Hi HN! Hello there! We at getfastvisa help mostly US applicants with Portugal visas and VFS! The part I thought was interesting to share here is the operations behind it.

A lot of immigration work is not really "lawyers thinking"... It is someone checking for appointment portals every day (VFS is a nightmare), looking for slots, retrying when pages break, preparing the next step, documenting what happened, updating the client, repeat. For dozens of clients.

In some workflows this was basically 80% of a junior/intern role. Important work, but very repetitive.

So we built internal computer-use / browser agents for it. We also tried talking with some law / immigration firms about this before. The pain was real, but many were so against thinking in workflows that it felt almost like witchcraft to them. So ok, instead of selling tools to the legal industry, we use the tools ourselves and compete with them.

I think this will happen a lot in legal AI / legal tech: the AI product is not always SaaS for incumbents. Sometimes it is a service company using agents internally and moving faster and cheaper.

I am curious to what HN thinks, not chatbots giving legal advice but agents doing boring real-world backoffice. Fragile portals, repeated cheks... audit trails...

that's actually an interesting concept and glad to see it has already worked for 500+ users, visa processes these days take a long time to complete, and unfortunately might require others to use multiple methods applications and different wait times just for one "approved" document. Hope to see other locations you might support in the future!

What a great way to make a system that's bursting at the seams, even worse.

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