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Technology and Immigration The technological changes and
business in the immigration space in 2020 were amazing. I can’t even imagine how 2021 is going to look like in this space. Here are some changes that happened in US Immigration tech in 2020 that have touched your practice:
• Mitratech acquires TrackerCorp and INSZoom
Mitratech, an Austin, Texasbased, private equity-backed legal and compliance software company, purchased Tracker on July 31, 2020. This allowed a technology company to enter the immigration space and led to their unexpected purchase of Immigration Case Management Platform INSZoom. We will need to wait and see how this will all be put together.
• C o r p o r a t e Immigration Partners and Envoy Global join forces TrackerCorp was founded by Julie Pearl, founder of the Pearl Law Group. In 2020, Julie retired from the law firm she created, and the firm’s brand was changed to Corporate Immigration Partners (CIP). Soon after CIP announced a strategic partnership with Envoy Global, a global immigration services provider offering an immigration management platform for companies to hire and manage their international workforce.
• B o u n d l e s s Immigration Acquires RapidVisa
In a move that caused some ruckus in the Immigration Lawyer community, two platforms that try to use tech to streamline the non-use of law firms in the We asked lawyers about the way they submit Form i m m i g ra t i o n N-400. Do they do it online, or do they like to do it space, the old school and mail the physical documents in? Seattle-based Boundless, Here is the result of the poll purchased long-standing RapidVisa, allowing it to massively increase the volume and types of visa categories it can service.
• S i m p l e C i t i z e n purchased by Fragomen In another unexpected turn of events, Boundless Immigration competitor SimpleCitizen was purchase by Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP with the goal of using the software platform to update its existing systems to help support its growing international migration practice and to compete with the Big 4 accounting firms that’s slowly entering the immigration space.
There were several other large and small moves that happened. Our colleague Roman Zelichenko documented them in detail here:
https://www.linkedin.com/ pulse/immigration-tech-2020acquisitions-partnerships-vcroman/
