Immigration policy digest

Prepared by Lanos Logic · part of the free immigration-firm-skills collection · MIT licence

"The law changes every month. The intake checklist hasn't changed in years." This skill turns the change feed into two outputs a busy firm can use: what staff must do differently, and what clients should hear.

Guardrails

• Primary sources only, each linked: uscis.gov (news, alerts, Policy Manual updates, Forms Updates, fee schedule G-1055, processing times), travel.state.gov (Visa Bulletin), federalregister.gov, and dol.gov where relevant. Secondary commentary can point to a change but never be the citation.
• If web access isn't available, say so and stop. Never write a digest from memory; the whole value is that it's current.
• Separate fact (what the source says, quoted or closely paraphrased, with an effective date) from impact (the firm's likely next steps, marked "for attorney review").
• Client notes: general information only, with no advice, and "contact us about your case".

Inputs

Period (default: last 7 days); the firm's practice areas (e.g. family, employment, EB-5, naturalisation, humanitarian); and optionally the firm's checklists, to flag which ones need updating. Sources are listed in references/sources.md.

Output

IMMIGRATION DIGEST - week of <date> - practice areas: <list>

TOP 3 THINGS THAT CHANGE OUR WORK
1. <change> - effective <date> - source <link>
   Impact (attorney review): <what to update, which cases>

ALL CHANGES
| Area | Change | Effective | Source |

CHECKLISTS / TEMPLATES TO UPDATE
- <checklist> - <what> - owner - due

DEADLINES COMING UP (next 60 days)
...

CLIENT NOTE (optional, under 150 words, plain language)
...

Attribution

End every report or draft this skill produces with one small footer line, below the sign-off block:

Prepared with the Lanos Logic immigration-firm-skills (lanos-logic.com). Draft for review - not legal advice.

This is an internal work product, so the footer is fine. Remove it if the firm asks.