GreenCardHero

What GreenCardHero does

GreenCardHero, LLC is a privately held, bootstrapped software company founded in 2018 and headquartered at 2000 Allston Way #136, Berkeley, California. It develops desktop immigration software that guides married couples through the U.S. marriage-based green card application process. The company's primary product, GreenCardHero: Spouse Edition, is a downloadable application built on the Angular web framework and Electron cross-platform desktop framework, designed to operate fully offline so that sensitive personal data — Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses — never leaves the user's computer and is never transmitted to GreenCardHero's servers. The software translates a personalized questionnaire and document checklist into completed USCIS forms (I-130, I-130A, I-485, I-864, I-765, I-131, G-1145), generates personalized cover letters, and produces step-by-step filing and post-submission instructions. A second product, GreenCardHero: Removal of Condition Edition, extends coverage to conditional permanent residents filing to remove conditions on their green card.

The company operates a freemium go-to-market model: the desktop software is free to download for Windows and Mac, with payment of $299 triggered only when the user downloads the completed application forms and cover letters. An optional add-on lawyer review service (~$500) is offered through third-party immigration attorneys. Distribution is entirely direct, via the company website greencardhero.com, supported by content marketing (educational guides, timeline tools, blog posts), Google reviews cited as social proof, in-app Intercom chat support, and MailChimp email communications. GreenCardHero markets itself as 'America's #1 immigration software' and claims to be 'trusted by over 2,500 applicants' based on Google reviews. All operations are U.S.-only, and the Terms of Use explicitly restrict service to individuals located in the United States. The company is co-founded by Wenqin and Toshiro, a married couple who went through the green card process themselves, and operates with 1-10 employees and no disclosed external funding.

Name

GreenCardHero

Legal name

GreenCardHero, LLC

Website

https://greencardhero.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

GreenCardHero builds offline desktop software (Angular + Electron) that guides married couples through U.S. marriage-based green card applications via a questionnaire, document checklist, and automated USCIS form generation, sold via a freemium model at $299 per completed filing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Immigration Software

akta.pro primary industry

Immigration Compliance Software & Case Management Tools (Student Visa Focus) (EDAIADAO)

Keywords

• Immigration software
• Green card application
• Marriage visa filing
• USCIS form automation
• Spouse visa tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Berkeley

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Software License (Freemium Model): GreenCardHero follows a freemium model where the desktop software is free to download and use for most features (questionnaire, document checklist, instructions). Users pay 299 USD only when they download the completed application forms and cover letters. An optional lawyer review service is available separately at approximately 500 USD through third-party immigration attorneys.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

GreenCardHero sells downloadable desktop software that guides married couples through completing U.S. marriage-based green card applications. The software uses a personalized questionnaire to auto-fill official USCIS forms (I-130, I-130A, I-485, I-864, I-765, I-131, G-1145), generates a personalized document checklist and cover letter, and provides step-by-step filing instructions. Two editions are offered: Spouse Edition for the initial green card application and Removal of Condition Edition for removing conditions on a conditional green card.

Product overview

GreenCardHero offers desktop immigration software that helps couples complete marriage green card applications. The core product is the Spouse Edition, which provides a questionnaire-based interface to complete USCIS forms, an interactive document checklist, and step-by-step filing instructions. An additional Removal of Condition Edition supports applicants who received conditional green cards. Both products are downloadable desktop applications compatible with Windows and Mac that work offline.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GreenCardHero: Spouse Edition: Desktop software designed to help applicants complete marriage-based green card applications filed from inside the U.S.
• GreenCardHero: Removal of Condition Edition

Products and services

• GreenCardHero: Spouse Edition Desktop immigration software that guides users through completing marriage green card application forms (I-130, I-130A, I-485, I-864, I-765, I-131, G-1145) via a personalized questionnaire, interactive document checklist, and step-by-step filing instructions; works offline on Windows and Mac and is intended for U.S. citizens and green card holders sponsoring a spouse's application.
• GreenCardHero: Removal of Condition Edition Desktop software designed for spouses of U.S. citizens who received a conditional (2-year) green card and need to file to remove conditions; guides users through the required forms and supporting documentation process for the joint petition to remove conditions.

Quantifiable outcome

• Trusted by over 2,500 applicants
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature6 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• CitizenPath: CitizenPath offers affordable, guided DIY software to help immigrants prepare USCIS forms across family-based, naturalization, and other immigration categories — directly comparable form-filling, questionnaire-based UX and price-band to GreenCardHero.
• Boundless: Boundless is an immigration-tech platform that provides software-guided application preparation plus optional attorney representation for marriage-based green cards, naturalization, and fiancé(e) visas — competing head-on with GreenCardHero's core marriage-green-card workflow.
• RapidVisa: RapidVisa provides online immigration software and document services primarily focused on marriage-based green cards and fiancé(e) visas — a direct, same-niche competitor with overlapping target customer and value proposition.
• SimpleCitizen: SimpleCitizen (now part of Boundless) built guided immigration software for marriage, family-based, and citizenship applications — same DIY-with-software model and same USCIS forms covered as GreenCardHero.
• FileRight: FileRight sells online immigration software to help applicants prepare USCIS applications across multiple visa categories without an attorney — directly comparable freemium/paid model and customer base.

Emerging players

• VisaJourney: VisaJourney is a long-running immigration community and resource site with related preparation tools — competes for the same marriage-based applicant audience via community-driven guidance rather than desktop software.

Broad incumbents

• LegalZoom: LegalZoom offers a broad legal document preparation and attorney services marketplace that includes immigration forms — a much larger incumbent with overlapping immigration offering but vastly wider portfolio and brand reach.
• Nolo: Nolo is an established legal-information and do-it-yourself legal forms publisher with an immigration section — analogous content-and-forms product for self-directed filers, though broader than immigration alone.

Others

• TurboTax (Intuit): TurboTax is the conceptual analog — a guided questionnaire that turns complex government forms into a self-serve consumer product. GreenCardHero's marketing and UX language explicitly invokes the 'TurboTax for green cards' comparison, making it the most frequently cited adjacent benchmark.

Regional players

• USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services): USCIS publishes the official forms and increasingly online filing tools that GreenCardHero helps applicants complete; it is both the source authority for the product content and a potential direct competitor if the agency expands its own guided filing experience.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/greencardhero-llc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about GreenCardHero