Key takeaways
- 1Connect centralizes immigration documents, such as I-797 approval notices, I-94 admission records, and Green Cards, pulls out the dates hidden inside them automatically, and lets you export everything cleanly when you change schools, employers, or attorneys.
- 2A built-in priority date tracker checks your category and country of birth against each month's Visa Bulletin, and policy update notifications are tagged to your exact status so you're not reading updates that don't apply to you.
- 3A resource library covers specific situations like RFEs and layoffs through paid guides, backed by a free immigration-know-how blog and an in-depth glossary of immigration terms.
- 4A vetted attorney network and a direct 'ask a question' line both reach real people: questions go straight to founder Paige Tremblay, a business immigration professional with 15 years of experience, who answers personally or routes you to an attorney when it's a legal question.
- 5A 10-day free trial lets you try Connect before paying; after that, pricing starts at $9.99/month ($7.99/month billed annually) for a single user, and the first 20 annual subscribers get a free consultation with a Green & Spiegel immigration attorney.
A Document Vault That Travels With You, Not Your Employer
Most people on a work visa end up with their immigration paperwork scattered across an employer's HR portal, a law firm's client login, old email attachments, and a folder on their own laptop, none of which they fully control. Connect's starting premise is that this should be one account that belongs to the person, not the company sponsoring them or the firm filing on their behalf. Founder Paige Tremblay built it after years inside law firms and in-house immigration teams watching people lose access to their own case history the moment they changed jobs or firms. That ownership model is backed by real infrastructure: documents are private to each individual account, hosting runs on a SOC 2-audited platform, the company follows GDPR, UK GDPR, and CCPA standards, and users can delete their data at any time. For a product asking people to upload sensitive immigration paperwork, that's the right set of guardrails to lead with.
How the Core Workflow Feels
The flow is built around one action: upload. Add an I-797 approval notice, an I-94 admission record, a Green Card, or another immigration document and Connect reads it and pulls out the dates that actually matter, rather than asking you to re-enter them by hand. Those dates feed a dashboard that tracks expirations and deadlines for everyone on your plan, with email and SMS reminders sent ahead of time so a filing window doesn't quietly close while you're focused on work. When your situation changes, a new employer, a new school, a new attorney, you can export what you've built in Connect instead of rebuilding it inside whichever portal that other party hands you next. The same dashboard extends to family: the Family plan folds the same workflow across up to 3 additional members, with extra members added at $0.50/month each.
Differentiator: A Priority Date Tracker That Reads the Visa Bulletin For You
Checking the monthly Visa Bulletin is one of the more tedious recurring tasks in the green card process: find the right chart, find your country of birth and category, compare it to your priority date, and repeat every month. Connect takes your country of birth, category, and priority date once and checks it against the current chart automatically, reporting whether you're current without you doing the lookup yourself. The same logic runs on the policy side: instead of a general news feed, update notifications are tagged to your exact status, so an H-1B holder isn't reading updates meant for an F-1 student. A 10-day free trial lets you see both the tracker and the notifications run against your own information before paying anything.
Differentiator: A Resource Library Backed by a Human Who's Done This
Most document trackers stop at the dashboard. Connect pairs its tracking with a resource library built for the moments a dashboard alone can't answer: paid guides that walk through specific H-1B and F-1 situations, including self-check workbooks, a free immigration-know-how blog covering things like USCIS case tracking and processing times, and an in-depth glossary of immigration terms. When a question still doesn't fit into a guide, a vetted attorney network and a direct 'ask a question' line both reach real people. The attorney network puts you in touch with a trusted immigration attorney, with fees arranged directly between you and them, while the 'ask a question' line goes straight to founder Paige Tremblay, who has 15 years of hands-on business immigration experience. She answers personally wherever she can, short of giving legal advice, and otherwise points you to a relevant update or the right attorney.
Who Gets the Most Out of Connect
The clearest fit is someone currently on H-1B, H-4, F-1 (including OPT or STEM OPT), TN, E-3, L-1, or O-1 status, or already in the green card process, who wants their own record of what's due and when, independent of whichever employer or firm is filing on their behalf right now. It's an especially strong fit for anyone managing a family's worth of statuses at once, where losing track of one person's renewal date among several is the realistic failure mode a shared dashboard is built to prevent. It's also a product built by someone who has spent 15 years on the inside of business immigration, across both law firms and in-house teams, which shows up not just in which dates the tool chooses to track, but in the fact that a direct question about your situation reaches her personally rather than a support queue.
