Paiqi Calculator is a multilingual Visa Bulletin reference and forecasting site built to turn scattered official immigration updates into a clearer, source-backed workflow.
About Paiqi Calculator
What the site publishes
Paiqi Calculator tracks Department of State Visa Bulletin release timing, official cutoff charts, and USCIS filing-chart guidance. It also publishes multilingual explanations so the same core information is available in English, Simplified Chinese, and Hindi.
The goal is not to replace the government pages. The goal is to make the official signal easier to understand, compare, and verify.
Forecasted DOS release window based on historical same-month behavior
Official cutoff table tracking with movement summaries
Glossary help for Chart A, Chart B, priority date, and other common terms
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What gives this site original value
A raw tool with one chart or one predicted date can look thin. This site adds value by combining official release history, official PDF timestamp evidence, structured cutoff comparisons, methodology notes, and multilingual editorial context on top of the source pages.
That extra layer is the point: readers should be able to see the government fact, understand the model, and decide how much trust to place in the estimate.
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Who this is for
The site is meant for immigrants, families, lawyers, community moderators, and anyone tracking monthly Visa Bulletin movement who wants a cleaner, source-backed reference page.
It is an informational product, not a legal service. Final filing and case decisions should still be checked against the official government guidance for the relevant month.
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Who maintains this site
Paiqi Calculator is built and maintained by Meng (GitHub: nonhelix), an independent software engineer with a background in data and web systems. Meng reads the Visa Bulletin every month as a reader, not as a lawyer, and built this site to scratch a real itch: the official pages are authoritative but scattered, and most third-party summaries either strip out the sources or bury the user under ads.
This is a one-person editorial operation. Every data pull, forecast tweak, and written explanation is reviewed by the same person who signs every commit in the public repository. The source code, issue tracker, and commit history are all open so any reader can audit changes.
Meng does not sell visa services, immigration consulting, or legal advice. Paiqi Calculator is explicitly not a law firm, not an agent, and not a service provider. If you need case-specific help, talk to a licensed immigration attorney in your jurisdiction.
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How editorial changes are reviewed
Source data syncs run on a scheduled job that pulls directly from the DOS Visa Bulletin archive and USCIS filing-chart pages. Whenever a new official bulletin lands, the snapshot is refreshed, the forecast is re-run against the latest history, and any written explanation that references the prior month is reviewed for accuracy.
When editorial copy changes (a glossary term, a guidance Q&A, a blog article), the change goes through the public repository as a commit with a diff anyone can read. Translations for Chinese and Hindi are reviewed against the English source for consistency, not produced by raw machine translation.
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Corrections, contact, and accountability
If a source link breaks, a date looks wrong, a translation is unclear, or a forecast looks miscalibrated, the primary path is the public GitHub issue tracker — filing there creates a visible correction trail that future readers can reference.
For private correspondence (press questions, translation offers, security disclosures), email issues@paiqicalculator.com. Expect a human reply; there is no ticketing system behind this address.
Paiqi Calculator has no conflict-of-interest relationship with any immigration attorney, visa-service firm, or government agency. Advertising (Google AdSense or otherwise) does not influence which data is shown, how forecasts are labeled, or how uncertainty is disclosed.