Editorial standards
MyCheck writes about immigration because the people who use it are going through it. Immigration information is worth very little if it is wrong, so this page says plainly who writes these articles, how they are made, and what to do when one of them is out of date.
Who writes them
Articles are published by the MyCheck Editorial Team, the team that builds MyCheck. We are not attorneys and nobody on the team is an accredited representative. Nothing on this site is legal advice, and no article is reviewed by a lawyer. For advice about your own case, talk to an immigration attorney or a representative accredited by the Department of Justice.
How topics are chosen
We write about the things MyCheck users are already dealing with: what a case status message means, which documents a form needs, what a Visa Bulletin movement changes, what happens after an approval. If a topic cannot help someone act on their own case, we would rather not publish it.
Primary sources come first
Rules, fees, forms, processing times and cut-off dates come from the agency that sets them — mainly USCIS and the U.S. Department of State, plus the Federal Register when a rule changes. Where an article relies on one of these, it links to the exact page under “About this article”, so you can check it yourself rather than take our word for it.
How AI is used
Articles are drafted with AI assistance and published by the editorial team. AI is used to draft and structure an article; it is not used to decide what is true. Anything an article states about a rule, a fee or a deadline is meant to trace back to the official page linked in that article.
What we never publish
No predictions about how your case will be decided. No processing times other than the figures USCIS itself publishes. No invented statistics, and no claim that MyCheck matches the work of a lawyer. When we do not know something, the article says so.
Updating and reviewing
Immigration rules change, so an article is only as good as its last check. New articles are published at a deliberate pace — three a week — rather than daily, because volume is not the point. Articles that have been checked against their sources show a “Sources checked” date next to the byline. We are working back through older articles, correcting what is out of date and removing what should not have been published.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it or take it down. Contact support with the article and what is wrong, and we will correct the article and update its date.