How to assemble I-864 & DS-230 packets??

[bgreen19 2]

Hi VJ. We finally have everything ready to be sent to the NVC. My question is how do I assemble each package? I have the bar coded cover sheets and cover letter for each packet.

But how should they be put together? With staples, 2 hole punched, paperclips? Any advice would be helpful.

[Chez&Rick 11]

Paperclips is best way to go, it doesn't leave holes and it looks neat and organized. Reason you do not want to staple them is because they will take your packet apart to review each page and who knows they may rip off a piece of vital information when they pull the staples out that you will need for later and could lead to a RFE, and we know how those go. It doesn't matter if you send them together or not for they are 2 seperate tracks, some people send them together some do not, it's your preference you should assemble your packets based on the order you have it on your cover letter so they can follow that and know exactly what pages are where. It's also suggested, but not mandatory, to write your case number on each and every sheet with a pencil on the top of the paper, not to big but enough to read it. That's in case by some chance one of your documents end up getting misplaced, they will see the case number on it and know what case it belongs to. Hope this helps a little, and good luck on rest of your journey

[green-world2012 1]

Some I stapled ( the pages that should stay together) and over all I put a paperclip.

[NikLR 13,227]

paper or binder clips.