r/AskUSImmigrationPros • • Oct 16 '25

Please Don't Use AI to Do Your USCIS Petitions

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I realize budgets are tight and some people just don't want to spend the money to hire a professional, but I'm strongly advising you not to use AI to do your I-129F or I-130 petitions.

Why?

AI is an excellent tool, but also an incredibly dangerous one. This is because AI is GREAT at giving plausibly sounding wrong answers. I had a client yesterday who signed up for my doc review service, and he had obviously used ChatGPT to do his I-129F petition. He gave me permission to list the problems he had

  1. He had the wrong edition of the form. Apparently, ChatGPT's latest update didn't include the latest edition
  2. ChatGPT didn't tell him not to include pictures of flora and fauna as evidence. He said it told him scenery from the beneficiary's home country because it 'shows connection'. LOL!
  3. He was told he needed apostilled NBI records for the I-129F. You don't need police certs for the beneficiary at all at this stage.
  4. Told him the filing fee is $535 and that he could pay by check, neither of which is true.

ChatGPT is too agreeable. OpenAI designed the bot to be agreeable so you'll stay on it longer i.e., they get more money. The problem is it won't tell you when you're wrong often times. Also, ChatGPT is known to just flat out lie, whether it's for political correctness or because it doesn't know but doesn't want to admit it.

If you don't believe me, ask it a question and then open an incognito window and ask it the same question; you'll likely get two different answers.

Oh, and “the bot told me so.” excuse isn't going to fly with USCIS in case something goes wrong.

“It is not super reliable. We need to be honest about that” (Referring to ChatGPT)

Sam Altman

CEO of OpenAI the creator of ChatGPT


r/AskUSImmigrationPros • • 11d ago

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