Visa-Port

Problem

Visa-Port is a Lebanese visa and immigration agency in Saida, filing applications since 1995: three decades of paper files, walk-in applicants and partner agencies phoning in requests. Growth meant more staff, not more capacity.

The brief: put the whole operation online, applicants, documents, payments and partner agencies, without losing the personal service the agency is known for. It became three deliverables on one platform.

Deliverables

1. visa-port.com: public website Static multilingual site (English, Arabic, French, Spanish): destination picker, services, and the application start that leads into the portal. Hosted by Devign.
2. portal.visa-port.com: agency portal and white-label terminal Next.js 16 front end and Laravel 13 API: application tracking, three-layer OCR + MRZ passport check, per-field applicant chat, invoicing with Stripe, Whish, bank transfer and cash, partner sub-agencies with branded applicant portals; three plans quoted on request with a 14-day trial.
3. Visa Port: Android app Expo SDK 54 / React Native 0.81: start an application, scan a passport with the camera, upload documents, chat with an advisor, track status. On Google Play as com.devign.visaport since April 2026.

What we built

• Passport verification in three layers: a client-side aspect and face check, server-side colour entropy, then Tesseract MRZ reading with a multilingual keyword match, so a bad scan is caught before an advisor sees it.
• Applications and documents: tracking across 250 countries, 90+ visa types and 18 categories (the portal's own catalogue), document upload, and applicant chat per field.
• Payments: invoicing with Stripe, Whish, bank transfer and cash.
• White-label B2B engine: partner sub-agencies run branded applicant portals on the same terminal; three plans quoted on request, each with a 14-day trial.
• Public website: visa-port.com in English, Arabic, French and Spanish, with a destination picker and the application start.
• Android app: Expo SDK 54 / React Native 0.81; camera passport scan with automatic field extraction, uploads, advisor chat and status tracking.
• Data: hosted on Devign's server in Germany; passport numbers encrypted at rest, as the portal's FAQ states.

Outcome

• Live at visa-port.com (footer “Powered by devignlb.com”) and portal.visa-port.com (header “Visa Port × Devign”); the Android app is on Google Play as com.devign.visaport, released 21 April 2026.
• The client's own published figures: 30 years in Lebanon, 250 countries filed, 12k+ travellers served, 97% approval rate: theirs, not ours.
• The portal is a multi-agency product: Devign holds the Play listing and the support email, and other agencies can be onboarded on it.

Verifiable facts only: no estimates.