Terms of Service

1. What the service is

EffortlessVisa is self-help software that helps you prepare your own U.S. immigration filings - currently the K-1 fiancé petition (Form I-129F), adjustment of status (Form I-485 with the Form I-864 Affidavit of Support), and removal of conditions (Form I-751), with more planned. It asks you questions in plain English, saves your progress, checks your answers for common problems, and generates the government forms and an organized packet for you to review, print, sign, and file. It helps you organize and generate documents; it does not independently verify every fact you enter and does not decide your legal eligibility.

2. No legal advice or representation

EffortlessVisa is not a law firm, does not provide legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship. We do not represent you before USCIS or any agency. Questionnaire warnings, form checks, and examples are informational only. You may consult a licensed immigration attorney or a DOJ-accredited representative at any time. See the Self-Help & Legal Disclaimer.

3. No government affiliation

We are privately operated and not affiliated with or endorsed by USCIS, DHS, the Department of State, or any government agency. The government’s official forms, instructions, and fee schedules are available for free from the agencies’ own websites.

4. Your responsibilities

You are responsible for:

• Providing complete, accurate, and truthful information.
• Reviewing every generated form and document before you use it.
• Confirming your information is still current when you file.
• Reading the official form instructions.
• Signing the documents that require a signature.
• Including the required evidence and the correct government fees.
• Filing through the correct method and at the correct location.
• Meeting all deadlines.
• Keeping copies and proof of delivery.

If anything here conflicts with the official government forms, instructions, fee schedules, or an agency’s decision, the government’s materials control.

5. No outcome or timing guarantee

We do not guarantee:

• Acceptance, approval, a visa, admission, adjustment of status, or citizenship.
• Avoiding a rejection, Request for Evidence, Notice of Intent to Deny, interview, investigation, or delay.
• Any particular government processing time.
• The continued availability or acceptance of any form edition.

The only exception is the limited approval-refund guarantee in the Refund & Approval Guarantee Terms, which is a refund policy, not a promise of approval.

6. Eligibility screens are not legal determinations

The eligibility screeners and warnings are informational safeguards, not legal determinations. Passing a questionnaire or getting a “routine” result does not mean you are legally eligible or that your filing will be approved. Some situations are routed to a recommendation that you seek professional review; those routings are also not legal advice.

7. Account security and encryption

Your sensitive case answers and uploaded documents are encrypted in your browser with a key derived from a case password you choose, so that we cannot ordinarily read them (see the Privacy Policy). This protection applies to case content; your account email, name, case labels, and payment records are readable by us to run the service.

You are responsible for keeping your account password, your case password(s), any recovery key, and anyone you deliberately grant access secure. If you lose your case password and have not saved a recovery key, we cannot recover that case - the encrypted content will be permanently inaccessible, including to us.

8. Pricing, payments, and refunds

• Each filing (for example, Form I-129F) is a one-time charge of $79. It is not a subscription and does not renew.
• Payment becomes due when you choose to generate a paid filing packet. The fee is refundable until you generate that packet; after it is generated, the fee is non-refundable except for a billing error or under the approval-refund guarantee below.
• The separate, conditional approval-refund guarantee is described in the Refund & Approval Guarantee Terms.
• Government filing fees are paid directly to the government and are separate from our fee. We never collect government fees, and we cannot refund fees you pay to a government agency or any third party.
• If you are charged twice for the same thing or believe there is a billing error, contact us and we will investigate and correct genuine duplicate or erroneous charges.

9. No human packet review is currently offered

The current $79 filing product provides software-generated questionnaire and packet checks; it does not include a human preparer, expert, or attorney review. We will not charge for a human review unless a secure submission and fulfillment process is available and the applicable terms are updated before purchase.

10. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the service to: commit fraud or knowingly submit false information to the government; steal or misuse another person’s identity or information; access an account or data that isn’t yours; probe, scan, or security-test the service without our written permission; scrape or automate access; or resell or redistribute the service. You confirm you are authorized to provide information about any other person you enter.

11. Intellectual property

The software, our original explanations and help content, our templates, and the EffortlessVisa name and branding belong to us, and you may use them only to prepare your own filings. We do not claim ownership of the government forms themselves or of your personal documents and information - those remain yours (or the government’s).

12. Changes to forms, fees, and these Terms

Immigration forms, fees, laws, and agency policies change, and our features change with them. We may update these Terms; if we make a material change, we will update the version and effective date and give reasonable notice (for example, by email or an in-app notice) before it takes effect for continued use.

13. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We do not warrant that the software will detect every error or omission, that generated documents will be accepted, or that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free.

To the extent permitted by law, EffortlessVisa is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, and our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid us for the filing or service giving rise to the claim in the 12 months before the claim.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including liability for our own fraud or willful misconduct, or your legal rights as a consumer that cannot be waived. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so some of the above may not apply to you.

14. Indemnification

You agree to cover reasonable losses we incur from your unlawful use of the service, information you provide that is fraudulent or that you were not authorized to provide, your infringement of someone else’s rights, or your material violation of these Terms. This does not apply to losses caused by our own negligence or misconduct.

15. Governing law and disputes

EffortlessVisa is operated by Effortless Visa LLC, a Texas company. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and you and EffortlessVisa agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Texas. Mandatory consumer-protection laws where you live may still give you rights, including the right to bring certain claims in your home forum, that this section does not take away.

16. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the service and delete your cases at any time. We may suspend or close an account for a violation of these Terms or suspected fraud or abuse. Before deletion, you can export or download your generated documents. When an account is deleted we remove its data as described in the Privacy Policy; copies may persist in backups on a delayed rotation. Sections that by their nature should survive termination - such as payment obligations, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and indemnification - continue to apply.