What's free with CaseWhy, and what's Plus

Short answer: CaseWhy's free tier is real: three tracked cases, a full status timeline, a plain-language explanation of what your status means, an email and push notification the moment it changes, and all six Get Help directories, Processing Times, the Visa Bulletin, and News — free, most of it with no account at all, no ads, no catch. CaseWhy Plus adds the parts that cost real money to run per question, so the rest can stay free for good.

What's free, no account needed

Processing Times, the Visa Bulletin, News, and all six Get Help directories — legal aid, accredited representatives, attorneys, pro bono removal-proceedings help, Designated School Officials, and community organizations — are free to everyone, with no ads, and that isn't a launch promotion. It's how the site is built.

Ask CaseWhy also answers three general USCIS-policy questions with no sign-in — "what does an RFE mean," "how does adjustment of status work" — grounded in the same policy knowledge base as everything else on the site, not a generic chatbot guessing.

What's free with a signed-in account

Track up to three cases, each with a full status history and its own complete, honest, plain-language explanation of what the current status means and whether there's real cause for concern — the basics are never held back. You also get a real email and push notification the day a tracked case's status actually changes, on every tier, unchanged.

What's in CaseWhy Plus

Plus is $9.99/month, with no long-term commitment, and unlocks:

• AI chat about your specific case. Unlimited back-and-forth about your actual tracked case — its live status, its history, its receipt-specific context — grounded in CaseWhy's own USCIS policy knowledge base and your specific tracked receipt, not a generic chatbot guessing. This is different from the free Ask CaseWhy tool above, which answers general policy questions but doesn't know your case.
• Deeper case explanations. The same honest basics every account gets, plus likely next steps, cited policy sources you can check yourself, and quick links into the escalation toolkit when a citation is relevant to a stall.

If you want to talk through your specific case with CaseWhy's grounded AI as often as you need, or want the deeper layer of context on what typically happens next, see CaseWhy Plus.