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.
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.