USCIS officer-style pre-filing review

You drafted your petition. See how an officer would read it, before you file

Upload the EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, or O-1A petition you prepared yourself, and CaseBuilder reviews it the way a USCIS adjudicator would. You get criterion-by-criterion verdicts, RFE-risk flags, the specific gaps, and concrete recommendations you can act on before you submit. It is an objective review of your draft. It does not rewrite your petition, it does not file for you, and no outcome is guaranteed.

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$149 (regular $199). A one-time review of your self-prepared draft. You act on the report; USCIS decides every case independently.

  • Reads your draft like an adjudicator
  • Documents not stored after analysis
  • You stay in control of your petition

An objective read of the petition you prepared, before USCIS reads it

When you self-prepare a petition, you lose the outside perspective that catches what an officer will question. Petition Review gives you that read. You upload the petition you drafted, and CaseBuilder evaluates it against the framework that actually governs your case: the Kazarian criteria for EB-1A, the Dhanasar prongs for EB-2 NIW, or the extraordinary-ability criteria for O-1A. It reports where your draft is strong, where it is thin, and where it is most likely to draw a Request for Evidence.

The output is a structured review report you act on yourself. It does not rewrite your petition, it does not build your filing package, it is not legal advice, and it does not predict or guarantee approval. What it does is show you, concretely and criterion by criterion, what an adjudicator is likely to see, so you can decide what to strengthen before you file.

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The gaps you cannot see are the ones an officer will

A self-prepared petition often reads well to its author and still leaves an adjudicator unconvinced on a specific criterion. A weak comparison, an unsupported claim, or a criterion argued but not evidenced is exactly what triggers a Request for Evidence. Seeing those weak points before you file is far cheaper than answering them after.

Criterion by criterion
each governing criterion gets its own verdict, not a single overall grade
RFE-risk flags
the review points to the areas most likely to draw a Request for Evidence
You decide
the report is yours to act on; you choose what to strengthen before filing

How Petition Review works

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Step 1 - Upload your draft

Add the petition you prepared yourself (EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, or O-1A), or, if you are answering a Request for Evidence, upload the RFE notice plus the response you drafted. CaseBuilder reads every document with OCR.

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Step 2 - Run the officer-style review

CaseBuilder reads your draft the way a USCIS adjudicator would, evaluating it against the framework that governs your case: Kazarian criteria, Dhanasar prongs, or O-1A criteria for a petition, or issue by issue against the RFE for a response.

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Step 3 - Read the report and decide next steps

You get a structured report: verdicts, gaps, and RFE-risk areas with concrete recommendations. You decide what to strengthen. If the review finds gaps you would rather have addressed for you, the full CaseBuilder package can build or strengthen it. The review does not file for you.

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A verdict on each criterion, not a single score

USCIS does not grade your petition as one number, and neither does this review. It reads each governing criterion on its own terms, tells you where your draft clearly meets it, where the support is thin, and where a criterion is argued but not yet evidenced. That is what tells you, precisely, what to strengthen before you file.

Criterion AWELL SUPPORTED

Your draft evidences this criterion clearly with documents an officer can follow

Criterion BRFE RISK

Argued but thinly evidenced, a likely area for a Request for Evidence as drafted

Criterion CGAP FLAGGED

Claimed in the petition but no supporting evidence found in your draft yet

Illustrative example. Your actual criteria, verdicts, and flagged gaps depend entirely on your own petition and the visa category you are filing under.

Two things Petition Review can review

Petition Review covers two inputs. Review a petition you drafted, or review a response you drafted to a Request for Evidence. Both come back as a structured report you act on before you file.

Mode 1 - Petition review

You upload the EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, or O-1A petition you prepared yourself. The review reads it as an adjudicator would and returns criterion-by-criterion verdicts, the specific gaps, RFE-risk flags, and concrete recommendations to strengthen the draft before you file.

Mode 2 - RFE response review

Already drafted a response to a Request for Evidence? You upload the RFE notice plus your drafted response, and the review judges your response issue by issue against the RFE: what is covered, what is weak, what is missing, and where a denial risk remains.

