How do you fit so much information on such a small line?

[Ciyin 1]

My fiancee and I are going through the DS-230,156, 156K, and 157. We're having trouble with the lines that are supposed to be filled out in English AND Chinese according to the instructions here. There's just not enough room to have both languages. At first we thought she could write it in Chinese after it's been printed out, but even then I don't think there's enough space.

How have you all handled getting a lot of information into a little space?

[DJ&L 83]

My fiance typed as much as possible and then printed the document. Then she wrote in what was left...which was usually the Chinese.

Not sure if that's the best way but it's what we're going to use.

Edited October 15, 2013 by DJ&L

[Daveykins 17]

Leave the line blank and print out the completed form without that line. Print out what text you want to put on that line in really small font. Cut out that text and paste it into the line. Copy the form with the text pasted to it. I had to do this for the G325A in the initial submission since the address line was way too small. I ended up putting 2 lines worth of small text to include the full address. Pain in the ###, but it worked without any trouble.

[JD & Coconut 35]

For all the forms that we could not fit the text in or would not accept Chinese characters, we created an addendum and added all of the information there. Just be sure to label the form and all of the associated fields, sign and date (if the original requires it) and attach it to the original. We had a Chinese officer who really grilled my fiancee but she passed and there were no problems with our documentation.

[DJ&L 83]

I don't think there's anything wrong with simply writing in additional information. We did that on the G-325 with no issue. There's nothing that states in all needs to be typed.

[Chris&Mia 2]

I abbreviated my wifes chinese address on her forms when enough space wasnt available. Usually chinese addresses are full of useless junk like province, city, district, zone, area, block, street, building name, building address, floor, and room/apt number. I took some artistic license when necessary and just have room number, street address, city, and post code. Nobody along the way seemed to mind.....

[JD & Coconut 35]

I abbreviated my wifes chinese address on her forms when enough space wasnt available. Usually chinese addresses are full of useless junk like province, city, district, zone, area, block, street, building name, building address, floor, and room/apt number. I took some artistic license when necessary and just have room number, street address, city, and post code. Nobody along the way seemed to mind.....

" Usually chinese addresses are full of useless junk like province, city, district, zone, area, block, street, building name, building address, floor, and room/apt number."

lol, I did the same thing on some of our forms; too much information, just truncated everything but the street address, city and province.