Signature on I-864EZ

[Dualie 185]

Okay. So I am doing the last minute go-over before these docs get emailed to NVC. I have been doing ALL of the filling out of forms, etc. as the husband is constantly on the road. Anyhoo...I get to the I-864EZ. I downloaded this and filled it out with all the husband's IRS info...everything is good to go. Then I get to the signature line, it's BLANK! Hmm, so can he sign it using Acrobat, or do I have to print out this bad boy to have him sign it with a pen, and then re-scan it (please tell me I don't have to do this...I will cry ). I am such a goober, I thought I had it all sewn up.

Ah well, the DS-260 will be released this week and THAT will surely keep me out of the bars for a night or two (just joking...but seriously, having lived in a zillion places in my life is NOT doing me any favours here!).

So please, those of you who have done this before, impart your wisdom upon me. Can we get away with an Adobe siggy, or do I have to do the print and re-scan (which will put us a week or two out, cuz I'm a goober ). My free trial of Acrobat is ticking down...

Thanks in advance!

[Ian H. 207]

He has to sign it, the signature has to be original, it cannot be a photocopy or printed out. In any case he is the one that should send this to the NVC, not you since he is the one in the US. If you are just filling out the form, you should be able to save it and email it to him. All he has to do is print it and sign it.

[Ian H. 207]

Wait, I just re-read your post and it says you will email the docs to the NVC, is the Canadian embassy participating in the online method where you send all supporting docs by email? If so, then a scanned signature would be fine since it has to be scanned anyway.

Acrobat has a way of importing a signature from a picture. What you do is you sign a blank sheet of plain white paper, scan it, upload to the computer and import to Acrobat using the signature feature.

[Dualie 185]

Thanks Ian, that is what I was hoping to hear. Yes, Canada has the option to either use EP or snail mail. I am doing EP for fear of lost originals. I will just take my originals to the interview.

[Ian H. 207]

You're welcome. Yes, I agree the EP option is better because it poses less of a risk. When my cousin submitted the IV package for her husband, it was lost in the mail for a week or two, very frustrating. And yes, the catch with EP is that originals are still needed at the interview, but at least for now you can just scan the signature and worry about getting the original later.

[Mandiimoose 39]

Heya! Just wanted to make sure you know you have to scan the whole form because it's security protected when you first download it. But yeah, have your husband just print the page he needs to sign on his end then scan it back in, then scan every other page and put it together in a new PDF. My husband and I did EP and had no problems at all while using online resources to compress our PDFs. Make sure your package is 5MB or less!

Another thing that's protected are the tax transcripts from the IRS website, so if you just downloaded and saved them you either need to find a way to remove the security or print them out and rescan them also.

Edited October 15, 2014 by Mandiimoose

[Dualie 185]

Heya! Just wanted to make sure you know you have to scan the whole form because it's security protected when you first download it. But yeah, have your husband just print the page he needs to sign on his end then scan it back in, then scan every other page and put it together in a new PDF. My husband and I did EP and had no problems at all while using online resources to compress our PDFs. Make sure your package is 5MB or less!

Another thing that's protected are the tax transcripts from the IRS website, so if you just downloaded and saved them you either need to find a way to remove the security or print them out and rescan them also.

Hi Mandi

I downloaded it a long time ago, I forget where from, but I am still able to change and correct things on it with no problem. And yes, I know about those IRS transcripts. Those only open with Adobe Reader. We downloaded them and just saved them to a reduced size PDF. So are you saying they may not be openable at NVC?

[Ian H. 207]

She is saying that you should print them, scan them, and send the scanned versions instead just in case they cannot open the original pdf.

[Dualie 185]

She is saying that you should print them, scan them, and send the scanned versions instead just in case they cannot open the original pdf.

Thanks again, That is precisely what I will do!

[NikLR 13,232]

OR he can fill everything out on his end, print it, sign it, scan it and email that. THEN he needs to mail you the original because you MUST take it with you to interview.

[Dualie 185]

OR he can fill everything out on his end, print it, sign it, scan it and email that. THEN he needs to mail you the original because you MUST take it with you to interview.

I emailed the one I filled out to him. He will go over it, print and sign it, and then scan and email it back to me. I can get the original from him in a couple of weeks, and put it with the rest of the docs. He's still stuck out in Dickinson working so I hope he can get back to Fargo sometime tomorrow. That is literally the only thing I am waiting for now. I have organized these docs to death, lol!

[NikLR 13,232]

I emailed the one I filled out to him. He will go over it, print and sign it, and then scan and email it back to me. I can get the original from him in a couple of weeks, and put it with the rest of the docs. He's still stuck out in Dickinson working so I hope he can get back to Fargo sometime tomorrow. That is literally the only thing I am waiting for now. I have organized these docs to death, lol!

I did the same thing. My husband delayed our AOS submittal by a week because he wouldn't get his butt to the IRS office. Told me that I should have told him that he needed to get these docs. I did, in Oct, in Dec, in Jan, in Feb... LOL /shrugs!

[Dualie 185]

I did the same thing. My husband delayed our AOS submittal by a week because he wouldn't get his butt to the IRS office. Told me that I should have told him that he needed to get these docs. I did, in Oct, in Dec, in Jan, in Feb... LOL /shrugs!

Lol!!! I totally get you! I have done everything up to this point...except the payments, he did that.

[Dualie 185]

Thanks everyone! Got everything done on the weekend, scanned the photos today, and my docs all go out this evening. Then the waiting game begins and I'm off to the NVC thread.

Thanks again guys!

[Shanelle 21]

hmmm, I am just wondering, but, it seems that the husbands have an aversion to filling out the forms, mine included . We were married in July and still haven't got our I-130 submitted yet Thursday night we will be completing the forms via phone call. My portion is complete, so it's his portion of the forms we will be completing.........

I am very anxious to get this ball rolling so that I can be with my husband!! Then, I get overwhelmed by everything that I once knew that had to be done but know I have forgotten because so much time has elapsed. Oy!!