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Anchor by Aruna Law Firm

Your status runs on dates. Anchor keeps count.

Anchor is a status tracking app for people on H-1B and F-1/OPT status. It reads your own immigration documents, works out the dates that decide your legal standing, and shows you what is coming and what is missing, in one place, on your own phone.

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iOS and Android. Thirty days free, then $5 a month. Available in the United States. Anchor is a tracking tool, not legal advice.

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H-1B professionals Approval notice, LCA, I-94, passport, pay stubs. Anchor checks whether those dates agree with each other, and counts down to the extension window.
F-1 and OPT students Program end date, OPT end date, the STEM OPT filing window, and the ninety day unemployment allowance, all counted from your own I-20 and EAD.
Built by a law firm Anchor is built by Aruna Law Firm. It tracks, it does not advise. When your situation needs judgment, an attorney is a consultation away.

The Problem

The dates that decide your status are not printed on any one document.

You hold six or seven documents that between them define your legal standing, and the dates on them interact. An I-94 that ends before the petition does is a problem. An LCA that does not cover the whole employment period is a problem. A passport that expires before your status does is a problem. A STEM OPT filing window opens ninety days out, then closes. The unemployment allowance runs whether or not anyone is counting.

Nine document types Anchor reads, from the I-797 to the I-983 to a pay stub
Six rules that check your documents against each other and against today
One timeline holding every confirmed date and every window Anchor computed

How It Works

Four steps, and nothing happens without you.

  1. Step 1

    Tell Anchor which you are

    H-1B or F-1/OPT. That single answer decides which rules run, which documents your checklist expects, and which updates reach your feed. If you later move from F-1 to H-1B, Anchor notices from your approval notice and offers to switch you across, rather than quietly keeping you on the wrong rules.

  2. Step 2

    Add your documents

    Photograph them, pick them from your library, or attach a file. Anchor accepts the I-797, LCA, I-20, EAD card, I-94, passport visa page, I-129, I-983, and pay stubs. Files go to private storage, opened only through a link that expires within minutes.

  3. Step 3

    Anchor reads them, then asks you

    Anchor identifies each document and reads the fields that belong to that type. A field it cannot read clearly comes back blank and marked low confidence, never guessed from the fields around it. Then it shows you everything it read and asks you to confirm, correct, or skip each value.

  4. Step 4

    Your dates go on the clock

    Only once you confirm does anything reach your profile. From there Anchor computes the windows nobody prints: the extension window six months before your petition ends, the STEM filing deadline, the grace period. Countdowns are worked out on your phone against today, so they are right every morning.

What Anchor Does

Reads, checks, counts.

01 · Status

One screen that answers the question you actually have.

A countdown to the next date that matters. Below it, whatever the rules found: dates that disagree with each other, a passport that runs out before your status does, a document your category expects that you have not added yet. Each flag opens to show which of your own documents it was computed from.

  • Hero countdown to your next real deadline
  • Attention flags, each traceable to the documents behind it
  • A checklist of what your category still expects
  • For F-1, the ninety day unemployment allowance, drawn out day by day

02 · Review

Nothing reaches your profile before you confirm it.

Automatic reading makes mistakes, and a wrong date produces a wrong warning. So Anchor separates the two jobs. Reading a document writes nothing but the raw fields. Your dates, your timeline, and your flags are written only after you have been through those values one by one. A value you skip contributes nothing at all, rather than quietly falling back on what the reader thought it saw.

  • Every field shown with how confident the reading was
  • Confirm, correct, or skip, field by field
  • A value that fails its expected format is marked for you to check
  • Anchor refuses to compute anything while a field is still pending

03 · Timeline

Every date you confirmed and every window Anchor computed, in order.

The timeline is the whole history in one list: what each document contributed, and what the rules worked out from it. Anchor marks reminder points at ninety, sixty, forty five, thirty, fourteen, and seven days before a deadline, and the copy always says the days actually remaining rather than the label on the slot. A window merely opening raises no alarm, because being warned about an opportunity reads like bad news.

  • Reminder points at 90, 60, 45, 30, 14, and 7 days out
  • Countdowns computed on your device, correct every morning
  • Works offline: Anchor shows what it last saw, and still counts from today
  • Push notifications are not part of the first release. Countdowns and reminders live on your status screen

04 · Updates

A short feed, written by the firm, filtered to your category.

The feed is curated, not scraped. Aruna Law Firm puts each item in, so somebody is accountable for what you are told, and every figure and date is kept exactly as published. Each item carries a panel showing what it touches in your own record: your dates, and the category the announcement was filed under. It restates your position. It does not tell you what to do about it.

  • Filtered to H-1B or F-1/OPT, whichever you are
  • Submitted and reviewed by the firm, never pulled from a feed reader
  • Figures and dates preserved exactly as published
  • No item recommends that you file, wait, or act

05 · Your data

Your documents are yours, and Anchor is built so that stays true.

Your files sit in private storage, reachable only through a link Anchor mints when you open a document and which expires within minutes. Anchor never routes a document through a third party viewer, because that would mean handing your passport to somebody else. The database itself, not the app, is what enforces that only you can read your own records.

  • Private storage, short lived links, no third party document viewer
  • No advertising, no analytics, no trackers
  • Export everything you hold as a single file, whenever you want it
  • Delete your account from inside the app, with thirty days to change your mind

Be Clear About This

Anchor tracks. It does not advise.

Every flag, deadline, and explanation in Anchor is a fixed template over dates computed from documents you confirmed yourself. Nothing in the app interprets your case.

Not legal advice

Using Anchor does not make us your lawyers

An attorney-client relationship with Aruna Law Firm is formed only by a signed engagement. Anchor can tell you that two of your documents disagree. It does not tell you what that means for your case.

Not a recommendation

Anchor never tells you to file, wait, or act

Flags describe what your documents say about each other. Feed items summarise what was published. Neither is written as advice, because neither one knows your circumstances.

Not a substitute

Check the dates, and keep your own record

Reading a document automatically can go wrong, which is why you confirm every field. Anchor is only as accurate as what you confirmed. Do not make it your only record of a deadline.

Where we do advise

For the judgment, engage the firm

When a date needs a decision behind it, that is legal work, and it belongs with an attorney. A consultation with Aruna Law Firm can be booked in a minute.

Pricing

Thirty days free, then $5 a month.

Billing runs through Stripe, and you can cancel at any time. If a renewal payment fails, Anchor keeps working while the payment is retried: losing sight of your visa dates over an expired card is out of all proportion.

30 days free, before anything is charged
$5 a month after that, cancel whenever you like
US only at launch, on iOS and Android

Put your dates somewhere they will be counted.

Anchor is coming soon to the App Store and Google Play. Until it ships, our attorneys are available for anything your status needs.

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