Boca Raton · Three Languages · Built for Court
Evidence for the court. Kindness in the room.
Psychological evaluations built to be filed: Asylum, Extreme Hardship, VAWA, U-Visa and the rest. Rigorous enough for your attorney, and written by someone who remembers you are a person.
It is a clinical report that puts on paper what your circumstances have cost you and the people around you: what you survived before, what you fear if sent back, being kept apart from family, abuse, or hardship a form has no room to explain.
Filed with your application, this is often the strongest single piece of supporting evidence you have. Judges and USCIS officers read these properly. A clear, well-founded account from someone who understands both the psychology and the process can change where a case ends up.
Fourteen years in practice, and I know the relief categories that call for an evaluation well. I write for the person who has to read it: ordered, grounded in evidence, no jargon, and still recognisably about a human being.
For people asking not to be sent back to somewhere that persecuted them. The report records the symptoms tied to what happened, what returning would mean, and the mark it has all left, so your attorney has clinical evidence rather than assertion.
When an American or permanent-resident relative would suffer extreme hardship from losing you or following you, the report captures what that would actually mean for them emotionally, psychologically, financially and medically.
For people abused by an American or permanent-resident spouse, parent or child. The report documents what the abuse did, including trauma, anxiety, depression and PTSD, so your self-petition rests on a clinician's findings.
For victims of qualifying crimes who suffered serious mental or physical harm. The report establishes what the crime did to you and gives the U-Visa application detailed clinical findings to stand on.
For people who were trafficked. I take the account carefully, at your pace, and record the lasting psychological effects your relief depends on.
Setting out, in clinical terms, the exceptional and extremely unusual hardship your qualifying American relative would face if you were removed.
From the first phone call to the finished report. You will always know what happens next and when.
We go through the case, what your attorney needs, and when. No pressure, just a clear answer.
I read everything your attorney sends, then book you in for a 2–3 hour interview.
The interview itself, unhurried, in your language. Boca Raton or by video.
The finished report, in your hands and your attorney's, normally inside 7–14 days.
A case takes a long time and wears people down. If you want to keep seeing me for therapy once the evaluation is written, you can.
Explore therapy servicesHow the immigration side of my practice is named
This practice runs under my own name, Najla Sallum, LCSW. For the immigration side of the practice I also trade as Immigration Evaluations Center™ when the material is aimed at attorneys and court work.
I have sat with the parent who has not held their child since before the case started, the person who left a country that stopped being safe, and the family whose whole future rests on one filing.
I set up Immigration Evaluations Center™ because of those rooms. The long pauses, the crying, and what it takes to begin again somewhere new. None of it is paperwork to me.
I write every evaluation with one conviction: what happened to you should be recorded properly, by someone who was listening.
@immigration_evaluations_centerThe things attorneys and clients ask me most.
A written clinical report from a licensed professional setting out what your immigration situation has done to you psychologically, filed with your application as evidence.
Expect 2–3 hours for the interview and 7–14 days for the report. I can normally see you within 1–2 weeks of your first call.
It depends on how complex the case is. Ring me first, at no charge, and I will give you a straight figure.
Yes. Pick whichever of the three you would rather speak in. The report is written in it too.
Yes. Come to Boca Raton, or we do it by secure video anywhere in Florida.
Asylum, Extreme Hardship waivers (I-601 and I-601A), VAWA self-petitions, U-Visa, T-Visa for people who were trafficked, and Cancellation of Removal are all cases where an evaluation carries weight.