It connects to what your firm already uses

An immigration file already lives in too many places. The point of these connections is to reduce that number, not to add a settings page nobody opens.

Each one does a specific job, and each one writes back to the case so the record stays complete.

Two things that are part of Meridian rather than a connection to somebody else, because they matter more than most integrations:

• Signing. Signet is built in. No third party account, no fee per signature, and a public verifier anyone can use.
• The IRCC portals. The AutoFile extension fills IRCC's online portal pages from the case file, page by page as each one is mapped. No federal system offers a real integration, so this is the honest way to do it.

A long logo wall is easy to build and tells you almost nothing. Four questions separate a working connection from a screenshot.

• Does it write back? A link that opens another app is not an integration. Ask whether the meeting, the email or the event lands on the case record afterwards.
• Who authorises it? A connection that one staff member signs in with breaks the day that person leaves. Ask how it is connected at the firm level.
• What happens to client data? Every connection moves information somewhere. Ask which sub-processor is involved and where it sits. Ours are listed publicly.
• What breaks if you turn it off? If the answer is anything more than convenience, the product is leaning on somebody else for something it should own.

That last question is why signing and the IRCC portals are ours rather than a partnership. They are too central to the work to depend on another company staying in business.