Ratings
Upload-and-extract is a simple mental model, and the dashboard, tracker, and resource library all stay reachable from the same place rather than scattered across separate tools
$7.99 to $14.99 a month covers document tracking, deadline reminders, priority date checks, and the resource library, with a 10-day free trial to test it against your own documents first
Pairing automated Visa Bulletin checks and status-tagged policy alerts with a direct line to the founder herself is a combination that goes well beyond a typical document tracker
Document extraction and export, the priority date tracker, status-tagged notifications, situation-specific guides, a know-how blog and glossary, an attorney network, and a founder-answered question line cover a lot of ground
Questions go directly to founder Paige Tremblay, a 15-year business immigration professional, who answers personally, though actual legal advice itself stays out of scope and routes to the attorney network instead
Best for
People on a U.S. work visa or green card track, especially those managing multiple family members' statuses or who want more than a bare dashboard, guides, a glossary, and a direct line to an immigration professional when a question gets specific.
Not ideal for
Anyone who wants Connect purely as a bare-bones deadline tracker without touching the broader resource library can do that too, since the guides, blog, and attorney network are there to use when wanted rather than required for the core document tracking to work.
Pros
- Documents and deadlines live in an account you own, not a portal that disappears when you change jobs, schools, or firms, and you can export cleanly when you do move on
- Automatically extracts key dates from uploaded documents like I-797 approval notices, I-94 records, and Green Cards instead of requiring manual entry
- Priority date tracker checks your category and country of birth against the monthly Visa Bulletin automatically, with policy update notifications tagged to your exact status
- A resource library of paid situation-specific guides with self-check workbooks, a free immigration-know-how blog, and an in-depth glossary
- A direct 'ask a question' line reaches founder Paige Tremblay personally, backed by a vetted attorney network for anything that needs real legal counsel
- Family plan covers you plus 3 additional members in one dashboard, with extra members at $0.50/month
- SOC 2-audited hosting that follows GDPR, UK GDPR, and CCPA privacy standards, with data deletion available at any time
Cons
- Legal advice itself sits outside the product; it's handled through the attorney network and the 'ask a question' line, with full legal counsel arranged separately once a question needs it.
- The Family plan's 3 included members cover most households well, and larger multi-generational families can simply add more at $0.50/month each.
Verdict
Connect is built for the specific moment a lot of visa holders and green card applicants hit eventually: the realization that nobody else is actually responsible for tracking your deadlines, and the systems that do exist belong to someone else. For anyone in that position, having one account that tracks the dates, checks the Visa Bulletin, and gives you a guide, a blog, a glossary, and a direct line to an actual immigration professional when something more specific comes up, covers more ground than a plain deadline tracker. Start with the 10-day free trial to try Connect with your own documents before anything is charged. After that, single-user plans run $7.99/month billed annually (or $9.99/month) and the Family plan is $11.99/month annually (or $14.99/month) for you plus 3 family members. Sign up for an annual plan now and you're also in line for one of the first 20 free consultations with a Green & Spiegel immigration attorney.
Frequently asked questions
What documents can I upload to Connect?
Immigration documents like I-797 approval notices, I-94 admission records, and Green Cards, among others. Connect reads each one and pulls out the dates that matter, such as expirations and filing deadlines, and lets you export everything if you move to a new employer, school, or attorney.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Connect offers a 10-day free trial before any charge. After the trial, billing follows whichever plan and interval you picked at signup, monthly or annual, single-user or Family.
Can I get help beyond the dashboard?
Yes. A resource library includes paid guides for specific situations, such as RFEs and layoffs, with self-check workbooks, a free immigration-know-how blog, and an in-depth glossary. For anything more specific, a vetted attorney network and a direct 'ask a question' line both reach real people, including founder Paige Tremblay, who answers personally outside of legal advice.
Does Connect give legal advice?
No. Connect tracks your documents and deadlines, and a direct 'ask a question' line goes to founder Paige Tremblay, who answers personally where she can and connects you with an attorney in its network when a question needs actual legal counsel; any attorney fees are arranged directly between you and that attorney.
How does the priority date tracker work?
You enter your country of birth, category, and priority date once, and Connect checks that against each month's Visa Bulletin chart and tells you when you're current, so you don't have to read the chart yourself.