Summary

This repository offers a suite of Claude Code skills designed to automate and structure the creation of immigration petitions (O-1A, EB-1A, EB-2 NIW) for immigration attorneys and self-petitioning candidates. It aims to significantly reduce the time spent on document organization, evidence indexing, drafting, and auditing, ensuring claims are backed by verifiable evidence. The project targets legal professionals seeking efficiency and individuals navigating self-petition processes who need to understand their case strength and organize evidence.

How It Works

The system leverages specialized Claude Code skills, including document-summary-arrangement for ingesting, triaging, summarizing, and indexing over 100 client documents by evidentiary criterion. Specialized drafting skills (o1-petition-narrative, eb1a-petition-narrative, niw-petition-narrative) generate petition support letters, addressing specific legal frameworks (Kazarian for O-1A/EB-1A, Dhanasar for NIW) criterion-by-criterion. A knowledge/ directory, containing best practices distilled from USCIS adjudication patterns and case law, informs these drafting processes. Additional skills like expert-letter-drafter and petition-audit automate the creation of recommendation letters and the verification of factual claims against source documents, respectively, ensuring all petition arguments are evidence-backed.

Quick Start & Requirements

• Installation: Clone the repository.
• Dependencies: Execute ./document-summary-arrangement/scripts/setup.sh to install necessary tools, including poppler for PDF processing.
• Usage: Initiate skills via command line (e.g., /document-summary-arrangement, /o1-petition-narrative).
• Documentation: Detailed usage instructions for attorneys and self-petitioners are provided within the README.

Highlighted Details

• Automated organization and indexing of client documents by evidentiary criterion.
• Drafts O-1A/EB-1A petitions using specific frameworks (Kazarian) and EB-2 NIW petitions using the Dhanasar three-prong framework.
• Generates evidence-backed drafts with citations to source documents and web URLs.
• Includes a petition-audit skill to verify factual claims, flag legal errors, and assess internal consistency.
• Drafts expert/recommendation letters, ensuring criteria assignment and avoiding overlap.

Maintenance & Community

The README does not specify contributors, sponsorships, or community channels. Contributions are encouraged by adding anonymized best practices to the knowledge/ directory, with strict guidelines against committing client-identifying details.

Licensing & Compatibility

• License: MIT License.
• Compatibility: The MIT license generally permits commercial use and integration into closed-source projects, provided attribution is maintained.

Limitations & Caveats

This tool is explicitly stated as not providing legal advice and is intended to produce drafts that require review, editing, and signing by a licensed immigration attorney. It is not a replacement for legal counsel, nor does it guarantee petition approval, as outcomes depend on case facts, evidence, and USCIS adjudication.