Form I-918: U nonimmigrant petition and certification distinctions

The petition and its supplements have different roles

The official I-918 landing page links the principal petition, Supplement A titled Petition for Qualifying Family Member of U-1 Recipient and Supplement B titled U Nonimmigrant Status Certification. These titles identify separate document roles. A family member’s record and a certification should not be described as interchangeable copies of the principal petition.

The page also distinguishes bona fide determination review and waiting-list consideration from final U-1 adjudication. This guide does not quote a current queue date, cap allocation or processing estimate. Read the actual notice to identify which action occurred; a reference to one intermediate process should not be renamed a final status grant.

Separate a certification from the petition decision

A related certification record and a USCIS petition serve different functions. Do not describe the existence of one document as a promise that the immigration request will be approved. Check the current instructions for the role, source and completeness of each relevant record.

Catalog incident evidence with provenance

Record the issuing agency, document title, date, language and secure location. A police report, court disposition and personal chronology may answer different factual questions. Keep allegations, findings and later outcomes accurately labeled rather than treating every entry in a record as a final judicial conclusion.

Protect identities during research

General site search is not an intake channel for incident reports, addresses or family identifiers. Use appropriate private sharing with a qualified representative. This guide does not contact certifying agencies, select a legal route or predict a decision; the checklist provides a free structure for organizing questions.

Preserve who made each statement in a record

An incident report can include statements by several people as well as an agency’s own observations. A later court document can describe a different procedural result. Keep those layers distinguishable in the index. Do not turn a reported allegation into a final finding or a later disposition into proof of every immigration requirement. Qualified review needs the complete source context.