Citation & Clarification Checks
A draft is only as good as the authority behind it, and a bad cite can sink a filing. As DraftyAI generates your draft, it may pause to surface a legal citation or a factual pinpoint for your confirmation—so the authorities you submit are ones you've stood behind, not ones you have to chase down after the fact. This is a review aid, not a guarantee of citation correctness—you remain the authority on every citation and fact in your filing.
Why the pause happens
DraftyAI reviews citations as it drafts and flags the ones worth a second look. If a citation appears questionable, incomplete, or rests on a specific pinpoint—a reporter page, a statutory subsection, a CFR provision, or a BIA or circuit decision cited for a particular holding—the system may ask you to confirm or correct it before continuing. Citations are flagged for your review to confirm or correct; this is a safeguard, not a guarantee of accuracy.
What you do
When prompted, you'll see the flagged citation or fact in context—the sentence where it's used and any supporting source or reference. You can:
- Confirm it as written and move forward
- Correct it with the accurate citation, pinpoint, or fact from the record
- Remove it if it doesn't belong
Once you confirm or correct, the draft continues to completion.
Important: You verify everything
These checks are not a substitute for your own review. Even if a citation passes a check, you must read and verify every authority, pinpoint, and fact in your finished draft against the record and the source. Immigration practice runs on precision—a misquoted holding, a missing pinpoint, or a fact that doesn't match the record can cost you before an adjudicator, an immigration judge, the BIA, or a circuit court. DraftyAI accelerates drafting; your judgment is irreplaceable.
Treat clarification checks as a collaborative safety step: the system helps surface potential issues, and you make the final call on every citation and claim that goes into the filing.
DraftyAI accelerates drafting; it is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. You review, edit, and are solely responsible for every document you file.