Stop chasing immigration clients over email for their documents.
Send your client a secure request link — they upload the passport, visa, and financial evidence you asked for with no account to create, and every file is encrypted in their browser so only your firm can open them.
14-day trial, everything unlocked · then free for 1 open request at a time · no card · $29 per seat when you’re ready · Hosted in the EU
Email is not a channel for passports and case evidence.
Case documents arrive through five channels
Passports, I-797 notices, pay stubs and RFE evidence over email, WhatsApp and in person. A privacy risk and a versioning mess on every filing deadline.
The “serious” portals your clients won’t use
If a client has to create an account and remember another password, they won’t — and you’re back to email. For clients filing in a second language, the friction is worse.
No control, no audit trail
You can’t see who opened a file, when access expires, or from where. On documents that decide someone’s status, confidentiality can’t rest on nobody forwarding an email.
How it works
You create a document request
Name the client, list what the case needs — passport, I-797, financial support evidence, a copy of an ID — and set a PIN. It takes seconds.
Your client uploads through the link
No account to create, no password to remember, no app to install. They open the link on a phone or a laptop and drop the files in.
Only your firm can open them
Every file is encrypted in the client’s browser before it uploads. We store ciphertext and never hold the keys — your firm does.
Why immigration firms choose it
Your clients need no account
They open the link and drop the files in — no sign-up, no password, no app, from a phone or a laptop. The reason “serious” portals get ignored, removed.
Data residency, settled
Database in Frankfurt, files in Amsterdam. A DPA ready to sign — the “where does the data live” question, closed, for immigration files that cross borders on paper.
Encrypted before it reaches us
Files are encrypted before upload, so the server stores only ciphertext — only your firm holds the keys to open them. Not us, not an attacker, not anyone in between.
You can verify it
The encryption library is open-source. We don’t ask for blind trust — anyone can audit how a client’s passport and financials are protected.
For a file holding a client’s passport and financials, “you can verify it” has to mean something. The build log is where that work is published: the migration that moved the cryptography into a standalone open-source library, the change that made post-quantum encryption the default for documents that stay sensitive for decades, and an adversarial audit read against the product’s own source code — sixteen must-fix items, published together with the fixes.
Your client sees your firm, not ours.
A link from a vendor they have never heard of is the one clients hesitate over. Add your logo and firm name once, and every upload page and reminder email carries them instead of ours. It is included in the Firm plan and in the 14-day trial, not held back for a higher tier.
Your firm decides who sees what, and until when.
Collection runs one way; returning the filed petition or the signed forms runs the other. Every outbound link carries an expiry, a download limit and a list of allowed countries. A confidential file only opens from where you say — and everything travels end-to-end encrypted.
Per seat, not per gigabyte.
Case documents are small; your caseload is not. You pay for the people in your firm who send requests — never for storage, and never per client. Your clients don’t pay and don’t create an account.
Or $290 per seat / year — $24.17 a month, $58 a seat off the monthly rate.
14 days with everything unlocked, then free for 1 open request at a time, with links that last up to 7 days. No card.
- Unlimited document requests
- Unlimited clients — they never pay and never sign up
- Automatic client reminders
- Your logo on client pages and emails
- Links open up to 90 days, or with no expiry
- Storage included, not metered
- Zero-knowledge encryption, EU hosting and the DPA on every seat
Fair use: 100 GB of storage per seat, and 50 GB of downloads per seat each month — both roughly fifty times what a working practice moves in a year. The two behave differently and it is worth knowing which: going over on storage never blocks a client’s upload, we tell you and ask you to add seats or clear space; downloads do stop at the monthly ceiling until the cycle resets or you add a seat.
$29 a seat — locked in.
Start with 14 days with everything unlocked. After that the free plan allows 1 open request at a time, links last up to 7 days and client reminders stop. Buy seats when you need more or add your team. Early firms keep the $29 founding rate for as long as they stay — no card to start, no call, no sales process.
Both buttons open a 2-seat checkout — the attorney who sends the request and the paralegal who chases it. Change the number on the next page before you pay.
Compare it, and read deeper
Weighing this against the tools your practice already knows? These honest, two-way comparisons put ShieldFive next to the incumbents — where each one leads, and where it doesn’t.
How immigration lawyers can collect client documents securely
Passports, birth certificates and bank statements from clients who are not tech savvy: what ABA guidance asks, and what each tool asks of the client.
Secure document collection for immigration lawyers
Immigration document-collection workflows, case-management features, storage locations and audit evidence, compared.
How to collect identity documents from immigration clients
Step by step: set up the request, what the client sees, and where passports and certificates land once uploaded.
ShieldFive vs Content Snare
Two ways to collect documents from clients: reminder automation and templates, or zero-knowledge encryption by default.
ShieldFive vs ShareFile
Where a mature, provider-managed incumbent and a zero-knowledge, post-quantum alternative actually differ.
Try it on your next
client filing.
Create an account, build one document request and send it to a client you’re already chasing. If it saves you the email thread, keep using it. No card, no call, no sales process.
Open-source encryption · DPA available · Hosted in the EU