CAN SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE

[Pam&Mbaye 0]

I am so frustrated, I want to use James's shortcut but can't. When I try to use it from my computer it says I don't have enough memory so I went to the library and I could download the barcode but could not paste it on the form letter. Does anyone have any suggestions. I am still waiting on my I-864 to come from the NVC and they told me they sent it about 3 weeks ago and last week when I called to check on it they told me they just sent it out and it can take 2-4 weeks to reach me(somebody lied to me 3 weeks ago). Also, I just paid my IV fee bill the other day and it would be nice to use James's shortcut if possible for that as well to generate the barcode for the DS-230. If anybody has any suggestions on what to do please let me know because it is going pretty slow now.

[riblet 0]

Hi there I know I've seen people with other advice, but the one that I remember is that you can actually just print off the barcode and glue it on! I know it sounds too simple to be true, but other people have said it works I hope the rest of the process goes by quickly. I can't wait until ours is getting close to complete too We have everything ready to go.

[Pam&Mbaye 0]

Hi there I know I've seen people with other advice, but the one that I remember is that you can actually just print off the barcode and glue it on! I know it sounds too simple to be true, but other people have said it works I hope the rest of the process goes by quickly. I can't wait until ours is getting close to complete too We have everything ready to go.

Riblet,

You are not using James's shortcuts? I remember reading that post as well about cutting and pasting the barcode on the paper. The only problem I have with that is that now that I am getting close to everything being completed I didn't want to take a chance of having anything sent back to me. I thought if I could generate the barcode and put the barcode in place by computer then it would work fine. Unfortunately, it hasn't worked for me yet...this may be an omen to tell me that I just have to sit and wait it out like a lot of other people I don't have to like it though

[riblet 0]

I am using Jame's shortcuts - but I was able to edit and paste the barcode without any issues. I'm just not quite as far along in the process as you are though. I don't think it's a sign or anything that it hasn't worked yet Have you tried using other programs to edit the barcode? I used both paint and picasa.

good luck again

[devblt 0]

Pam,

Read your post about the bar codes. I've been able to use it successfully.

Here are the steps you need to take.

1) Use Jame's instructions to actually generate the bar code.

2) Do a "right click" with your mouse over the bar code and click on "save picture as"

3) Save the picture on your desktop.

4) Go to the file on your desktop and do a "right-click" on the file

5) Go to "Open with"

6) Select "Microsoft Office Picture Manager" as your first choice if you don't have that then use "Microsoft Paint"

7) If using Picture Manager, open the file put your mouse over the picture and do a right-click and go to "edit pictures" A panel will pop-up on the right side of the screen

8) Under "edit using these tools" click on the crop function. You'll see thick black lines around the picture.

9) Put the mouse over the middle - dottom horizontal line. Left click and move the mouse up so that the black line are now above the verbage "Powered by IdAutomation.com" and click on the "O.K" button on the pop-up window on the right hand side. That will crop your picture for you.

10) Now do a right click over the cropped picture.. click on "copy" go to the document where you need to replace the bar code and paste it.

11) Simillary if you are using Microsoft Paint.. you'll do something similar.. where you crop out the verbage and copy and paste it on the appropriate document.

Hope this helps.