The Immigrant and Refugee Appellate Center, LLC (IRAC) is a public interest immigration law firm. It is dedicated to representing persons from throughout the world in immigration matters. IRAC defends individuals in appellate proceedings before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), the federal circuit courts of appeals, and in habeas proceedings in federal district courts. Among others, it has represented asylum applicants, applicants for relief under the Convention Against Torture, lawful permanent residents, derivative United States citizens, and parolees who are threatened with removal or deportation from the United States.

In addition, IRAC assists immigration attorneys. It provides a same day filing service with the BIA. It arranges to review and copy Records of Proceedings (ROP’s) at the BIA. It researches and drafts briefs, motions, and memoranda of law for all levels of immigration proceedings.

Thomas Hutchins, Esq. established IRAC in 2001. Mr. Hutchins brings more than fifteen years of appellate experience to IRAC, first as a staff attorney with a refugee group in South Texas and then as a private practitioner in Virginia. He is joined by James Feroli, Esq., with over five years of immigration law practice.





Immigration Pleading and Practice Manual

by Anna Gallagher and Thomas Hutchins (Thomson West 2006).
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IRAC is not offering legal advice with its website.

Use of IRAC's website does not create an attorney-client relationship.

IRAC makes no claims as to the accuracy or persuasive force of any of the materials found on its website. Anyone who uses any of the materials found on IRAC's website does so entirely at his or her own risk.

IRAC strongly cautions all visitors to its site that immigration law frequently changes, and often those changes dramatically alter pre-existing immigration law. The best approach is always to research current law on one's own, or if one is not a lawyer, to engage the services of an experienced immigration attorney.