Founder story
My name is Martin. In 2021, I moved to the United States to pursue my master's degree. After graduating, I landed a role as a Senior Data Scientist at a Fortune 500 company — but I quickly ran into a wall that many immigrants know all too well: securing permanent residency in the U.S. is incredibly difficult.
With employer sponsorships drying up due to widespread layoffs, I had to explore self-petition routes. That led me to two pathways: the EB2 National Interest Waiver (NIW) and the EB1A Extraordinary Ability visa.
Unable to afford an attorney, I taught myself the process from scratch — reading through USCIS policy manuals, AAO decisions, and every resource I could find. In January 2024, I successfully got my NIW petition approved. But the long priority date queue pushed me toward the EB1A, which sent me even deeper into research mode.
Over time, I read more than 1,000 USCIS Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) decisions. I started noticing patterns — what officers look for, what arguments succeed, what gets denied and why. That knowledge felt too valuable to keep to myself.
That's why I built Case Reviewer.
Case Reviewer is a structured, searchable database of over 13,000 AAO appeal decisions covering employment-based immigration petitions, updated monthly from official AAO records. It's used by both attorneys and self-petitioners to build stronger cases, respond to RFEs, and challenge denials.
Don't wait for an RFE or denial to learn what USCIS wants. Search decisions by visa type — H-1B, EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, EB-1C, O-1, EB-1B — to reverse-engineer winning evidence strategies before you file. See exactly what evidence officers accepted and why. For H-1B wage levels by employer and title, pair this with the H-1B salary database.
See where USCIS is pushing back hardest across all visa categories. Case Reviewer tracks the top RFE grounds from recent decisions — specialty occupation, extraordinary ability criteria, national importance, and more — so you know what to address head-on.
Find cases where petitioners in similar situations won on appeal, and understand why. Case Reviewer surfaces the most common reasons officers get it wrong — adding unlisted requirements, dismissing evidence without explanation, applying the wrong legal standard — so you can build a sharper argument.
Every decision is translated from dense legal reasoning into plain English: what happened, what evidence worked, what failed, and the key strategic takeaway. No law degree required.
For EB-1A and O-1 cases, each of the ten evidentiary criteria is tracked individually — whether it was addressed, whether the officer found it met, and whether the AAO reversed the original finding.
An interactive dashboard surfaces patterns across the full database — reversal rates by visa type, the most cited legal errors, how evidence weight shifts outcomes, and more. Dense legal data, made human.
I built Case Reviewer because I lived this process — confused, alone, and unable to afford the help I needed. No one should have to read through thousands of legal documents just to understand their own case. If this tool saves you even a fraction of the time and uncertainty it took me to get here, it's worth it.