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    • Rockwell “Rock” Hinkle, Legal Assistant
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    • Gabriela Veroes Legal Assistant
    • Maryangel Aguilera Legal Assistant
    • Fidel Villegas, Legal Assistant
    • Gabriel Chávez, Legal Assistant
    • Erwin Noguera, Legal Assistant
  • US Citizenship
    • Form N-648 Medical Disability Exception
    • Age-Based English Waivers
    • N-600 vs Passport for Citizenship Proof
    • INA 320 — Automatic Citizenship
    • Stepchild Adoption and Citizenship
    • Citizenship through Adoption
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    • Citizenship through Military
    • Derivative US Citizenship
    • N-600K — Citizenship Through a Grandparent
    • INA 301 & 309 — Citizenship at Birth Abroad
  • Green Cards
    • I-130 Separate Petitions for LPRs
    • Income Requirements with Stepchildren
    • AOS with 10-Year Bar (212(d)(3))
    • I-751 Waiver After Divorce
    • Refugee Travel Document Expired
    • Protecting Asylum / SIJS Benefits
    • Asylee Adjustment: INA 209 vs 245
    • NVC Document Roadblocks
    • 221(g) Refusal Explained
    • F-2B Election (Parent Naturalizes)
    • VAWA for Cuban Adjustment Act Derivatives
    • Lying on Form I-485
    • Adjustment of Status: Getting Your Green Card Without Leaving the United States
    • Asylee Green Card
    • Conditional Green Card Renewal
    • Employment Based Green Card
    • I-140 Ability to Pay
    • Consular Processing
    • Family Based Green Card
    • Green Card for Religious Worker
    • Green Card through Marriage
    • Green Card through Refugee or Asylee Status
    • Parole in Place for Military Families:How It Works, Who Qualifies, and What It Actually Does
    • Green Card Renewal: Complete I-90 Guide | Immigration Law of Montana
    • Humanitarian Green Card
    • Refugee Green Card
    • Sheepherder Green Card
    • Marrying an Illegal Immigrant
    • For American Indians Born in Canada
    • Special Immigrant Visa
    • When Your LPR Spouse Dies
    • When Your USC Spouse Dies
    • Derivative Beneficiaries When Petitioners Die
  • Structuring Immigration Information on a Website
    • Lying on Immigration Forms
    • PERM: Education + Experience
    • The EB-4 Visa Problem
    • Rights of Filipino Teachers and Workers
    • Canadian Immigration Pathways
    • Immigration for Employers
    • EB-5 Investor Visa Guide | Immigration Law of Montana
    • Immigration for Farmers and Ranchers
    • Immigration for Religious Organizations
    • Farm Worker Green Cards
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    • J-1 Exchange Visitor Visa
      • J-1 Intern & Trainee Year
      • J-1 Summer Work Travel
      • J-1 Au Pair Program
      • J-1 Two-Year Home-Residency Rule
      • J-1 Waivers
      • J-1 Advisory Opinion
      • After Your J-1 Year
      • J-1 or F-1 for Married Students
    • B-1 for Religious Work
    • Performer Visa Requirements
    • Options After Parole Termination
    • Asylum: Complete Application Guide
    • Asylum for Visa Waiver Program Entrants
    • F-1 & OPT
      • STEM OPT Extension Guide
      • OPT Guide for F-1 Students
      • B-1/B-2 to F-1 Change of Status
    • E-Series Visas
      • E-3 Job Ended: Your Options
      • E-2 Business Changes
      • E-2 Visa for Canadians
      • E-1 Visa for Treaty Traders
      • E-2 Visa for Treaty Investors
        • The E-2 Active-Investment Standard
      • E-3 Visa for Australian Professionals
    • H-1B Repayment Agreements
    • TN Catch-All Categories
    • The B-2 Visitor Visa: A Practical Guide
    • B-1 Visa for Business Visitors
    • H-1B Visa for Specialty Occupation Workers
      • H-1B Visa Lottery
      • H-1B for School Districts
      • H-1B Cap-Gap & OPT
    • H-2A Program
      • DUI and the H-2A Visa
      • Canadian Custom Combine Crews (H-2A)
      • H-2A Mobile Housing
      • H-2A Workers Staying Longer
      • Becoming an H-2A Labor Contractor
      • H-2A Seasonality Requirements
    • H-2B Visa Guide: Cap, Lottery, and Temporary Need
    • H-3 Visa for Trainees and Special Education Visitors
    • K-1 Visa
      • K-1 and Expedited Removal
      • K-1 Meeting Waiver
      • K-1 with Criminal Record
    • K-3 Spouse Visa
    • O-1 Visa for Artists, Scientists, Educators, Businesspeople and Athletes
    • P-3 Visa: A Guide to Culturally Unique Programs
    • R-1 Visa for Religious Workers
    • R-1 Five-Year Limit: Recapturing Time
    • TN Visa: Work Authorization Under USMCA
    • U Visa for Crime Victims: What It Takes and What to Expect
    • Change of Nonimmigrant Status
    • Form I-539: Extension and Change of Nonimmigrant Status
    • Process for US Visa Application Through Admission and Stay
    • Entry into United States
    • I-94 Admission Record: What Controls Your Stay
    • Volunteer Visa USA
    • Humanitarian Parole: Programs, Termination & Options
    • Leaving the United States
  • Immigration Services
    • Premium Processing Eligibility
    • How to Withdraw a Pending USCIS Application
    • RFE Response Help in Montana: When Immigration Requests Can Be Fixed (And When They Can’t)
    • Apostille Services
    • Document Translation Services
    • Picked Up by ICE in Montana: What to Do, Where They Will Be Held, and What Comes Next
    • Why A Strategy Consultation
  • Removal Defense
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    • Picked Up by ICE in Montana
    • Detention & Bond Hearings
    • Get Your Immigration Court Records
    • Criminal Records & Immigration Status
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      • Non-LPR Cancellation
      • VAWA Cancellation
      • BIA Ends Easy LPR Cancellation
    • Withholding of Removal
    • Convention Against Torture (CAT)
    • Adjustment of Status in Immigration Court
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    • Appeals & Motions
    • Voluntary Departure & CBP Home
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    • Denied Entry to the USA
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About Us

