Amélie-Sophie Vavrovsky’s experience as an international student who came to the U.S. from Austria prompted her to examine this country’s immigration processes more carefully.

One thing she learned is that many employers decide not to sponsor immigrant employees because of the often complicated legal work that is required as part of a time-consuming process.

This discovery prompted her to further develop an immigration technology platform she built called Formally so that it could assist organizations with legal tasks necessary for hiring and retaining foreign employees in the U.S.

Vavrovsky told Legal Dive her hope is that Formally will become the “go-to tool for immigration compliance and management” for a wide array of employers.

Guided through tasks

A key way Formally can help in-house legal teams is by walking them step-by-step through employment visa processes, most of which require detailed submissions to government agencies.

This technology-assisted functionality saves companies the time and expense of having to create their own processes for completing documents and filing them as needed.

The platform can also eliminate some repetitive work, Vavrovsky said, and it is currently available in 10 languages.

H-1B, L-1A, 0-1A and EB-1 are among the visa types that Formally can help users with.

“It’s a pretty comprehensive tool in that it can handle both simpler and more complicated cases,” Vavrovsky said.

Reducing legal spend

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