The e-government kiosks were installed at five stores in Houston to provide non-banking financial services to the Hispanic population. The kiosks will have English and Spanish versions of five of the most common immigration forms.
They will run ClearPath software, and ClearPath will charge between $25 and $100 per form. NCR has a revenue-sharing agreement with that company.
According to MarketWire, more than 100 million immigration forms are filed in the US each year.
Individual applicants frequently engage non-attorney third-parties, often referred to as notarios, to prepare forms at fees of $250 to as much as $1 000 per form. While notarios market themselves as immigration experts, they often have no formal training in US immigration law or processes.
In contrast, the ClearPath software empowers individuals to complete these forms themselves and is designed to help the user avoid common errors, such as entering incorrect alien registration numbers or codes for ports of entry that can cause the form to be rejected.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Jacob Nthoiwa
Quelle/Source: ITWeb, 21.07.2011
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