Thank you for considering a donation to ImmigrationWatch.com -- a community-based website devoted to providing real-time immigration processing status, comprehensive statistics and interactive platform, completely free-of-charge, to the immigration community. In order to support this service offering, we work hard to coordinate all efforts from data contributors, technical staff and information consultants and maintain a sophisticated collaborative network for data hosting, mining, analyzing and publishing. With more and more pending cases joining the network and more and more users visiting the site, scalability inevitably becomes a critical issue in light of the tremendous amount of data updates and provisioning involved. Keeping the steam up to continue to provide the immigration community reliable and up-to-date statistics requires an upgrade of hardware infrastructure. Your contribution will facilitate this approach in a positive way and help us to better serve the fast-growing immigration community.

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Why should I make a donation to ImmigrationWatch.com? Where would my donation go? Are there any particular targets or areas where my donation should be directed? What do I get for my contribution? Does my support project get a special treat to be implemented next? How will my donations be recognized? Is my donation tax-deductible? How do I make a donation?

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Why should I make a donation to ImmigrationWatch.com?

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Do you find the statistics compiled and published on ImmigrationWatch.com helpful in walking you through the long immigration journey in any sense of: making an informed decision before taking any (further) actions; keeping a vigilant eye on where you exactly stand in the long waiting line; getting a sense of safety by recognizing you are not alone in the darkness; encouraging and comforting each other with those who are sailing with you in the same boat; getting well prepared to celebrate your happing ending when it is just around the corner. If the answer is yes, you might want to help us to keep this site alive and have more and more immigrants benefit from our services. United we can make the long waiting less frustrating, less blindfolded, and less unpredictable. As always with statistics, the presentation of results appears in a quite simple way but it comes in a very hard way by going through all of the phases: raw data collecting, validity cross-verifying, and analytical model identifying. With millions of records hosted in our database (more and more pending cases keeping join) and trillions of their processing history updates, it is a tremendous challenge for us to operate and maintain the site in a real-time manner. Despite of the dedication of our team and all community members, there is a real world cost from hardware infrastructure (database and repository servers, load-balancing and fail-over servers, application servers, dedicated web servers) and third-party services (bandwidth, software licensing, add-on software developing, technical assistance, professional consulting). Also, we keep adding new features or functionalities to make the site more content rich and interface user-friendly. If you like what we are doing for the immigration community and want us keep the steam up, you can make a donation and help us out.

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Where would my donation go? Are there any particular targets or areas where my donation should be directed?

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By donating money to ImmigrationWatch.com, you help us in general to offset the operating expense mentioned above and facilitate our approach to provide stronger and better service to the immigration community with upgraded hardware infrastructure and qualified professional dedications. We do have, from time to time, some short-term targets to reach and projects of top priority to implement within a short period of time. You can specifically direct your donations to what are of your interests. Specific projects: Infrastructure upgrade to speed up Recent Approvals list and Process Statistics updates Forum rewarding system to encourage more community members to answer questions and share their experience Monthly statistics of Processing Times Visualization of Processing Times Visualization of Recent Approvals Any feature/functionality/service you believe is important

Q.	What do I get for my contribution? Does my support project get a special treat to be implemented next?
A.	While we making no guarantee that the features you supported are of higher priority than the others, we will definitely take donor's interests into account and accordingly allocate our resource to better serve the immigration community's most interests. For example, if most donors are interested in I-485 cases, we may update I-485 case more frequently.

Q.	How will my donations be recognized?
A.	While making donations to ImmigrationWatch.com, you are provided the option to have your name listed in our appreciation list, which is updated instantly.

Q.	Is my donation tax-deductible?
A.	Despite the fact that we, at ImmigrationWatch.com, provide services free of charge to the immigration community, but ImmigrationWatch.com is not one of registered 501(c)3 charities/organizations that are permitted to provide tax exemptions. Donations made to ImmigrationWatch.com are not tax-deductible.

Q.	How do I make a donation?
A.	You can make a donation to ImmigrationWatch.com through PayPal. Following the instructions provided by PayPal you may complete your donation process and once your donations have been submitted PayPal will email you a receipt. We will be electronically notified of your donations and your name will be displayed in our supporter list, if you opt it on. We appreciate your generosity.

Appreciation List of Donations Name Date Amount Comments Anonymous 12/07/2008 $$ Keep up the steam!!! Anonymous 10/05/2008 $$ Half of knowledge is knowing where to find it. Support this site. Anonymous 09/16/2008 $$ Knowledge and information is power. Anonymous 07/19/2008 $$ This is an amazing resource! Keep up the good work Anonymous 03/04/2008 $$ Keep it up. Good Luck. Anonymous 06/12/2007 $ Anonymous 11/16/2006 $$ zlzhang 07/12/2006 $$ Thanks for your work. I appreciate if you tell me a little about about where you get the data? from lawyers or USCIS? Anonymous 03/18/2006 $$ savannahmag 02/24/2006 $$ Just a thank you for all of your good work asharma 08/24/2005 $$ piman 05/24/2005 $$ I am specifically interested in the I129 processing statistics updates. Greatly appreciate the job you are doing. hvdz710 05/09/2005 $ srigiriraju 02/08/2005 $$ Great service to the immigration community. Great Job mtusa 01/19/2005 $$ I hope this site will stay long and help the people who are missing their direction from GC.