What this is
A community-run tally of how H-1B extension petitions fared when the beneficiary had a prior arrest or charge on record. It exists because there is no public dataset on this, and people facing it are largely guessing.
What this is not
It is not legal advice, and it cannot tell you what will happen in your case. Adjudication turns on the specific charge, the specific disposition, the evidence filed, and the officer. Two people with the same checkbox answers can get opposite results for reasons this form cannot capture. Talk to an immigration attorney.
It is also not a random sample. Everyone here chose to report. Bad outcomes are more memorable and more likely to be submitted than routine approvals, so the approval rate shown is probably lower than the true rate. Treat every number as a rough signal about the community, not a base rate.
What is collected
Five multiple-choice answers and an optional year. That is the entire record — there is no free-text box anywhere on this site, deliberately. A comment field is the one place people accidentally identify themselves, and nothing here needs one.
Never collected:
- No name, email address, or account of any kind
- No employer name — only a broad category
- No receipt number, case number, court, or attorney
- No city, state, or service center
- No IP address is stored. Abuse limiting uses a salted hash on a salt that rotates every 24 hours, and those rows are deleted once they expire — so there is nothing to trace back to, even for us.
- No analytics, no third-party scripts, no cookies, no tracking pixels.
Why some numbers are hidden
This is the part that matters most, so here it is concretely. Suppose 31 people have responded, and the employer breakdown looks like this:
- FAANG / Big Tech — 12
- WITCH / IT Consulting — 10
- Product / Startup — 7
- Other — 2
That last line is dangerous. On its own it looks harmless, but read alongside the rest of the page it narrows to one person: "Other" employer, domestic charge, NOID, 2026. In a community where people know each other, that is not a statistic — it is someone's name, and it exposes a criminal charge they may never have told anyone about.
So the rule is: if fewer than 5 people gave an answer, the number is never printed. A striped bar appears instead. Five is the conventional floor for published statistics — small enough that real patterns still show, large enough that nobody is standing alone in a category.
Hiding the number is not sufficient by itself, because the overall total is public:
31 − 12 − 10 − 7 = 2 recovers it by subtraction. So whenever hiding one group
would leave it solvable, a second group is hidden too. There is never only one unknown
in the equation.
- Nothing at all is published until there are 10 responses. Below that, even a percentage points at individuals.
- Individual rows are never published or exported. Only totals ever leave the database.
- Open cases are counted apart from decided ones. A pending case adds to the response total but is excluded from every rate, so reporting early never drags the approval rate down.
- The number of published breakdowns is kept deliberately small. Every extra table slices the same people finer and gives anyone trying to re-identify a submitter one more equation to work with.
Your entry stays yours
On submission you get a private link containing a random token. It is the only way to reach your entry. We store only a one-way hash of it, so we cannot recover it, look your record up, or link it to you — and neither can anyone else. Use it to update your entry as your case moves, or to delete it permanently at any time, no questions and no email.
Because that link is the sole key, treat it like a password: don't paste it into the group chat. Anyone holding it can edit or delete that entry.
Nothing can remind you to come back. With no email address and no account, there is no way to reach you — that is the cost of real anonymity, and it is deliberate. The one thing this site can do is remember the link in your own browser, so returning on the same device offers it back to you. Clear your site data or switch devices and that goes away. Save the link yourself; it is the only durable copy.
Where it runs
On Cloudflare Workers and a Cloudflare D1 database. Cloudflare, as the network carrying the request, necessarily sees your IP address in transit the way any website's host does — this application simply never writes it down.