īeneficiaries submitting new cases that arrive at the NVC from USCIS on or after Septemwill be instructed to complete the DS-260 and DS-261. P.S.VisaPro has confirmed with the National Visa Center (NVC) that effective Septemthe online Forms DS-260 and DS-261 will replace the paper-based DS-230 and the DS-3032. With the regular DS-230, as soon as the bill appears as PAID, you can mail off the DS-230 package instead of filling out the DS-260.Īnyways, just wanted to write up a post about these new online forms. The DS-260, I believe, you can only fill out once the IV bill appears as PAID. In the long run, for those unable to participate in EP, I would do the regular DS-230 just because you can pre-fill it out. It's the same information that's on the DS-230, but just seems way longer. I've seen screenshots of the online form and it's spread across many, many pages. Personally, I wouldn't want to do the DS-260. This is different from EP since you still have to mail in the I-864 package and part of the DS-230 package. NVC eventually wants this online form to be available to every country, but this process just started in October 2010 and they're currently doing testing of this new method. Once the form is filled out online, the rest of the package still has to be mailed in (passport pictures, birth certificate, marriage certificate, etc).Īt this time though, the DS-260 is only open to a few consulates: Amman (Jordan), Athens (Greece), Baghdad (Iraq), Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Lima (Peru), and Montreal (Canada). Once the IV bill is paid, the DS-260 can then be filled out online. The rest of the process is the same (payment portal, sending in the I-864 package). This is similar to emailing/mailing the DS-3032. Once a case has reached NVC and the beneficiary and petitioner get their NVC case number, they fill out the online DS-261 form to choose the "agent" where all future correspondence is sent to. And the DS-261 is the online version of the DS-3032.Īs far as I know, this is how the new process works:
I had never heard of them before.Īpparently, the DS-260 is a new online form of the DS-230 that is required at the NVC stage. *Reference link to abbreviations/terms post*Ī few weeks ago, I came across the terms DS-261 and DS-260 on VJ.
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