Mission
About the project
Context, mission, and how we think about immigration evidence—beyond the product overview on the home page.
What we believe
Affidavit Support Network is infrastructure that benefits the immigration system itself. We help immigrants with genuine community ties collect honest, structured affidavits upfront – making the process more humane and predictable while supporting "law & order" and helping overworked USCIS officers.
For You — and for the System
Affidavit Support Network helps you collect strong, notarized testimonials before USCIS officers need to call your neighbors or coworkers. By submitting organized, credible affidavits upfront, you reduce the chances of intrusive neighborhood checks, help overworked USCIS officers spend less time chasing information, save taxpayer money you are about to contribute as a future U.S. citizen — and help other immigrants by keeping the system more efficient.
Why Now: The New Good Moral Character Standard
On August 15, 2025, USCIS issued a policy memo titled "Restoring a Rigorous, Holistic, and Comprehensive Good Moral Character Evaluation Standard for Aliens Applying for Naturalization."
This memo instructs officers to perform a holistic review of "good moral character" (GMC), looking not just at absence of crimes, but at behavior, community involvement, and positive contributions.
The problem: there is no structured infrastructure to collect the kind of community evidence this new standard implicitly demands. Affidavit Support Network is the missing infrastructure for this new reality.
A bridge, not a battlefield
Immigration is one of the most polarizing topics in America today. Affidavit Support Network doesn't take partisan sides. Instead, we provide infrastructure that serves the immigration system itself – making it more humane and predictable for applicants while supporting law & order and helping USCIS officers receive organized, readable evidence.
We believe that honest, verifiable evidence serves everyone: immigrants seeking fairness, communities wanting safety, USCIS officers needing clarity, and taxpayers wanting efficiency.
A Platform for Everyone
For people who care about compassion
- ✓Help immigrants with real community support avoid awkward, cold calls to neighbors and coworkers
- ✓Provide a dignified, structured way for people to support those they genuinely know and trust
- ✓Reduce the stress and chaos of affidavit collection for families already under pressure
- ✓Enable communities to show solidarity with law-abiding, contributing members
For people who care about safety and law & order
- ✓Require real names, real relationships, and structured affidavits instead of unverified stories
- ✓Help distinguish between people with genuine community ties and those who cannot demonstrate such ties
- ✓Provide verifiable, notarized evidence that authorities can trust
- ✓Support a rules-based immigration system with clear, structured documentation
Where these concerns overlap
Both perspectives want the same thing: a fair, transparent system where people with genuine community ties can prove their case, and where communities can confidently support those who deserve it. Affidavit Support Network provides the structure to make this happen.
Your civic choice
Supporters choose whether they feel comfortable participating and sharing what they personally know. The platform's job is to make that participation structured, respectful, and clear, not to pressure anyone or promise a result.
A strong support statement should come from genuine personal knowledge, not pressure or a promised outcome.
Why your affidavit matters
Your structured affidavit helps distinguish between people with real, positive community ties and those who cannot demonstrate such ties. It provides verifiable evidence upfront, reducing the need for USCIS officers to make cold calls to neighbors, coworkers, and employers.
By providing honest, detailed information proactively, you're helping create a fairer, more transparent immigration system while supporting overworked government officers and saving taxpayer resources.
USCIS context
Recent USCIS practice places stronger emphasis on holistic evaluations of good moral character and, in some cases, on neighborhood-style checks and testimonial evidence from people who actually know the applicant. Affidavit Support Network is designed to encourage proactive submission of testimonial affidavits from neighbors, coworkers, and employers, reducing the need for intrusive calls or visits to third parties.