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This is what deskilling looks like. To deal with a simple immigration issue (spouse visa, say) you used to hire a cheap immigration lawyer to make sure all the

• sandworm101 10y ago
  They aren't giving you all the services of a lawyer. I think this is less de-skilling than a more efficient delivery of barebones service. They aren't going to tell you which immigration path is best, especially from a tax perspective. That requires a proper discussion of you and your family's assets and expected earnings. Nor will they be able to answer broader questions such as whether your kids will or will not be subject to selective service, either in the US or in your country of origin, something that doesn't depend on citizenship alone.
  • HarryHirsch 10y ago
    That's why I said "simple immigration issues". The garden-variety family-based green card does not require much beyond filling the paperwork, and now the app tells you what to fill in the boxes. It used to be that paralegals would excerpt boxes of documents, now you have OCR applications and text search - the low-level work is automated. It's really the same with this service.