'Couple' App Being Used By Immigrants, Significant Others To Petition For Green Cards

Immigrants are now using the new mobile app "Couple" to help secure a green card for their spouses who are living abroad. Shutterstock.com

Green cards are hard to acquire, but like most things in life, there's an app for it! Well...kinda. A new mobile app aptly named "Couple" is helping couples expedite the long and onerous green card process. U.S. citizens have discovered that the petition process to bring their spouse or fiancé to live in the United States as a green card holder is nearly impossible. Some of these green card petitions are systemically denied due to lack evidence proving the legitimacy of their romantic relationship. So where exactly does a mobile app enter into the green card equation? Well, quite seamlessly, when couples use the "Couple" app it provides them with a documented and validated digital timeline of their relationship.

The app boasts that couples can now "share everything," giving long distances couples with a easy way to "collect all of those special little moments with the most important person in your life, in one app." The app, according to the Huffington Post, acts as a social network, but a private one for couples. "Couple" allow partners to "exchange text messages, photos, videos and sketches." A couple can even "kiss" using this new mobile app, however the kiss takes place with your thumbs, each partner can press their thumbs against the screen of their separate phones at the same time, leaving a thumb print and making their phones vibrate.

On the "Couple" website, where you and your significant other can download the new mobile app for free, they highlight an incredibly important feature for immigrants. "Save every moment," the website reads, the app lets couples "save all the precious little moments between the two of you." "All of your memories and all of the things that you share with your partner are all in one place," Oleg Kostour, co-founder of the Couple app, told VOXXI. "That's why it has been very useful for these couples that have been trying to use it as proof of their relationship."

Kostour also stated that in the past few months, dozens of users have reached out to the Couple app, asking for a data file of their "Couple" timeline history because they want to include it with their green card petitions.