For RCICs · Solo and small practices
Iris keeps intake, case stages, document checklists, deadlines, retainers and client messages on one record — in French and in English, with Quebec work treated as first-class rather than as an exception. It is built and used by a practising RCIC at HBS Immigration (CICC licence R707943).
Try free for 14 daysMost practices run on a spreadsheet, a shared drive and an inbox. It works until the caseload grows, a colleague needs the file, or a client asks what is still missing.
| What you deal with | Iris | Spreadsheet + drive + inbox |
|---|---|---|
| Where a client file lives | One client record — cases, documents, notes, invoices | A spreadsheet row, a drive folder and an email thread |
| Missing documents | A checklist per case type shows what is outstanding | You reopen the folder and work it out again |
| Quebec work | CAQ, CSQ, Arrima and MIFI beside federal cases | A column you invented, named differently by each person |
| Study-abroad admissions | On the same client record as the permit file | A second tracker, and the same transcript collected twice |
| Working language | French or English, chosen per user | Whatever the tool happened to ship in |
| Client messages | Filed against the case, visible to the team | On one person’s phone |
| Handing a file to a colleague | Open the file — history, documents and notes are there | Ask whoever handled it last |
Several platforms serve RCICs, and they cover the federal basics well. Practices move to Iris for the parts those tools were never designed around: Quebec files, a bilingual interface their francophone clients and staff actually work in, and study-abroad admissions living on the same client record as the immigration file that follows.
Open your first client file and see what is missing on it — before the deadline does it for you.
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