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No. Merito is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice, represent you before USCIS, or predict approval odds. It's a self-serve readiness review meant to be used alongside — not instead of — a licensed immigration attorney.

No. Merito never states or implies an approval probability. It shows you how your case reads against the published criteria and where an officer might raise questions, framed as a readiness review, not a prediction.

EB-1A (extraordinary ability), O-1A (extraordinary ability nonimmigrant), and EB-2 NIW (national interest waiver) petitioners.

The free tools (Merito Score, RFE Decoder, Pathway Navigator, Citation Quick-Check, Radar Lite, Checklist Generator) work standalone, with no account and no Case File required. The Pro tools (Officer Simulator, Case Canvas, Merito Audit, RFE Studio, and others) work against your structured Case File and are included or credit-metered depending on your plan.

Each paid plan includes a set number of credits per month, spent when you run a credit-metered tool. Running out doesn't lock your account — you can purchase additional credits separately.

Yes — manage or cancel your subscription anytime from Settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period; you won't be charged again after that.

Your files are stored in private, access-controlled storage tied to your account. Tools never read your raw documents directly — they read a structured summary built once from your files. You can delete your account and all associated data at any time from Settings.

No. Your documents and case data are never used to train AI models — see the encryption and no-training-use section above for the full policy.

Yes — every user's data is isolated at the database level, not just by application logic, so a bug in one page can't leak another user's case.

Every file is validated by its actual content, not just its filename or claimed file type, before it's processed.

Every AI call is logged and cost-tracked, and an automatic circuit breaker halts AI-consuming tools if usage ever spikes unexpectedly, rather than letting it run unattended.

Your account enters a 14-day grace period you can cancel from Settings; after that, an administrator reviews the request before your account and case content are permanently deleted. We keep only what the law requires (financial records) and de-identified aggregate statistics — never your case content.

By default, no one but you. Your case data is isolated at the database level, not just gated by application code — it isn't visible to other users, and there's no dashboard where staff casually browse case content. If you want your attorney to see it, you create a specific, read-only Attorney View share link yourself; nothing is shared automatically, and your attorney doesn't need a Merito account to open it. Running an analysis tool sends only the relevant part of your structured Case File to our AI processing provider, Anthropic, solely to generate that result — under an agreement that it's never used to train their models. A narrow, logged admin access path exists for account support and security work; it isn't a standing window into your case.

Yes to both. Every case dashboard lets you export a full PDF of your Case File, Portfolio, or Binder whenever you want — exports are included on every paid plan (a trialing account unlocks them the moment its plan starts, same as the rest of the trial). To delete data instead, go to Settings: account deletion opens a 14-day grace period you can cancel, then an administrator reviews the request before your account and case content are permanently removed. We keep only what the law requires (financial records) and de-identified aggregate statistics — never your case content.