Want the response drafted from scratch rather than reviewed? That is a separate product. See RFE Response Drafting →

What the report contains

Overall verdict
a plain summary of where your draft stands as an adjudicator would read it
Criterion-by-criterion assessment
each governing criterion (or each RFE issue) reviewed on its own terms
Top strengths
the parts of your draft that already read as clearly established
Critical gaps
the specific places where support is missing or a claim is unevidenced
RFE-risk areas
the parts of the draft most likely to draw a Request for Evidence as written
Concrete recommendations
specific, actionable steps you can take to strengthen the draft before filing
Issue-by-issue read (RFE mode)
for an RFE response, what is covered, what is weak, what is missing, and where denial risk remains
Exportable report
a downloadable review you keep and act on; you decide what to change

What Petition Review is not

It does not rewrite your petition or build the package

Petition Review reads and assesses your draft. It does not rewrite it, does not assemble your filing package, and does not submit anything to USCIS. The report is yours to act on. If you want the petition built or strengthened for you, that is the full CaseBuilder package, arranged separately.

It is not legal advice or representation

CaseBuilder is document preparation software, not a law firm. Petition Review does not provide legal advice, does not create an attorney-client relationship, and is not a substitute for a licensed attorney. If you want a lawyer to review your petition, that is your decision and is arranged separately.

It does not predict or guarantee approval

No tool can guarantee an outcome, and this review makes no such promise. It does not calculate approval odds or predict a decision. It surfaces strengths, gaps, and RFE-risk areas so you can act on them. USCIS decides every case independently.

Who Petition Review is for

Petition Review is for people who prepared their own petition, or their own RFE response, and want an objective pre-filing read before they commit. If you have done the work yourself and want to know where you actually stand, this is built for you.

Self-preparers
you drafted your EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, or O-1A petition and want a second read before filing
RFE responders
you drafted a response to a Request for Evidence and want it judged before you send it
Careful filers
you want to find and fix the weak points yourself rather than answer them in an RFE later

See how your petition reads before you file it

Upload the petition or RFE response you drafted, and get a criterion-by-criterion review with gaps, RFE-risk flags, and recommendations. $149 (regular $199). You act on the report; USCIS decides every case independently.

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Petition Review: common questions

What is Petition Review?

Petition Review is a pre-filing review of a petition you have already drafted yourself. You upload your self-prepared EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, or O-1A petition, and CaseBuilder reads it the way a USCIS adjudicator would. It returns a structured review report: criterion-by-criterion verdicts, RFE-risk flags, specific gaps, and concrete recommendations you can act on before you file. It is a review of your draft, not a rewrite and not a filing.

Do you rewrite my petition or build the package for me?

No. Petition Review reads and assesses your draft; it does not rewrite your petition, does not build or assemble your filing package, and does not submit anything to USCIS. The output is a report you use to improve your own petition. If the review finds gaps you would rather have addressed for you, the full CaseBuilder package can build or strengthen the petition separately.

Can you review my RFE response too?

Yes. Petition Review has a second mode for people who have already drafted a response to a USCIS Request for Evidence. You upload the RFE notice plus your drafted response, and the review judges your response issue by issue against the RFE: what is covered, what is weak, what is missing, and where a denial risk remains. If you want the response drafted from scratch instead of reviewed, use the separate RFE Response Drafting product.

Can you guarantee my petition will be approved?

No. No software or attorney can guarantee an outcome, and USCIS decides every case independently. Petition Review does not predict or guarantee approval and does not calculate approval odds. It surfaces strengths, gaps, and RFE-risk areas in your draft so you can decide what to strengthen before filing. The decision always rests with USCIS.

Is this legal advice?

No. CaseBuilder is document preparation software, not a law firm, and Petition Review does not provide legal advice, legal representation, or an attorney-client relationship. It is an automated review of a draft you prepared. If you want a licensed attorney to review your petition, that is your decision and is arranged separately.

What do I get from a review?

You get a structured review report: an overall verdict, a criterion-by-criterion (or issue-by-issue, for an RFE response) assessment, your top strengths, the critical gaps, the areas most likely to draw an RFE, and concrete recommendations. The report is yours to act on. It does not change your petition for you; you decide what to do with it.

How is this different from the full package or the RFE drafting product?

Petition Review is an objective read of a draft you already prepared, priced as a standalone review. The full CaseBuilder package goes further: it helps build and strengthen the petition itself. The separate RFE Response Drafting product drafts a response to a Request for Evidence from scratch. Petition Review, by contrast, reviews a petition you drafted or a response you drafted, and tells you where it stands before you file.