FormGuard
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For immigration practices & legal-aid clinics

A second set of eyes on
every filing you send.

FormGuard runs an automated pre-filing check on completed USCIS forms — edition dates, blank required fields, signature defects, date logic and name consistency across pages — so mechanical errors get caught in your office instead of in a Request for Evidence.

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Volume plans from $99/month · Cancel anytime · No per-check payment step

The problem

Rejections are almost never about the law.

They are about a superseded edition date, an unsigned page, a blank item that should have read "N/A", a date written the wrong way round, or a name spelled two ways across a package. Every one of those is catchable in seconds — and every one of them costs your office a re-file, a client conversation, and weeks of case time.

01

Manual QA doesn't scale

A careful second read takes 20–40 minutes per package. When volume spikes, it's the first thing that gets skipped — and that's exactly when errors get through.

02

Editions move without warning

USCIS revises forms and retires prior editions on its own schedule. A package assembled from a template folder three months ago can be stale on the day it ships.

03

The cost lands on you

A rejection means re-preparation, a re-filed fee, an anxious client, and in adjustment cases a real risk to work authorization timing. None of it is billable.

How it fits your workflow

One upload, before the package ships.

It sits at the end of your existing process. Nothing to install, no integration work, no change to how you prepare.

Upload the completed form

A filled PDF or a scan. Your preparer or paralegal drops it in when the package is assembled.

Automated check runs

The form is verified against a research-backed checklist for that specific form — required items, signature blocks, date-risk fields, current edition, and USCIS's own stated rejection triggers.

Reviewer-format report

Defects come back keyed to part and item number with the problem and the fix, so a reviewer can action the list directly rather than hunting for what changed.

You make the call

Every finding is a flag for a human, not an instruction. The supervising attorney or accredited representative signs off, exactly as they do now.

Scope, stated plainly

A quality-control tool. Not a legal one.

We are explicit about this because it is the thing that matters most to a practice evaluating an outside tool.

What it does
Detects mechanical filing defects: wrong or superseded form edition, blank required fields, missing or improper signatures, date-format and date-logic problems, name and A-Number inconsistency across pages, and items USCIS names as rejection triggers.
What it doesn't
Assess eligibility, choose a form or strategy, evaluate the merits of a case, interpret discretionary factors, or give legal advice of any kind.
Who stays responsible
You do. FormGuard is not a law firm and does not practise law. The supervising attorney or BIA-accredited representative remains responsible for the filing, the same as with any internal checklist or docketing tool.
Honest limits
It is a detector, not a guarantee. It will not catch substantive problems, and it can occasionally flag something that is correct in context — which is why a reviewer stays in the loop and why every finding cites the part and item it came from.

Client confidentiality

The form is never stored.

Digital PDFs never leave the browser

For a digitally filled form, the text layer is extracted on your machine and only that text is sent for analysis. The file itself never reaches our servers.

Scans are held in memory only

A scanned or photographed form is analysed in memory and discarded. There is no image retention, by design — not a policy we could quietly change, an architectural constraint.

Reports are de-identified

Stored findings describe defects by field label and never quote entered values. Residual A-Numbers and SSNs are masked before anything is written down.

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Pricing

Priced per office, not per form.

Consumer checks are $39 each. Firm plans replace that with a monthly allowance and no payment step in the workflow — your team just uploads.

Solo
$99/mo
25 checks per month
  • All 12 checklist-backed forms
  • Defects keyed to part & item number
  • No per-check payment step
  • Live allowance counter
  • Email support
  • Checklist requests
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Most practices
Practice
$249/mo
100 checks per month
  • Everything in Solo
  • Priority checklist requests for forms you file in volume
  • Named contact for disputed findings
  • Accuracy harness results on request
  • Overage at $2/check, never auto-charged
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Clinic & legal aid
Reduced
Nonprofit & BIA-accredited orgs
  • Discounted rate for recognised organisations
  • Volume sized to your caseload
  • Onboarding for accredited representatives
  • Annual billing available
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All plans are month-to-month and can be cancelled at any time · Annual billing available at two months free
Covered by the same 30-day money-back guarantee as the consumer product.

Early access

We're onboarding our first cohort of firms.

FormGuard has been running as a consumer product; the firm plans are new. We're deliberately starting with a small number of practices so we can add the checklists you actually need and fix what doesn't fit a real caseload. Tell us how you file and we'll come back to you personally — usually within two business days.

We'll only use this to talk to you about FormGuard for Firms. No newsletter, no list rental. Prefer email? Write to firms@uscisformcheck.com.

Questions

What firms ask first

No. FormGuard is a quality-control tool, not a legal service. It does not provide legal advice, does not select forms or strategy, and does not replace review by a licensed attorney or accredited representative. The supervising attorney or representative remains responsible for the filing. It is designed to catch mechanical defects — wrong form edition, blank required fields, signature problems, date-format and name-consistency errors — so your reviewer's time goes to the substantive parts of the case.
The uploaded form is never stored on our servers. For digitally filled PDFs the file never leaves the browser at all — only the extracted text is sent for analysis. For scans and photos the image is held in memory during analysis and discarded. The report we retain is de-identified: issues are described by field label and never quote the applicant's entered values, and residual A-Numbers and SSNs are masked before storage. The full detail is in our privacy policy.
FormGuard runs on any USCIS form and carries a research-verified, form-specific checklist for the 12 most-filed ones: I-485, I-130, I-765, I-131, N-400, I-90, I-751, I-140, I-539, N-600, I-129F and I-129. Forms outside that set are reviewed against general USCIS filing requirements rather than a form-specific checklist. If your practice files something else in volume, tell us — checklists are added on request for firm customers.
A monthly check allowance instead of per-form payment, a reviewer-format report that lists defects by part and item number for fast action, no per-check payment step interrupting your workflow, and a named contact for checklist requests and disputed findings. Firm plans are billed monthly and can be cancelled at any time.
FormGuard is tested against a 36-document synthetic test set with 92 planted errors and published ground truth; the harness reports catch rate, false positives and run-to-run variance. We'll share current figures with any firm evaluating the tool — including what it misses. It is a defect detector, not an approval guarantee: it will not catch substantive eligibility problems, and it can flag items that turn out to be correct in context. That is why a human reviewer stays in the loop.
Yes — and you don't need to talk to us first. The consumer product gives a free issue count and risk level on any form with no sign-up, so you can run a package you've already filed and see whether the findings match what you'd expect. If you want to evaluate the full reviewer-format report across several real filings, say so in the form above and we'll set that up.
No. FormGuard is a private, independent service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services or any U.S. government agency. We do not file applications or collect government fees. The official government website is uscis.gov.

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