I-864 form: Irrelevant fields & Insufficient space for phone number

[pbz 11]

Hi,

I'm filling out the I-864 Affidavit of Support form (dated 07/02/2015) and ran into some confusion. I would appreciate any help or input.

1. Should I leave the fields that are irrelevant to me blank or should I type 'N/A' for these?
   
   The I-864 Instructions says "If a question does not apply to you, type or print “N/A,”unless otherwise directed". I have also read elsewhere online from people who said they had received a checklist for leaving items on the I-864 blank and advised to enter "N/A".
   
   However, on the new I-864 form, there are many fields which DO NOT allow me to type "N/A" (specifically, it doesn't allow the slash "/") such as Accompanying Family Members in Part 3, Interpretator information in Part 9 and Preparor information in Part 10.
   
   
2. On Part 2, Item 7, which is for the telephone number of the principal immigrant, the form allows entering only 10 digits but the mobile phone numbers in China are 11 digits! So the form does not allow me to enter the last digit of the Chinese mobile number.
   
   I have thought about printing the completed form to another PDF and then use the Typerwriter function in Acrobat Pro, to manually type in the 11 digit phone number in that space. However dong so will not update the 2D barcode at the bottom of the page which USCIS (and probably NVC) seems to use to capture the data from the form.

I'm curious to know how others have done or would do for these issues. Thank you.

[Mick & Janni 11]

I think you can fill in as much as possible on your PC, then you print the form and fill in the rest (like the phone number).

[pbz 11]

I think you can fill in as much as possible on your PC, then you print the form and fill in the rest (like the phone number).

Thanks for your reply, Mick & Janni.

Printing and handwriting the problmeatic fields like the phone number is an option and if an actual human reads/processes the form, then it should be fine. But it won't work if they only scan the 2D barcode at the bottom of the page to capture the data in the form, as the barcode is only updated by what is actually typed in the form fields.

I wonder if anyone know if the I-864 is read over by a human at the NVC or if they just scan the 2D barcode?