NVC forms question

[oohpartiv 484]

Quick question!

My husband and I haven't gotten our assortment of NVC numbers yet (case, IIN, etc) but we've finished the paperwork for both the AOS and IV packets and sent them to my dad's address in the US (my husband and I are living in Ecuador at the moment) so that when the time comes to send them in, we won't run the risk of them getting lost in the mail or taking ages to get to the office. Problem is, a friend of mine just told me that on the I864 and DS230 we were supposed to fill everything out in caps. We did it in black ink... but not in caps. Is this going to be a big problem? I made sure everything was completely legible and easy to read, and like I said, we did it all with a black pen. It would be a shame to have to redo everything and send it to the US again (international shipping is NOT cheap) - but if I'm going to get a RFE for it not being in caps, I'll do it. Thoughts?

Edited January 28, 2013 by oohpartiv

[fcat 79]

Strange you should as that as Ive just gone over both my forms this afternoon and changed all the entries to caps!!

I didn't want to risk it as it clearly says it should be caps in the first sentence on the information sheet for theI-864, see link below:

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-864instr.pdf

[oohpartiv 484]

Ughh, I know, I'm so regretting not looking over those directions one last time before sending the papers. I was so focused on making sure the information was correctly, I didn't even think to check the instructions on HOW to fill in the information

[let-it-be 36]

Quick question!

My husband and I haven't gotten our assortment of NVC numbers yet (case, IIN, etc) but we've finished the paperwork for both the AOS and IV packets and sent them to my dad's address in the US (my husband and I are living in Ecuador at the moment) so that when the time comes to send them in, we won't run the risk of them getting lost in the mail or taking ages to get to the office. Problem is, a friend of mine just told me that on the I864 and DS230 we were supposed to fill everything out in caps. We did it in black ink... but not in caps. Is this going to be a big problem? I made sure everything was completely legible and easy to read, and like I said, we did it all with a black pen. It would be a shame to have to redo everything and send it to the US again (international shipping is NOT cheap) - but if I'm going to get a RFE for it not being in caps, I'll do it. Thoughts?

I know for sure that in filling up I-864 should be all in CAPITAL letters. But in DS-230 there wasn't any mention of it at all. My parents used both caps lock for their names & lower case letters for the addresses etc. Hope NVC is not going to nitpick this.

[oohpartiv 484]

What if I filled them out again, signed them, and faxed or scanned them to email instead of snail mail? Would NVC accept that, or would it be too obvious that they were "copies"?

[fcat 79]

What if I filled them out again, signed them, and faxed or scanned them to email instead of snail mail? Would NVC accept that, or would it be too obvious that they were "copies"?

They will have to have original hand written signatures on the papers that you send to the NVC.

[let-it-be 36]

What if I filled them out again, signed them, and faxed or scanned them to email instead of snail mail? Would NVC accept that, or would it be too obvious that they were "copies"?

They want original signatures.

[Jughead 3]

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-864instr.pdf

As per this link the directions say print clearly or type using all CAPS. So if you printed clearly there should be no issue.