SimpleCitizen, a TurboTax for Immigration?
Issie Laposky on Wired reports on a tech company — SimpleCitizen — that is seeking to make the mmigration process more efficient:
“SimpleCitizen is like TurboTax for green cards. It walks users through a series of questions and uses them to fill out the arcane immigration application. It sounds like a small idea, but in reality, it shrinks the amount of time it takes to fill out a green card application from several months to several hours, and eliminates the thousands of dollars people would otherwise spend on immigration lawyers.”
Sam Stoddard, the co-founder of SimpleCitizen, learnede how burdensome the green card process was until he began filling out the application for his wife, a South Korean native, who had lived in the U.S. as a student. Stoddard developed the application and had it reviewed by an immigration lawyer.
SimpleCitizen describes itself as follows:
“SimpleCitizen is dedicated to innovating immigration. By creating tools that make the immigration process more easy, affordable and online we are helping families establish themselves in new communities around the world. Since our founding in 2014, we continue to work at becoming your trusted partner in immigration.”
KJ