About Vadens.
Vadens helps ICE detainees and their families find a personalized legal pathway and plan to get the detainee released, and helps families prepare the legal documents and evidence for bond hearings and habeas corpus.
What this is
The way out of detention depends on facts a family often already has: where the person is held, how they entered, and what papers ICE gave them. Vadens asks for those facts one question at a time. Then it shows which release paths are open, which are closed, what to do first, and which documents and evidence to prepare.
Short guides answer the questions families ask most: finding someone, bond hearings, paying a bond, rights at the door, and a family plan.
What this is not
It is not a lawyer, and it files nothing. This is information, not legal advice.
Who runs Vadens
Vadens is operated by .
The guides have not yet been reviewed by an immigration attorney.
How it is paid for
It is free, and it stays free. The site takes no advertising, has no sponsored links, sells nothing, and receives nothing from any organisation it links to.
Privacy
The one thing we ask about you is how to reach you: a phone number or an email. The questions ask about the detained person, including their status, because the way out depends on it. What is recorded — and what is deliberately not — is set out in full on the privacy page, which is written to describe what the code actually does rather than what we would like it to do.
Two details worth knowing here. Every page has a quick-exit control: the Exit button, or the Esc key, replaces this site with Google immediately. It is deliberately not instrumented — pressing it sends us nothing. And the site sends no referrer information to anywhere you click through to, so the sites in our links do not learn you arrived from a page about ICE detention.