About USVISA.com

Our mission

U.S. immigration rules are spread across many agencies, forms and policy updates, and they change often. Our goal is simple: help people understand their options and next steps, in plain language, without charging them for it. We want readers to arrive at an official website or an attorney's office better prepared, with clearer questions and fewer surprises.

What we do

• Explain the system. We publish guides on work visas, green cards, family immigration, study and travel, investment and business immigration, humanitarian protection and settling in the United States. Browse them in our resource library.
• Point to the official source. Our guides link to the government pages they rely on, such as USCIS, the U.S. Department of State and the Department of Labor, so you can check the rules yourself.
• Offer free tools. Calculators and checklists help you organize dates, fees and documents. See our free tools.
• Track changes. We follow policy changes and summarize them on our policy tracker and in our email updates.
• Help you reach an attorney if you want one. Through our "Need a lawyer? Email us" form, you can describe your situation and we pass your message to the participating attorney or attorneys you choose.

What we don't do

• We are not affiliated with USCIS, the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security or any other government agency.
• We are not a law firm and do not give legal advice. Using the site or our form does not create an attorney-client relationship.
• We do not take visa or green card applications, collect government fees, book consular or biometrics appointments, or submit Diversity Visa lottery entries.
• We never ask for your passport number, A-number, Social Security number or bank details.
• We do not promise results. No website or attorney can guarantee a visa, green card or case outcome.

How we make money

USVISA.com is free to read and free to use. The site is funded by immigration attorneys who pay to advertise here. When you use our form, you choose whether and to whom your message is sent, and you decide whether to hire anyone. Attorneys set their own fees, and those fees are between you and the attorney.

Advertising does not buy coverage, favorable mentions or changes to our guides. Advertising is labeled, and it is kept separate from our editorial content. For details, read our advertising disclosure and editorial standards.

Our principles

Plain language

We write for people, not for lawyers. We answer the main question first, define legal terms when we use them, and avoid hype and fear.

Official sources first

We build our guides on primary sources: agency websites, the Federal Register, regulations, statutes and official forms and instructions. We link to them so you can verify what we say.

Dated and reviewed

Every guide shows the date it was last updated. Immigration fees, processing times and policies change, so we say "as of" a specific date for anything that moves. Legal guides show a named reviewer once they have been reviewed by an attorney.

Independent

Our editorial decisions are our own. Advertisers do not review, approve or edit our guides before publication.

Accountable

When we get something wrong, we fix it and say so. See our corrections policy.

Languages

USVISA.com is available in English and Spanish. Government forms and official notices are usually in English, so our Spanish pages keep the official English names of forms and programs alongside the explanation. If the English and Spanish versions of a page ever differ, please let us know.

Contact us

Questions, ideas or corrections are welcome. Write to info@usvisa.com or use our contact page.