Why these Philadelphia lawyers are helping immigrants seek a green card for only $1
Two Philadelphia lawyers who built software to simplify the process of applying for a U.S. green card are essentially giving away their product to low-income immigrants as a direct response to President Trump’s travel ban.
One of the attorneys, Jeremy Peskin, knows firsthand how difficult it is to navigate U.S. immigration laws. Born in Canada, he got his undergraduate and law degrees in the United States and worked at a large corporate law firm in New York. When he married an American woman and could then apply for a green card, he figured with his legal background he’d have no trouble filling out the paperwork himself. But the forms were so overly complicated and frustratingly counterintuitive that he gave up and hired an immigration attorney.
To Peskin, the system seemed unnecessarily arduous, not to mention costly — most immigration attorneys charged anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000 to file a green-card application.
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