COMPARISON
MyCheck vs the USCIS website
Case Status Online is the official USCIS tool. You look a case up with its receipt number, and a free myUSCIS account adds automatic updates and more of your case history.
Use both. USCIS is the source of truth and nothing replaces it — MyCheck reads the same status and turns it into what to do next, with the documents, deadlines and reminders around it.
Choose MyCheck if
- You know the status and want to know what to do about it.
- You are gathering documents against a deadline and want reminders.
- Someone else — a spouse, a parent, an attorney — is helping you and needs the same list.
- You would rather read it in one of 13 languages than in English.
Choose the USCIS website if
- You need the official record, or to do something official: upload evidence, change your address, send a secure message.
- Your case is a form type no tracker models well.
- You want it to cost nothing at all.
What the USCIS website does better
- It is the official record. Every status MyCheck shows comes from USCIS in the first place.
- It is free, for everything it does.
- Only your USCIS account can do official things: upload evidence, change your address, send a secure message, or ask about a case outside normal processing time.
- It covers every form type USCIS handles, including ones no tracker models well.
What MyCheck does better
- A checklist for what the status means you should do next, not just the sentence itself.
- Reminders on a whole checklist or a single item, and a Today view of what is due.
- Checklists you can share, so a spouse or an attorney can work the same list with you.
- The app is in 13 languages; the status text on the USCIS site is not.
- You can ask ChatGPT, Claude or Grok to build the list and it lands in your account.
- Everything else you are keeping track of lives in the same place, immigration or not.
Side by side
| What you want to do | MyCheck | USCIS website |
|---|---|---|
| Look up a case status | Yes, with the same receipt number | Yes — this is the official source |
| Automatic updates when the status changes | Yes, in the notification centre and by email if you turn it on | Yes, by email or text with a free myUSCIS account |
| See past case history | Yes, the updates MyCheck has seen since you added the case | Yes, including your recent actions on the case |
| Track more than one case at once | One case free, every case on Premium ($9.99/month) | Yes, cases filed under your account |
| Know what to do about the status | A checklist per status, with due dates and reminders | The status text and official guidance pages |
| Upload evidence, change address, message USCIS | No — that has to happen on your USCIS account | Yes |
| Work a list with your spouse or attorney | Yes, shared checklists (Premium to host, free to join) | No |
| Reminders before a deadline | Yes, on a whole list or a single item | No |
| See what is due today | Yes, the Today view | No |
| Tick items off and watch the progress | Yes | No |
| Track a case you did not file yourself, like a relative’s | Yes, any receipt number | Only cases filed under that account |
| An app on your phone | iPhone, Android and the web | No case-status app — the website in a mobile browser |
| Keep lists that are not immigration | Yes: a move, a renewal, school, work | No |
| Ask other applicants a question | Yes, the MyCheck Community — and the app can translate a post into your language | No |
| Read it in your own language | The app is in 13 languages | The case status page is in English |
| Save a checklist by asking ChatGPT, Claude or Grok | Yes, on the free plan | Not on their site |
| Cost | Free for one case and 3 checklists; $9.99/month for unlimited | Free |
Try MyCheck free
One case, three checklists and reminders are free, on the web and in the app. No card to start.
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