This Is Why You're Here
Why Immigrations Come to Us Instead of Their Bank
USCIS raised filing fees 25%. Your active caseload has 80 pending applications. The fee increase adds $40K in costs that you can't pass to clients mid-case.
You're expanding to a second office in a community with high immigration demand. Build-out, bilingual staff, and marketing total $55K. The client base is there but the upfront investment isn't.
A corporate client wants to sponsor H-1B visas for 15 employees. Legal fees total $60K but the company pays net-45. You need to fund the work upfront.
Your bilingual paralegal quit and the replacement costs $55K/year plus a $3K recruiter fee. You've got 60 active cases that need Spanish-language client communication this week — not next month.
Premium processing requests spiked — 20 clients want expedited H-1B filings at $2,805 each. That's $56K in USCIS fees you need to front before clients reimburse you.
USCIS raised filing fees and I was looking at $40K in added costs across 80 pending cases. Basecamp connected me with a lender who understood immigration volume — $95K line of credit approved in 2 days. I didn't lose a single client.
Ana G., Immigration Attorney, Miami, FL
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Built for Your Business
Why Immigration Businesses Choose Basecamp
USCIS Fee Hikes Hit You Hardest
When filing fees jump 25% overnight, you can't renegotiate 80 active cases. You eat the cost. A credit line absorbs those shocks so a government policy change doesn't wreck your quarter.
Bilingual Staff Costs Real Money
Immigration firms need translators, bilingual paralegals, and multilingual intake staff. That's a payroll premium most law firms don't carry. Our lenders factor that overhead into their approval — they won't penalize you for it.
Second Office Where Your Clients Are
Your clients live in specific communities. Opening a second location isn't optional growth — it's how you serve people who can't drive 45 minutes for a filing update. We fund the build-out, staffing, and first three months of rent.
Government Deadlines Don't Flex
Miss a filing deadline and your client gets deported. That's not an exaggeration. When you need $15K in filing fees and translation costs this week, you can't wait 30 days for bank approval. We fund in 24 hours.
Bobby's Take
Bobby's Playbook for Immigration
Most immigration firm owners encounter bank lenders who evaluate them on small-business templates that weren't built for professional services. What gets missed: volume-based billing with $2K-$8K case engagements and steady file-volume cycles produces cash flow banks don't know how to read. Specialist lenders fund immigration practices on the actual cash-flow signature, not the bank's template. Here's how to position your transaction so the right specialists see it first.
Three things determine whether an immigration firm transaction closes: monthly case-engagement count, average per-case revenue, and your case-pipeline depth. Not your personal FICO. Not your time in practice. Specialist immigration lenders care about whether your monthly engagement revenue supports a $1,200-$2,500/month payment — and whether your case pipeline gives the file the recurring engagement-fee revenue floor it needs.
The biggest mistake immigration operators make: applying without showing case-volume metrics separately from per-case engagement values. Lenders see total revenue without context for whether it's coming from many small cases or a few large ones. The fix: produce a case-pipeline summary with case-count and per-case revenue. Specialist immigration lenders price high-volume case pipelines as predictable. Generalist lenders apply general professional-services aging.
case volume revenue lost without paralegal or associate capacity
Where this gets interesting at scale: an immigration firm adding an associate or paralegal, expanding to a second city, or acquiring a retiring attorney's case file doesn't need ONE loan. They need a working capital line for associate-credentialing payroll + a a revenue-based term loan against existing fee revenue to fund the acquisition or expansion + sometimes equipment financing for case-management technology. Three products, three lenders, one application — that's how solo immigration practices scale into multi-attorney immigration firms.
The immigration attorneys who scale fastest aren't the ones who waited for case volume to be perfectly predictable before adding capacity. They're the ones who had associate or paralegal capacity ready when case demand outpaced their personal billable-hour capacity. Turning down case volume because you can't process it is $60,000-$150,000 in annual engagement revenue going to competing immigration firms. Run the numbers in 60 seconds — see what 70+ specialist lenders will offer your immigration practice this week.
Bottom line:
Immigration firms get underwritten on volume-blind revenue totals when case-pipeline depth is the actual story. Show case-count and per-case revenue — that's how a specialist sees the recurring engagement-fee base.
Bobby Friel
Founder, Basecamp Funding
What You're Up Against
The Real Challenges Immigrations Face
Pricing Transparency
What Immigration Funding Actually Costs
Rates and terms depend on credit, revenue, time in business, and lender. Every business is unique — see what 70+ lenders will offer you in 60 seconds. Soft-pull pre-qual.
These are industry averages. Your actual rate depends on your revenue, credit profile, and time in business — it could be lower. Run your specific numbers in 30 seconds.
Calculate Your Real Cost →Immigration firms process hundreds of filings and every USCIS fee increase hits them hard. One attorney in Miami had 80 cases in the pipeline when fees jumped 25% — that's $40K she didn't budget for. We got her a $95K line of credit in two days. Problem solved.
Bobby Friel
Founder, Basecamp Funding
How It Works
From Application to Funded in 5 Steps
No paperwork avalanche. No bank lobby. No guessing.
60-Second Intake
Tell us about the firm, practice area, and monthly receipts. No retainer. No engagement letter.
Soft Credit Screen
We screen options with zero impact to your FICO or the firm's commercial credit profile.
Lenders Compete in the Background
Your file routes to 70+ lending partners who fund law firms. They compete; you stay focused on the docket.
One Specialist, Multiple Term Sheets
Your funding specialist walks through structures, draws, and how each affects firm liquidity. No runaround.
Choose Terms, Sign, Get Funded
Pick the structure that fits the case and the firm. E-signature. Capital lands as fast as same day.
Immigration Capital Uses
What Immigration Businesses Use Funding For
Payroll & Operations
Keep associates, paralegals, and staff paid during settlement gaps. Bridge the 30-90-day collection cycle.
Case Expenses
Expert witnesses, depositions, medical records, court costs — fund litigation without depleting reserves.
Marketing & Client Acquisition
SEO, Google Ads, LSAs, TV, radio, content marketing. Invest in the cases you want to take.
Technology & Software
Practice management, AI tools, client portals, cybersecurity. Stay competitive and efficient.
Office Space & Buildout
New office, renovation, second location. Project the credibility your clients expect.
Hiring & Expansion
New associates, of counsel arrangements, support staff. Scale without waiting on settlements.
Full Transparency
What Kills Your Qualification (And What Doesn't)
Most lenders won't tell you this upfront. We will.
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Don't Wait Until You Need Funding to Get Funded
Most firms wait until a trial expense or expert retainer hits to call us. The firms that win the long game pre-qualify when revenue is steady — that's when underwriting is friendliest. The best time to know your range is before you need to draw on it.
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Immigration law is a volume game. You've got 80 cases in the pipeline, USCIS just raised fees 25%, and you're eating $40K in costs you can't pass to clients mid-case. Translators, bilingual paralegals, filing fees — it all stacks up fast. And your clients? Some pay in installments. Some pay late. The government deadline doesn't care.
We fund immigration firms that run on tight margins and high volume. A $95K credit line for when USCIS drops a fee increase on you. $55K working capital to open that second office in the community that needs you. Corporate H-1B work where the company pays net-45 but you need to file now. One application, 70+ lenders, no hard pull. Family-based, asylum, corporate, removal defense — we've funded all of it.
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