There is a genre of app that exists because an industry failed to build one for decades. Banking got there in the 2010s. Health records are still fighting about it. This month it was immigration's turn: URPE Integral Services, an immigration case-preparation firm that works entirely in Spanish, put "URPE IS" on the App Store — and with it, something genuinely novel. When your green-card petition is filed with the U.S. government, your phone buzzes. At that exact moment.
The app, which launched August 19th and is free to download, does roughly what you'd expect a case-management client to do, which is precisely what almost nobody in this industry offers. Clients see the exact stage of their case in real time. Documents get delivered and uploaded inside the app instead of over email threads. There's direct messaging with the coordinator and advisor assigned to the case, stage-based payment tracking, and push notifications for every milestone — including the one that matters most, the instant a petition is filed with USCIS.
Two honest caveats before anyone gets excited. First, this is not a consumer app: it requires an active URPE client account, so it's a product for the firm's existing customers, not a self-serve immigration tool. Second, it's iOS-only for now — Android is "in development," which anyone serving a Spanish-speaking, heavily Android market should treat as urgent. There's a web portal in the meantime.
What makes the launch interesting is the machine behind it. URPE runs a proprietary AI platform that works around the clock — answering questions at any hour, keeping clients oriented across the firm's 11-stage process — while human advisors own each phase of the actual work. The company is careful with the framing: the AI is not autonomous and doesn't replace people. It absorbs the waiting. The app is the screen bolted onto that system. (URPE is a case-preparation services firm, not a law firm, and does not provide legal advice.)
The timing isn't random. The firm's core category is the EB-2 National Interest Waiver, a green-card route where professionals petition for themselves — no employer sponsor, no lottery — under Matter of Dhanasar, a 2016 decision. Filings exploded from 21,990 in fiscal 2022 to 66,276 in fiscal 2025, according to USCIS data analyzed by specialized publications. Then the screws tightened: approval rates near 96% in fiscal 2022 fell to 55.2% in fiscal 2025 and 42.6% in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, after USCIS guidance effective January 15th, 2025 sharpened scrutiny of endeavors, support letters, and business plans. More than 82,000 petitions now sit in queue, with typical processing around 24 months.
Two years is a long time to wonder what's happening to the most important file of your life. In most of the industry, "how's my case going?" gets answered during business hours, eventually, maybe. URPE's bet is that the question should be obsolete — that a family should look at a screen, not wait by a phone.
"Everyone says they accompany their clients. We decided to prove it in software. When your case moves, your phone knows before you would have thought to ask." — Diego Urquijo, president of URPE Integral Services.
The firm has the install base to test the thesis: a registered community of more than 35,000 people, more than 1,200 NIW cases in active preparation, and — per its physical contracts and records — more than 13,000 immigration cases of all types filed since its founding. Its method leans hard into the tougher standard: before filing, the firm builds the client's actual venture — business plan, white papers, a working web application, expert endorsements — so the petition describes something that exists rather than something promised.
Whether one app drags a famously analog industry into software is a bigger question. But the direction of travel seems right: the most opaque bureaucratic process in American life just got a progress bar. Now ship the Android version.
