CILAN — California Immigration Legal Access Network
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The CILAN attorney network

Your expertise.
A community’s support.
A clearer path.

Bring your practice into a workspace built around legal access. Review opportunities, submit a client’s need, and coordinate the support behind each next step.

Community access is free. Partner workflows are available to explore with fictional cases.

Two ways to participate

Start with community.
Grow into partnership.

Submit a matter for preliminary review at no cost. The proposed Partner tier adds representation proposals, client fundraising requests, and a full case-coordination workspace.

COMMUNITY

Be part of the network.

Free community participation

Connect your practice to a community focused on immigration legal access.

  • Create a professional profile for CILAN verification
  • Review anonymous case opportunities
  • Submit your existing client’s case for preliminary review
  • Access professional resources and community information
  • Keep access to records for your existing authorized matters
ATTORNEY PARTNER

Coordinate a fuller path.

Annual membership

Proposed paid tier. Pricing and participation terms will be published before enrollment opens.

  • All Community features
  • Submit private, itemized representation and funding proposals
  • Request fundraising review for your represented clients
  • Accept an engagement after CILAN review and client selection
  • Manage your matters, budgets, progress, and private updates
  • Coordinate assigned worksheets, requested documents, and client next steps

Membership fees and voluntary gifts are separate. Membership does not guarantee cases, funding, representation, or government-system access. No membership payment is being collected. The live partner program requires finalized participation terms and a reviewed referral structure.

The path from interest to engagement

Careful decisions at every step.

01

Review a limited summary

Browse approved opportunities without seeing private intake, case identifiers, or another attorney’s client records.

02

Submit a private proposal

Describe the work and itemize your fees and expenses. CILAN reviews the proposed assistance and scope.

03

Confirm the engagement

The client selects counsel. The attorney confirms conflict checks and the separate engagement agreement.

04

Keep the matter connected

Track authorized matters, reviewed funding needs, milestones, and the source of each private case update.

Official sources. Clear status.

Keep agency updates in context.

The portal identifies where an update came from and when it was recorded. It never treats a funding milestone as an agency decision.

USCIS

API available · not connected

USCIS offers an official Case Status API. CILAN must complete developer setup, sandbox testing, and USCIS approval before connecting real cases. Automatic refresh is not active.

Official developer platform

EOIR

Official lookup · manual updates

Open the official court-information tools and record an update you have checked. ACIS has limited information; an issued court notice remains the authoritative record. No direct API is connected.

EOIR case information

ICE

Official contacts · manual updates

Use ICE’s field-office directory and your authorized case contacts. Record the source and date of confirmed communications in the private case timeline. No automated ICE feed is connected.

ICE field offices

Agency activity and CILAN funding activity are separate records. Case updates are private to authorized participants. Opening an official link does not send case identifiers from CILAN.

Help turn access into a next step.

Explore the free and Partner experiences, including private submissions, proposals, and a sample matter timeline.