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Affidavit Of Support Checklist
Use this checklist to review income, tax, joint sponsor, and household evidence.
Open guideAsylum Evidence Checklist
Use this checklist to organize personal declarations, country evidence, and witness materials.
Open guideImmigration Bond Hearing Checklist
Use this checklist to prepare sponsor, address, equities, and custody evidence.
Open guideImmigration Case Delay Log
Use this checklist to track receipts, service requests, inquiries, and agency responses.
Open guideConsular Interview Checklist
Use this checklist to prepare civil documents, police certificates, DS forms, and interview notes.
Open guideImmigration Lawyer Consultation Checklist
Use this checklist to prepare a concise first meeting with an immigration attorney.
Open guideImmigration FOIA Records Checklist
Use this checklist to request and organize USCIS, EOIR, ICE, or CBP file history.
Open guideGreen Card Interview Checklist
Use this checklist to prepare relationship, identity, and admissibility records.
Open guideImmigration Court Checklist
Use this checklist to track NTA allegations, hearings, filings, and relief applications.
Open guideNaturalization Interview Checklist
Use this checklist to review N-400 answers, trips, taxes, and criminal history.
Open guideNOID Response Checklist
Use this checklist to map denial concerns to evidence and legal arguments.
Open guideNotario Fraud Repair Checklist
Use this checklist to collect bad filings, receipts, communications, and complaint options.
Open guideRFE Response Checklist
Use this checklist to organize a complete response before the deadline.
Open guideUSCIS Forms Packet Checklist
Use this checklist to check signatures, fees, translations, photos, and evidence tabs.
Open guideWaiver Hardship Checklist
Use this checklist to organize qualifying relative, medical, financial, country, and family hardship evidence.
Open guideHow to use the checklists
The checklist library is built for people who already have records, notices, deadlines, or scattered documents. It helps turn a messy file into a focused consultation outline.
Checklist rules
- Do not guess dates when a receipt, I-94, notice, or passport stamp can verify them.
- Keep copies of every filing and delivery confirmation.
- Separate private facts from general questions before emailing anyone.
- Use a licensed attorney or accredited representative when a checklist reveals risk.
Privacy-first workflow
These worksheets should stay private. Redact A-numbers, passport numbers, birth dates, addresses, medical facts, criminal records, and asylum details before sharing a summary outside a clearly authorized professional relationship.
What to verify
A checklist is strongest when it forces the reader to slow down and verify facts. Future versions can add printable worksheets, intake-consent wording, and separate checklists for urgent court, detention, waiver, consular, and employment-visa files.
Staying current
The next pass can turn the most-used checklists into downloadable worksheets or interactive forms, but only after consent, privacy, and data-sharing language are written clearly. For now, the static checklist format keeps the site simple and low-risk. The checklists also create natural internal links from problem pages to preparation pages, which helps visitors take a next step without forcing a lead form or collecting private facts too early.
How to use this checklist
Turn Tools into a reviewable file
Use one folder for source documents and a separate working copy for notes. Number each item, write the date and issuing organization in a simple index, and keep every page of a notice or filing together. A checkbox should mean the document is present and readable, not that the legal requirement has been satisfied.
Three passes before a consultation or filing
- Completeness: compare the file with the current notice, form instructions, court order, or consular checklist. Flag missing pages, signatures, translations, and dates.
- Consistency: compare names, addresses, entries, exits, family relationships, employment, arrests, and prior answers across the record. Do not silently “fix” a conflict; mark it for review.
- Delivery: confirm the filing channel, address, deadline, fee, copy requirements, and proof of delivery. Save the exact version submitted.
Protect the file
Redact unnecessary account numbers from working notes. Do not email passports, A-numbers, medical records, abuse details, financial records, or criminal documents until you have verified who receives them and how the office protects them. Keep originals unless the governing instruction specifically requires otherwise.
What this checklist cannot decide
The checklist does not decide eligibility, credibility, admissibility, jurisdiction, strategy, or whether a waiver, motion, appeal, or different form is available. Use it to expose missing facts and prepare narrower questions for an authorized professional.
Check before use
Open the current official instruction
Official starting points checked November 2, 2026.
Consultation notes
Questions to record before you act
- What document, agency, and deadline control the immediate decision?
- Which facts are confirmed by records, and which facts remain uncertain?
- What changed since the last filing, entry, interview, hearing, or decision?
- Which form, fee, filing address, court procedure, or consular instruction must be checked again?
- What work would a lawyer or accredited representative include, and what would be outside the written scope?
Write the answers beside the source document. This keeps the consultation focused and makes it easier to compare later advice with the actual record.