Corrections policy
We make mistakes. With 6,000+ pages of state-specific, federal, and consular procedural information, errors are statistically inevitable. Our policy is to fix errors transparently and quickly, and to make it easy for readers to flag them.
Why corrections matter
MigrantUSA covers YMYL (“Your Money or Your Life”) topics: immigration procedures, tax procedures, healthcare access, government benefits, scam awareness. The cost of an incorrect fee, an outdated phone number, or a misstated procedure can be substantial for our readers — a missed deadline, a denied application, a financial loss, or a vulnerability to scammers.
Corrections aren’t a sign of bad practice. Not having a corrections policy is a sign of bad practice. A YMYL publication that never publicly corrects anything is either lying about its error rate or refusing accountability.
How to report an error
Email info@migrantusa.com (subject line: “Correction: [page URL]”) OR corrections@migrantusa.com with:
- The page URL where the error appears
- What is wrong (specific sentence or fact)
- What is the correct information
- Source for the correction if available (link to USCIS page, IRS publication, state agency, etc. — helps us verify faster)
You will receive acknowledgment within 48 hours. Resolution within 7 days for non-critical, within 24 hours for critical (see severity tiers below).
Severity tiers and response time
| Severity | Examples | Response time |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | Wrong fee, wrong deadline, wrong agency phone, wrong required documents, wrong eligibility criteria | Fix within 24 hours + visible correction notice on page |
| High | Outdated procedural step, missing important caveat, broken authoritative-source link | Fix within 72 hours + visible correction notice if material |
| Standard | Outdated context, minor procedural detail, secondary cross-link broken | Fix within 7 days, no visible notice unless materially changes meaning |
| Minor | Typo, grammar, formatting | Fix in next scheduled review cycle, no visible notice |
What “visible correction notice” means
When we publish a correction on a page, we add a note like this:
Correction (date): The previous version of this page stated [incorrect information]. The correct information is [correct information]. This was corrected on [date] following reader feedback. We regret the error.
The note remains on the page until the next major review cycle (then archived in our corrections log below).
What we will NOT do
- We will NOT silently change pages to hide errors. If a fact was wrong and is now right, the correction is acknowledged.
- We will NOT take a page down to avoid acknowledging an error. We correct in place.
- We will NOT make corrections “by stealth” — material corrections always carry a visible notice for at least one review cycle.
- We will NOT make corrections only because a reader threatens legal action. Corrections are based on factual evidence, not pressure.
Corrections log
This is the public log of material corrections published on MigrantUSA. Each entry cites the official source and links to the corrected page.
September 9, 2026
Correction: West Virginia instruction permit is $7.50, not $5.00 — and the foreign-passport rule was overstated
Our West Virginia state-ID page listed the standard instruction permit at $5.00; that is the MOTORCYCLE instruction permit price. The WV DMV fee schedule lists the standard permit at $7.50 (both rows now shown). The same page said a foreign passport is accepted only with a U.S. visa; the DMV's document list requires the visa only if the applicant is from a country whose citizens the United States requires to obtain a visa. Four West Virginia DMV and one South Carolina Secretary of State source links that had gone dead were replaced with the agencies' current pages, and the $5-per-year identification-card fee is now cited to W. Va. Code 17B-2-1(f)(1)(C).
September 5, 2026
Correction: LSC civil legal aid directories reconciled with LSC's current grantee roster (7 states)
The state directories were built from LSC's service-area map snapshot of May 27, 2026, whose 2018 reporting year predates several mergers. Checked page by page against LSC's own grantee roster (lsc.gov/about-lsc/our-grantees) on September 5, 2026: Wisconsin still listed Judicare Legal Aid, which merged into Legal Action of Wisconsin on January 1, 2026; Minnesota listed Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota, now part of Justice North, and omitted Anishinabe Legal Services; Michigan omitted Michigan Indian Legal Services and Oklahoma omitted Oklahoma Indian Legal Services (Native American Basic Field grantees that LSC's map feed does not carry); Arkansas and Pennsylvania counted dissolved or merged organizations as current grantees; Tennessee counted one grantee twice because it holds two service areas. Each page now lists only current grantees, states the number of distinct organizations, and keeps former grantees in a labeled note with their 2018 figures. No 2018 figures were invented for the added grantees: LSC publishes none, and the cells say so.
September 1, 2026
Correction: EOIR pending caseload is 3,469,569 (FY 2026 Q3), not "3.7 million as of FY 2024"
All 104 immigration-court-by-state pages (EN + ES) stated that EOIR had approximately 3.7 million pending cases as of FY 2024 and an average wait of 1,200-1,500 days from the Notice to Appear to the first hearing. EOIR's own adjudication statistics (Pending Cases, New Cases, and Total Completions, data generated July 24, 2026) show 3,924,993 pending at the end of FY 2024 and 3,469,569 at the end of the third quarter of FY 2026; EOIR publishes no per-court NTA-to-hearing wait. The paragraph now renders from a dataset built from that PDF.
September 1, 2026
Correction: Form I-131 advance parole takes months longer than the "5-8 months" we stated, and a CBP parole fee applies at the port of entry
The 66 traveling-to-your-country pages (EN + ES) gave a 5-8 month processing time for Form I-131. USCIS's own processing-times system shows 23 months for advance parole and 16 months for re-entry permits (80% of cases adjudicated in the past six months); the pages now embed that live table. The same pages omitted that the USCIS fee schedule (Form G-1055, edition 05/29/26) attaches the Pub. L. 119-21 immigration parole fee, collected by CBP each time the holder seeks parole at a port of entry unless an exception applies.
