One call activates your emergency plan

If ICE detains you, make one call.

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Your family shouldn't have to find a lawyer during a crisis. Prepare now, so your family knows exactly what to do later. Have a plan in place for $25/month.

Your emergency profile, authorized contacts, and instructions are already on file. Call us from detention—or have someone notify us—and we will begin locating you, alert your emergency contacts, and connect them with an available detention-defense law firm based on where you are being held.

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Enrollment is subject to review, conflict clearance, acceptance by the firm, and a signed engagement agreement.

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Your family shouldn't have to find a lawyer during a crisis. Prepare now, so your family knows exactly what to do later. Have a plan in place for $25/month.
Why prepare

Give your family an organized place to begin

When someone is detained, family members are often left searching for an A-number, reconstructing immigration history, trying to determine where their loved one is being held, and looking for a lawyer who handles detained cases. Your membership puts essential information, authorized emergency contacts, and a defined activation plan in place before an emergency occurs.

We provide emergency preparedness and coordination nationwide. After you or an authorized contact reports a possible detention, we activate your file and use available information to identify where you are being held. We then help connect your authorized emergency contacts with an available law firm serving that area that can advise them about detention defense and the next steps.

We can also help prepare powers of attorney and other advance-planning documents under a separate engagement, so the people you designate have appropriate authority to manage specified financial and personal matters during your absence.

An illustrative example

How preparation can change the first hours and days after an ICE detention

Imagine that an enrolled client is detained following international travel or during an ICE check-in. Instead of asking the family to begin from scratch, the client already has an emergency profile, authorized contacts, and a defined activation process in place—potentially avoiding days or even weeks of preventable delay.

  1. Before

    The plan is prepared

    During onboarding, we gather the client’s A-number, essential immigration information, authorized emergency contacts, and other agreed information. If separately retained to do so, we can also prepare appropriate powers of attorney or advance-planning documents.

  2. Day 0

    ICE detains the client

    The client calls from the detention facility, or an authorized family member alerts us when the client does not return from the check-in. We activate the prepared file and begin the established response process.

  3. Activate

    The family has one informed point of contact

    We confirm the information already on file, communicate with the authorized emergency contacts, and begin checking available location information. The family does not have to reconstruct the client’s basic immigration information during the emergency.

  4. Locate

    The detention location is identified

    Once the client appears in ICE’s detainee locator system—or we receive reliable information regarding the client’s location—we ascertain the listed detention facility. The timing of this step depends on when location information becomes available.

  5. Connect

    We promptly connect the family with detention counsel

    Using the detention location and known case needs, we promptly connect the client and emergency contacts with a law firm available to advise regarding detained removal defense, including potential bond or habeas options.

  6. Next

    The family can make an informed decision

    The receiving firm explains its assessment, availability, proposed scope, and fees directly. If the client or family proceeds, that firm enters a separate engagement and handles the detained matter.

Who it is for

Readiness for different immigration situations

Lawful permanent residents and visa holders

For green-card holders and people traveling with visas who are concerned about international travel, airport reentry, prior arrests, an unusual entry record, or the possibility of receiving a Notice to Appear.

The retainer does not replace individualized advice about whether you should travel.

People attending ICE check-ins

For people with ICE or ERO reporting appointments who want their family to have organized information and an activation plan if they do not return as expected.

This service does not advise anyone to miss a required appointment or violate an order.

Immigrants without lawful status

For people and families who want emergency contacts, essential information, and a defined process organized before a possible enforcement encounter.

Readiness options

Choose the level of support that fits your situation

Every tier includes the core detention-activation response described below. The separate onboarding fee covers the intake and initial emergency-file setup.

Plan feature Prepared $25/month $199 onboarding Enroll now Most popular for international travelers Travel Ready $49/month $249 onboarding Enroll now Priority Readiness $199/month $349 onboarding Enroll now
Authorized emergency contacts123
Registered international trips per yearUp to 4Up to 8
Availability9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday–Friday9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday–Friday, plus registered travel windows24/7 availability
Prepared emergency profile and activation channelIncludedIncludedIncluded
Detention-location identificationIncludedIncludedIncluded
Prompt connection with available detention counselIncludedIncludedIncluded
Financial power of attorney for one designated emergency contactIncludedAuthorizes management of specified financial matters; acceptance is subject to the financial institution’s requirements.
Secure storage for sensitive original documentsIncludedPassports, property titles, original certificates, and similar documents can be shipped or made available according to the client’s verified instructions while detained.

Prepared

$25/month

$199 onboarding

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Emergency contacts
1
Registered trips
Not included
Availability
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday–Friday
  • Prepared emergency profile and activation channel
  • Detention-location identification
  • Prompt connection with available detention counsel

Priority Readiness

$199/month

$349 onboarding

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Emergency contacts
3
Registered trips
Up to 8 per year
Availability
24/7 availability
  • Prepared emergency profile and activation channel
  • Detention-location identification
  • Prompt connection with available detention counsel
  • Financial power of attorney for one designated emergency contact
  • Secure storage for sensitive original documents

All tiers include detention-location identification once the client appears in ICE’s detainee locator system or we receive information regarding the client’s location. As soon as we identify the detention location, we will promptly connect the client and the client’s emergency contacts with a law firm that is available to advise regarding detention defense, including bond or habeas petitions. Any detained-case representation is provided under a separate agreement with the receiving firm, which charges its fees directly.

When the plan is activated

Being prepared starts with you. Take steps now to reduce avoidable delays after detention and help your family manage essential affairs while you are unavailable.

  1. 1

    You or your family calls us

    You call from an ICE detention facility, or an authorized emergency contact tells us that you may have been detained.

  2. 2

    We activate your prepared file

    We use the information and authorizations collected during onboarding, including your A-number and emergency contacts.

  3. 3

    We identify the detention location

    Once your record appears in ICE’s detainee locator system, we identify the listed facility and detention location.

  4. 4

    We identify the right type of counsel

    We use the detention location and known case needs to identify one or more qualified firms focusing on detained removal defense, bond, and habeas petitions.

  5. 5

    We make the direct connection

    We connect your authorized emergency contacts with the selected firm or firms, provide activation instructions, and securely transmit the relevant portions of your file that you authorized us to share. For Priority Readiness members, we can also ship stored original documents to an authorized emergency contact upon a verified request.

  6. 6

    The receiving firm advises you on the next steps

    The receiving firm completes its conflict and engagement process directly with the client or authorized emergency contacts. The firm then meets with them to discuss the detention matter and appropriate options, which may include removal defense, bond, or habeas petitions.

If detention is reported

We identify the detention location, then connect your family with the right team

We activate the client’s prepared emergency file and monitor the ICE detainee locator. Once the client’s record appears, we identify the listed detention location and use that location and the known case needs to select one or more qualified designated firms for the matter.

We then make a direct, organized connection between the client’s authorized emergency contacts and the selected detention firm. Timing depends on when the government system publishes the client’s record.

Independent detention counsel

Authorized contacts will immediately be connected with one or more designated firms focusing on detained removal defense, immigration bond matters, and immigration-related habeas corpus petitions.

Each firm decides independently whether to accept the matter, conducts its own conflict check, signs its own agreement, and charges the client directly. The client remains free to choose another lawyer.

Request information

Ask about the readiness retainer

Tell us how to reach you. Please do not include an A-number, documents, or details about your immigration history here.

Submitting this form does not create an attorney-client relationship. Enrollment requires firm acceptance, conflict clearance, and a signed engagement agreement.

How should we contact you?

Put the relationship and emergency plan in place before you need them

Enroll in the Prepared plan through secure Stripe checkout.

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