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Helena Migration Lawyer Dispatches Application to Work on US Movement Regulation
Shahid Haque, pioneer and leader of Boundary Crossing Law office and maker of the application Open Lines.

Megan Michelotti

Shahid Haque has committed his vocation to better the existence of individuals coming into the US. His latest undertaking, the application Open Lines, goes about as a TurboTax-style migration guide.

After leading a large number of migration interviews, Haque said, he fostered a framework for assessing cases and recognizing the significant variables that influence a client's choices.

"I needed to utilize my insight into migration regulation to help individuals all over the planet, so I endured quite a while composing an aide that offers a free, robotized evaluation of your movement choices," he said.

Since sending off on Nov. 3, the application had eight appraisals of five out of five stars as of Monday. It is right now accessible on iPhones, iPads, Macintoshes, and the web (https://openborders.Io/home).

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Haque is the leader of the Line Crossing Law office situated in Helena. He was attracted to movement regulation since his folks moved from Pakistan to America something like a long time back.

"I generally had an interest in migration because my folks were outsiders, and that sort of gave me a more prominent appreciation for what migrants go through when they come here to the US," expressed Haque. "... One more piece of it was the point at which I was in graduate school, I began working with a gathering that was assisting shelter searchers with coming into the US."

Haque went to the Chicago-Kent School of Regulation. After graduating, he worked with a huge firm, yet proceeded with his free work with refuge searchers. He in the long run progressed full-time into migration regulation.

At the point when Haque moved to Montana, he laid out the Boundary Crossing Law office in 2008. He likewise has filled in as a regulation teacher and has 17 years of involvement as a migration lawyer. He's addressed a great many clients in exploring the complex U.S. Migration framework.

Haque has worked free for the six Afghan exile families starting from the primary outcasts who showed up in January in Helena, said Valerie Hellermann, leader overseer of Hands on Worldwide, a not-for-profit that works intimately with the Afghan families.

"Movement is an extremely muddled issue," said Hellermann, adding that she believes Haque to be an exceptionally capable lawyer and she accepts Open Boundaries will function admirably.

Hellermann brought up that even though the movement cycle is long and troublesome, the light is unfolding toward the finish of the passage for a portion of Helena's Afghan evacuees.

"I'm so thankful for Shahid," said Hellermann. "He's been so brilliant, and as of now one of our displaced person families has their green card, which is so invigorating."

Haque re-energizes from his work by investing energy with his significant other, who he refers to his as "dearest companion." His better half fills in as his paralegal. They're bringing up five kids together.

A portion of Haque's most prominent vocation achievements have been prevailing upon 20 refuge bodies of evidence and winning collectively against LR-121 in the Montana High Court, a polling form measure that denied specific state-subsidized administrations to undocumented settlers that were presented in 2012.

It's Haque's huge bank of information on the U.S. Migration framework that he has attracted to create the application Open Boundaries. He's been dealing with the application starting around 2020. Haque brings up that he must be in one spot at one time, but this application can help a great many clients at the same time all over the planet.

Open Boundaries' logo in the application store.

"It has forever been a fantasy of mine to work on migration regulation in a special manner that really assists individuals with grasping it," said Haque. "You know, as a legal counselor, you're staying there assessing every one of these muddled truth designs and evaluating what the result ought to be, and I understood that it wasn't difficult to make a program that could do that… It's similar to making a virtual variant of myself where I'm saying all that I would if I was really conversing with the individual."

Haque expresses the application is a beginning stage and not really a DIY manual for the U.S. Migration framework. He suggests that individuals actually get a certified lawyer to assist them with exploring the cycle.

"My expectation is that families get together, use (Open Boundaries), enter all the data, and figure out what their choices are so in any event to continue all alone or on the other hand to enlist a lawyer one way or another, they basically understand what they can do," said Haque. "... It tells you what you're qualified for, what you're not qualified for and why."

The application begins by posing the underlying inquiry: "Would you say you are a resident of the US?"

The first inquiry posed in Quite a while.

The inquiry that follows assuming you click the "No, I'm not a resident yet" reply in Open Lines.

Contingent upon the response, further choices are given.

Through responding to a progression of inquiries, an individual's case is assessed and their choices for continuing are spread out.

The application is accessible in both English and Spanish, and Haque is wanting to add more dialects later on. Individuals don't have to make a record to utilize the application, and it doesn't save information assuming no record is made. Assuming somebody decides to make a record, it saves their responses and the Line Getting Law office can be employed through the application for their case.

"Regardless of whether no one employed me from this application … I made the application allowed to use for an explanation," said Haque. "I maintain that individuals should utilize it, and for individuals all around the world to have the option to figure out migration regulation and comprehend their choices in a truly basic, straightforward way."

Haque is hoping to grow the application, adding more elements like educational video directions later on.

"Every distinct individual throughout the long term, on the off chance that you take those individuals and add them up, it amounts to a great many individuals that I've aided, and someplace in there, that feels better to realize I had the option to help and have an effect in their lives," said Haque.

A couple of the legitimate administration's Line Crossing Law office offers alongside valuing through Open Boundaries.

Megan Michelotti can be reached at megan.Michelotti@helenair.Com.

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