Privacy policy

Last updated September 29, 2026

h1b-life ("we") runs this website. We collect as little as possible, we don't use advertising or tracking cookies, and we never sell or share personal information. Questions: hello@h1b-life.com.

Visiting the site

• Analytics. We count visits with Umami, which we run on our own server. It uses no cookies and does not follow you to other sites. We see totals such as page views, referring sites, country, browser and device type. IP addresses are not stored. If your browser sends a "Do Not Track" signal, you are not counted at all.
• Server logs. Our web server keeps standard access logs (IP address, page requested, time, browser) for security and troubleshooting. They are rotated automatically and kept for a limited time.
• Cloudflare. The site is delivered through Cloudflare, which protects it from attacks and processes each request to do so. Cloudflare also adds a small cookieless script that measures page-load speed (Cloudflare Web Analytics).
• Law firm videos. Some pages show videos from immigration law firms' YouTube channels. Until you press play, only a preview image is loaded from YouTube's image server. When you press play, the video loads from YouTube's privacy-enhanced domain (youtube-nocookie.com), and YouTube's own privacy policy applies to that video.
• Maps. City guide maps load map images from OpenStreetMap's tile servers. Your browser contacts them directly, so they receive your IP address as part of that request. Everything else, including fonts, is served from our own site.

Cookies and browser storage

We don't set cookies, and we don't use advertising or cross-site tracking of any kind. Cloudflare may occasionally set a strictly necessary security cookie when it suspects automated traffic.

The site keeps a few small items in your browser's local storage, on your device only. They are never sent to us or anyone else:

• Your tool entries, such as dates in My deadlines, answers in the wait estimator, travel-ready check, parents' visit planner, age-out clock and checklists, so they are still there next time.
• Your chosen category and country, so the queue card and status bar show your line.
• Your chosen currency for the currency converter in the top bar. Exchange rates come with the page from our own site; the converter makes no outside requests.
• The date of your last visit, so the home page can show what changed since then.

You can remove all of it at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser settings.

Email updates

If you subscribe, we store your email address and the options you choose (for example your country, category and, if you give it, your priority date) so we can send the right alerts. You confirm by email before anything is sent (double opt-in). Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link. Emails are sent through Brevo, which processes your address only to deliver them.

Stories, questions and surveys

• What you submit is stored on our own server and moderated before anything is published. Moderation runs on our server. Your text is never sent to outside AI services.
• Stories are published only if you ticked the box allowing it. Please don't include names, case numbers or other details that could identify you or anyone else; we remove them if we see them.
• To limit spam we store a scrambled (hashed) version of your IP address with each submission, not the address itself.

Deleting your information

Unsubscribe at any time from any email. To have your subscription or a submission deleted, email hello@h1b-life.com from the address you used, or tell us which submission it was, and we will delete it.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, we update this page and the date at the top.