafficking.
For many immigrants, one evaluation can be the bridge between uncertainty and safety - between being separated and staying together. These clinical evaluations often hold the weight of a family or individual’s story - the trauma endured, the strength carried and the hope for a better future.
At Casa Hogar, we believe no one should have to prove their pain to the courts alone. Yet for many, the cost of an immigration evaluation is an impossible barrier. Your donation helps us offer low-cost and pro bono evaluations to individuals and families seeking safety, stability and a sense of home.
Your donation goes directly toward covering evaluation fees, translation costs, and the time it takes to honor each person’s story with care and cultural understanding. Your contribution becomes part of someone’s path to belonging—a quiet but powerful act of advocacy.
Make a donation.
Every story deserves to be heard. Every family deserves to stay together. Every survivor deserves a chance to heal.
Give today and be someone’s bridge to safety, stability and home.
