About

About This Tool

This is a personal learning project. It explains the U.S. employment-based (EB) and family-based green card process in plain English, so you can understand where you sit and what happens next without wading through legal text. I built it for myself and figured others might find it useful too.

1What It Does

  • Check where you stand. Answer a few questions and get a read on your place in the queue and a realistic timeline.
  • Visa Timeline Explorer. Pick a green card category (EB-1 through EB-5, or family F1 to F4) or a work visa (H-1B, L-1, O-1, F-1/OPT, TN) and see the timelines and rules that apply to it.
  • Read the live Visa Bulletin. Paste the table or drop the PDF and the tool reads your cutoff dates back in plain English. It never fetches the government pages for you.
  • Estimate the waits that matter. Consular stamping and immigrant-visa interview waits, with a pointer to exactly which line on the official page to read.
  • Internal Move Impact Matrix. See how a promotion, a team change, a relocation, or an employer-entity switch could affect a PERM that is already in progress.
  • Next steps by stage. Short, specific guidance for wherever you are, from before PERM through I-140 and I-485.
  • Glossary and resources. Plain definitions of the acronyms, plus links to the official government pages and reputable law-firm write-ups if you want to go deeper.

2Why I Built It

The official pages are the source of truth, but they are hard to actually use. The USCIS site, the State Department Visa Bulletin, and the Department of Labor pages are dense, they change every month, and they block automated tools, so most people never really read them for their own case.

On top of that, the timelines are confusing and genuinely stressful, and everyday decisions can quietly change your case. A routine internal move can reset a PERM in ways that are not obvious until it is too late. I wanted one place that turns the raw numbers into plain English, keeps everything private, and does not ask you to log in or hand over your details.

3What It Is Not

  • Not legal advice.
  • Not official Amazon guidance.
  • Not affiliated with USCIS, the State Department, or the Department of Labor.
  • It does not store or transmit anything you enter.
  • It will not give you a case-specific legal opinion.
For your own case
Verify everything against the official sources (uscis.gov, travel.state.gov, flag.dol.gov) and talk to a licensed immigration attorney. Amazon employees should rely on Amazon’s internal immigration resources and their assigned counsel.

4Your Privacy

Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you type is saved or sent anywhere, and closing or refreshing the page clears it. The page loads a community-chatter snapshot published with each update, and a cookieless analytics counter that records anonymous, aggregate page views and a few fixed button events so the tool can be improved. Neither one ever receives anything you typed. See the Privacy & Disclosure note for details.

Nothing here is legal advice or official Amazon guidance. Immigration rules and dates change constantly, so always confirm against the official sources and consult a licensed immigration attorney for your own case.