Visa factory. Dry, boring, degrading. But stable. - Assistant Paralegal I Fragomen Employee Review

2.0
2 May 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Stable, pretty damn easy if you can write at all, decent benefits, and most of the time the hours are just 8:30-5.

Cons

It's incredibly dry, boring, repetitive, mindless work. Your entire job is just to apply various cumbersome and detailed policies to the cases you are working on. Fill out forms, fill in blanks in form letters, and describe jobs the way the USCIS wants to hear you describe them. It sort of feels like the movie "office space."Also, they try to hire in temps who are naive enough not to negotiate. Make sure you negotiate at every opportunity. If they want to hire you after you temped, then you're valuable to them, so don't be afraid to push through a few rounds of awkward negotiation to get more money.

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Cons

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Pros

Decent overtime pay. I also had a decent training/onboarding experience, but this was not the norm.

Cons

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