September 1, 2026
Correction: the OpenSky Secured Visa requires US citizenship or permanent residence, so it is not an option for most ITIN-only applicants
Our 104 ITIN-banking-by-state pages listed the OpenSky Secured Visa as available to all ITIN holders. The card's own disclosure (Capital Bank, N.A.) requires the applicant to be a United States citizen or permanent resident and carries a $35 annual fee. The pages and the credit-building guide now say so; the Capital One Quicksilver Secured, which Capital One lists as ITIN-eligible, remains.
July 10, 2026
Correction: I-90 replacement processing time is 6.5 months, not 7
Our Form I-90 page carried a 7-month figure for the "Initial issuance or replacement" category, taken from a 2026-05-26 snapshot of the USCIS processing-times system. Re-verified live against egov.uscis.gov on 2026-07-10, USCIS now publishes 6.5 months for that category; the 10-year renewal figure is unchanged at 10.5 months. Both pages (EN + ES) and the underlying dataset were corrected, and the page now also explains the Case Inquiry Date, which governs when USCIS will actually accept a question about a pending case.
July 1, 2026
Correction: 104 driver's-license pages verified against federal sources — EDL eligibility, I-9 framing, fee figures
Three template claims on our 52-jurisdiction driver's-license pages failed primary-source verification and were corrected in English and Spanish: (1) Enhanced Driver's Licenses were described as available to green-card holders — DHS confirms EDLs prove U.S. citizenship and are for U.S. citizens only (issued by MI, MN, NY, VT, WA; valid at land/sea entry from Canada, Mexico, or the Caribbean — not Bermuda); (2) the Form I-9 note was garbled — a state license is a List B identity document by itself, and a separate List C work-authorization document (such as an unrestricted Social Security card) is what must accompany it; (3) generic fee ranges like "$20-$80" were removed and every fee cell now links to that state's official fee page. The CDL Social Security-number requirement citation was corrected to 49 CFR 383.153(e)(1).
July 1, 2026
Correction: Illinois driver's-license page updated — the TVDL was eliminated July 1, 2024
Our Illinois driver's-license guide still described the Temporary Visitor Driver's License (TVDL) as the path for undocumented residents. Illinois eliminated the TVDL on July 1, 2024: undocumented and no-SSN residents now receive the standard Illinois license (marked Federal Limits Apply) — $30, with a passport or approved consular card, one year of Illinois residency, and proof of insurance; existing TVDL holders can switch for $5. The page and every site mention have been corrected against the Illinois Secretary of State.
June 12, 2026
Correction: Mexico consulate directory — official county-level jurisdictions added; Anchorage page removed (closed since 2015)
We added Mexico's official consular jurisdictions (SRE master list cross-checked against each consulate's own circunscripción page) — 53 offices, county-by-county for split states. Three errors fixed in the process: our Anchorage page described a consulate that closed in November 2015 (Alaska belongs to Seattle); the New Brunswick consulate's address is 390 George Street, Suite 100 (not 100 Bayard Street); and the directory counted 55 offices when the network is 52 (51 consulates plus the embassy's consular section, including Oklahoma City and San Juan).
June 12, 2026
Correction: EOIR delisted 3 adjudication centers (74 locations); state court listings fixed
EOIR's hearing-access page now lists 74 court locations (the Falls Church, Richmond and Fort Worth adjudication centers were delisted). We also fixed state pages against the live list: Georgia was missing both Atlanta courts, Texas was missing El Paso SPC, Pennsylvania showed a nonexistent Pittsburgh court, and Alaska showed a nonexistent Anchorage court. Per EOIR's administrative control list, the Boise, Helena and Anchorage DHS offices are assigned to Portland, OR, and West Virginia to Philadelphia, PA.
June 12, 2026
Correction: EOIR court count and in-absentia fee updated on 104 court pages
Our immigration-court state pages said EOIR operates 71 courts with 700+ judges; EOIR's own hearing-access list covers 77 court locations, and the judge count was unsourced. The same pages garbled the H.R.1 in-absentia arrest fee: it is $5,130 after the 2026 inflation adjustment (originally $5,000), and proposed rule 2026-10082 (May 20, 2026) would raise it to $18,000 but is not in effect.
June 12, 2026
Correction: 7 immigration-court addresses fixed on our by-state pages
Seven court listings (LaSalle and Oakdale LA, Kansas City MO, Otero NM, Guaynabo PR, San Antonio TX, Los Angeles-West CA) showed EOIR headquarters' Falls Church, VA address as the court city. Each was re-verified against its justice.gov page and corrected, in both languages.
This log is updated whenever a material correction is published.
What we cannot correct
Some things readers report as “errors” are not errors we can correct:
- Outcomes you experienced — if you followed our procedural information and USCIS still denied your case, that is not an error in our information. We describe how procedures work; we cannot predict USCIS decisions on individual cases.
- Policy positions — if you disagree with how a government agency handles a procedure, that is feedback about the agency, not about our information. We describe how the agency operates; we do not advocate for or against the agency’s policies.
- Hypothetical scenarios — we describe procedures categorically. We cannot correct an absence of coverage for an unusual situation. We can consider adding coverage of that situation in a future page.
Our early months
MigrantUSA launched in June 2026. We expect our error rate to be highest during the first several months after launch, as the site receives its first wave of reader scrutiny, and we have built our editorial workflow to catch and quickly remediate errors during this period.
Updated: 2026-05-25. This policy applies to all content on MigrantUSA. Material changes to the policy will be noted here with the change date.