Visalaw.ai is a legal technology company dedicated to transforming US immigration law through purpose-built generative AI. Rather than offering a general legal assistant, it is engineered exclusively for immigration practice, combining a proprietary immigration-specific knowledge base with generative AI to help attorneys draft petitions, analyze fast-moving policy changes and process massive document sets in minutes instead of days. The product reflects a deep conviction that immigration work — with its specialized filings, voluminous evidence and constant regulatory churn — demands a vertical tool rather than a horizontal one.
What sets Visalaw.ai apart is its content. It is positioned as the only AI platform with access to trusted legal publications created by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and it integrates a comprehensive immigration law library including primary legal sources and AILA's Practice and Procedures Manual — the so-called 'Cookbook' — co-authored by company co-founder Greg Siskind. This authoritative, immigration-specific corpus is designed to ground the AI's output in reliable, practitioner-vetted material and reduce the hallucination risk that worries lawyers about general models.
The company was co-founded by well-known immigration lawyer Greg Siskind and Josh Waddell, with a founding team drawn from the immigration bar, including Jason Susser of Siskind Susser PC, one of the country's top immigration firms. Waddell, the CEO, moved from legal operations into software development specifically to solve the inefficiencies he experienced firsthand in practice. At Siskind Susser, the firm reports up to a 90% reduction in time spent drafting key filings, including lengthy EB-1 petitions.
Visalaw.ai raised a $1.6 million seed round from lead investor Valor Ventures, an Atlanta-based firm focused on AI and B2B companies in the Southeast. The raise supports growth and continued product innovation as immigration tech matures from experiment to established category.
Visalaw.ai competes within a 2025 cohort of funded immigration-AI startups, differentiating on authoritative AILA-sourced content and founder credibility as practicing immigration attorneys — an attempt to win trust in a field where accuracy and source provenance are paramount.