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Every government-side source for a client lives on one place: the Government tab on their page.

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USCIS case status

Track a matter’s receipt numbers and follow them without logging into anything. Add the receipt number from the Form I-797C notice — 13 characters, a 3-letter office code followed by 10 digits, like IOE0912345678. Lexfill checks it against USCIS and then keeps checking daily, so a status change reaches you without anyone remembering to look. A receipt USCIS can’t find, or rejects as invalid, tells you so immediately rather than failing quietly. Transient problems — a rate limit, an outage, a network failure — are retried by the daily check automatically.

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Court Watch

An immigration court that quietly moves a hearing earlier is the most dangerous change in the practice: miss it and your client can be ordered removed in absentia. Court Watch checks the court’s own hearing schedule for every client you choose to watch. Starting a watch. On the client’s Government tab, confirm the A-number and nationality — filled in from the profile when intake already captured them — and press Watch. What happens then. Any change raises an alert, puts the new hearing on your calendar, and — because an earlier hearing means a compressed timeline — files a task to review the client’s payment plan. Subscribe once. Tracked hearings feed a calendar subscription, so they land in the calendar you already live in — Google, Outlook, or Apple.
One-time setup. Court Watch checks hearing dates in a real browser tab on your computer, so it needs the Lexfill Assistant browser extension — a small file you unzip once and keep in a folder. Walk through it on Settings → Court Watch; the status box there turns green when it’s running. Checks happen while Lexfill is open.
The Court Watch page in the sidebar lists every tracked case and its current hearing across the firm.

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FOIA requests

You can’t advise safely on what you can’t see. Lex builds a USCIS FOIA/Privacy Act request from the record you already hold — the A-File, or specific records such as an I-130, I-485, I-94 or entry records. Ask Lex on a linked matter, or start one from the client’s Government tab. It:
  • Fills Form G-639 from the client’s own record and files it in their documents — including the parents’ names USCIS demands but the client’s current form never asked, read from an earlier filing.
  • Opens a submission worksheet with every value in the order the portal asks for it.
  • Flags what actually closes requests before you submit — the office address entered as the client’s, a blank parent row, a birthdate that reads day-first.
  • Tells you what to leave out — no Form G-28, no cover letter, no unrequested ID copies.
  • Keeps the record — the control number, the 20-business-day clock, and a nudge when USCIS runs late.
Lexfill does not submit the request. Since 22 January 2026 USCIS accepts FOIA requests online only, at first.uscis.gov, under the requesting attorney’s own USCIS account — and the released records are delivered into that account, not into Lexfill. The client must also hand-sign the G-639 consent page; a typed name is rejected.
Name specific records rather than the whole A-File when you know what you need — USCIS processes specific-document requests materially faster. A client with a scheduled immigration court hearing goes on the accelerated track, but only if you upload the hearing notice with the request.