Published appeal decisions, narrowed to the ones like yours.
How to use it
Type what you are looking for, or pick a visa, a criterion and a field.
Open a decision: our summary, the criteria table, the official PDF.
Press Compare, and Case Matcher puts your file next to it.
What is in the library
6,586 classified
Thousands of separate PDFs
The AAO publishes its non-precedent decisions one file at a time. There is no way to filter them by visa, criterion or field.
The reasoning is buried
Which criteria were met, and which evidence the AAO accepted, sits in pages of text that nobody reads end to end.
Every claim is a guess
Without counting the whole library, what the AAO usually does is an impression. Each share here comes with its n.
Every decision here links to its official PDF. Nothing is paraphrased from memory.
A chatbot will tell you what the AAO usually says. Here every line points to a published decision and its official PDF.
The shares on the Stats page are counted over the whole library, each with its n. A chatbot guesses.
Case Matcher reads your own file next to a decision, so the comparison is about your evidence, not a general impression.
Search published AAO decisions and narrow them by visa, outcome, petitioner type, criterion, field and year.
Our summary of each decision, its criteria table and a link to the official PDF.
Open Case Matcher from any decision and read your own file next to it.
An example
Example decision (fictional)
A software engineer claimed judging, original contributions and a leading role. The AAO accepted the judging evidence and found the other two described only by the employer.
Our summary, the criteria table and the official PDF sit on one page.
Questions
Non-precedent decisions the Administrative Appeals Office has published on uscis.gov, for EB-1A, EB-2 NIW and O-1A. We add the new ones as they appear.
No. The shares are appeal outcomes: appeals of petitions USCIS had already denied. They are not approval odds for new petitions, and nothing here predicts your case.
We do, in our own words, from the decision text. The official PDF is always one click away; read it before you rely on a summary.
No. Merito is not a law firm. A published decision describes one case; talk to your attorney about yours.
Yes, with no account. Case Matcher, the next step, needs one.
Appeal outcomes, not approval odds. A published decision describes one case.
