The I-130 and I-130A are expired??

[Bluepanda92 33]

Anyone know what program I can use to fill out the forms as they are pdf I cant seem to figure out how to fil them out on computer thanks

Just downloaded the I-130 and I-130A from the official USCIS website and at the top it says it expires 07/31/2018
Where do i get ones that will expire in 2019 or 2020?? 

Edited August 23, 2018 by Bluepanda92

[saladboye 166]

You can always subscribe for Adobe Acrobat Pro. Drawback is it will be subscription based but one month to finish up 130 should be fine. You will prbably wanna renew again for other forms in future

 

If you have a MacOS, I strongly recommend PDFExpert as it is a one time fee and has student discounts. They also have iPad apps which are awesome and support cloud sync.

[geowrian 22,338]

That's the OMB expiration for comment. You are not the Office of Management and Budget. USCIS goes by edition dates in the lower left corner of the forms. The USCIS website page for the form lists accepted edition dates.

[Bluepanda92 33]

3 minutes ago, geowrian said:

That's the OMB expiration for comment. You are not the Office of Management and Budget. USCIS goes by edition dates in the lower left corner of the forms. The USCIS website page for the form lists accepted edition dates.

the date on the lower left is for 2017 is that an expire date or just the date it was made or somthing is it still ok to use it? thanks

[geowrian 22,338]

8 minutes ago, Bluepanda92 said:

the date on the lower left is for 2017 is that an expire date or just the date it was made or somthing is it still ok to use it? thanks

It's the edition date, which is usually the date the form was released. It is not an expiration date.

[pushbrk 13,174]

7 hours ago, saladboye said:

You can always subscribe for Adobe Acrobat Pro. Drawback is it will be subscription based but one month to finish up 130 should be fine. You will prbably wanna renew again for other forms in future

 

If you have a MacOS, I strongly recommend PDFExpert as it is a one time fee and has student discounts. They also have iPad apps which are awesome and support cloud sync.

Best to disregard the above, as it is not relevant to your question.  The forms don't expire.  If they are the latest issued, they are the correct forms.  Everything you need to do with the forms can be done quite well with Adobe Reader, which is free from Adobe.

[saladboye 166]

3 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

Best to disregard the above, as it is not relevant to your question.  The forms don't expire.  If they are the latest issued, they are the correct forms.  Everything you need to do with the forms can be done quite well with Adobe Reader, which is free from Adobe.

No .

 

 

OP edited it after I posted my comment. 

 

Also the forms are not fillable like the N400. You can use annotations (which is technically not filling forms) as a work around but it is a pain to work with it.

But the acrobat form fill is really nice, it will detect for fields and match the font and make life easy overall. No matching font size, resizing annotations and moving them around one pixel at a time to get it to fit perfectly.

 

And for $15 a month it is probably worthwhile for one month to fill all needed forms just for the ease of use and the time it saves.

 

Just my two cents.

 

 

 

[pushbrk 13,174]

4 minutes ago, saladboye said:

No .

 

 

OP edited it after I posted my comment. 

 

Also the forms are not fillable like the N400. You can use annotations (which is technically not filling forms) as a work around but it is a pain to work with it.

But the acrobat form fill is really nice, it will detect for fields and match the font and make life easy overall. No matching font size, resizing annotations and moving them around one pixel at a time to get it to fit perfectly.

 

And for $15 a month it is probably worthwhile for one month to fill all needed forms just for the ease of use and the time it saves.

 

Just my two cents.

 

There are some known issues with all the forms, but the worst case is some fields must be hand written to get the necessary information in them.  All this can be done with Adobe Reader for free.  Still NOTHING to do with "expiration dates" on forms.  The forms are not expired.  The expiration date is not for the forms.  Use the edition date and compare it to what USCIS says about which edition date is current and whether they will accept any earlier versions.  All this information is right next to the download links.

[saladboye 166]

4 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

There are some known issues with all the forms, but the worst case is some fields must be hand written to get the necessary information in them.  All this can be done with Adobe Reader for free.  Still NOTHING to do with "expiration dates" on forms.  The forms are not expired.  The expiration date is not for the forms.  Use the edition date and compare it to what USCIS says about which edition date is current and whether they will accept any earlier versions.  All this information is right next to the download links.

Did you bother reading the strikeout part in OP? The red part below?

 

I replied to red part below and then OP edited it.

 

 

7 hours ago, Bluepanda92 said:

Anyone know what program I can use to fill out the forms as they are pdf I cant seem to figure out how to fil them out on computer thanks

Just downloaded the I-130 and I-130A from the official USCIS website and at the top it says it expires 07/31/2018
Where do i get ones that will expire in 2019 or 2020?? 

 

[pushbrk 13,174]

2 minutes ago, saladboye said:

Did you bother reading the strikeout part in OP? The red part below?

 

I replied to red part below and then OP edited it.

 

No, I don't usually "bother" reading strikeouts in posts.  But now I understand your answer.