CaseTrends

About

What CaseTrends does

Last updated: 2026-04-16

F2A (Family-based Second Preference) immigration cases can take years. The official USCIS tracker tells you where your case is — it does not tell you whether your timeline is normal, what the Visa Bulletin means for you, or what other applicants at your stage are reporting. Applicants end up browsing Reddit for hours, piecing together a picture.

CaseTrends does that reading for you. It reads public posts from r/USCIS_F2A and the official Department of State Visa Bulletin, matches them against the details of your case, and returns a grounded brief on timing, visa availability, risk signals, and the most common next step.

How it works

  • Ingest. A daily job reads public Reddit posts via the official Data API and USCIS Visa Bulletin pages. Nothing is scraped from gated or private content.
  • Extract. A language model (Anthropic Claude) extracts structured fields from each post — filing date, stage, milestones — at read time. We do not train models on this content.
  • Match. When you run an analysis, CaseTrends finds the closest peer reports using a weighted similarity score, injects the deterministic Visa Bulletin facts for your chargeability, and returns a community outlook with a confidence rating.
  • Attribute. Every supporting discussion card links back to the original Reddit thread. Reddit-sourced content is purged within 48 hours of deletion upstream.

What we don't do

  • We don't provide legal advice. CaseTrends is an informational tool, not a law firm.
  • We don't have access to your USCIS case file or to any government system.
  • We don't train AI models on Reddit content or on your submitted case data.
  • We don't sell your data or run behavioral ads.

Who it's for

  • F2A applicants in active processing (consular/NVC or AOS/I-485).
  • Immigration attorneys and paralegals tracking multiple cases.
  • U.S. citizen or LPR family members monitoring progress.

Get in touch

Feedback, press, partnership inquiries, and content-removal requests all go through our contact form. Our data practices are documented in the privacy policy; the rules for using the site are in the terms of use.