Immigration Law of Montana, P.C. (ILM) is a full-service law firm dedicated to solving clients’ problems. We mostly help people in the United States from Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming. We also help a lot of Canadians from our adjacent provinces Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan. From A to Z, well not quite, from Asylum to Waivers and everything in between, like Citizenship, and Green Cards, we can help you. With 28+ years of experience, we provide comprehensive immigration services including Immigration Court representation for clients facing removal proceedings.

Our Personnel

Christopher Flann founded Immigration Law of Montana, P.C. in 2001. At the beginning he worked on his own. Due to our clients appreciating our services, Immigration Law of Montana, P.C. grew. Three legal assistants, Collette Layton, Taryn Riojas and Rockwell Hinkle now assist Christopher. ILM also employs a full-time intake person who answers your phone calls and schedules consultations. We also have a full-time business manager who handles our finances.

Our Location

We are an unconventional law office. Rather than practice law in the city, our owner prefers to be in the country. We therefore run the law office out of a very large house located by Crooked Creek in Shepherd, Montana. If you come by, maybe you will hear our turkey gobble or see the emu patrolling the fence lines. Our goats have all gone to go to heaven. But our fields are full of wildlife like pheasants and deer.

How We Work

Perhaps these days the phrase paperless office is a cliché. Nevertheless, we strive to make the bureaucracy of immigration with all its forms and documents manageable to you the clients through using technology. We process most of the cases for benefits from the USCIS using a third-party software system, LawLogix. This system, a kind of online database accessible through the Internet, enables us to help your relatives outside of the United States efficiently and quickly.

Our Reviews

Over the years, we’ve paid a lot of attention to helping our clients succeed in their immigration goals. Happy clients have rewarded us by referring their friends. We have also started memorializing some of that customer satisfaction on our reviews and testimonials page. Please visit it if you have any concerns about hiring us to help you.

Our Scholarship Program

Montana might not be the center of the immigration debate in the United States today, but ILM recently started a program to better help students thoughtfully discuss the immigration issue. We recently started a scholarship program for high school, college, and university students. We have a local, state, and national scholarship. If you’re interested, please apply.

Our Montana Style

We like to think that we help clients solve immigration problems, including some very complex ones, with a friendly Montana style touch. If this sounds like it would suit your needs, please contact us.

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Our Location

We are located about 20 minutes NE of Billings in a rural community:

Immigration Law of Montana, P.C.
8400 Clark Rd
Shepherd, MT 59079
406-373-9828

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