DS230 form expiring at the end of July

[alongjourney 0]

Hi, our AOS bill and Choice of agent form was generated on June 25 and I emailed my choice of agent (my husband) info on June 4. I have not heard back from NVC about accepting my choice of agent.

I was going to go ahead and download and fill out the DS230 and mail it to my husband, so when the DS230 packet comes to him, he can mail it back right away. ...then I noticed the form expired at the end of this month.

Do they really reject the form after July 07?

With the choice of agent email sent out on June 4th, is it likely that the DS230 package gets generated before the end of July? (Assuming the DS230 bill gets sent back right after my husband receives it ASAP, but not using James's shortcut)

Should I wait until August (when there is a new version of the form - hopefully) to complete the form and send it to him?

Any thoughts/comments/suggestions would be appreciated! Thank you,

[Credzba 0]

Hi, our AOS bill and Choice of agent form was generated on June 25 and I emailed my choice of agent (my husband) info on June 4. I have not heard back from NVC about accepting my choice of agent.

I was going to go ahead and download and fill out the DS230 and mail it to my husband, so when the DS230 packet comes to him, he can mail it back right away. ...then I noticed the form expired at the end of this month.

Do they really reject the form after July 07?

With the choice of agent email sent out on June 4th, is it likely that the DS230 package gets generated before the end of July? (Assuming the DS230 bill gets sent back right after my husband receives it ASAP, but not using James's shortcut)

Should I wait until August (when there is a new version of the form - hopefully) to complete the form and send it to him?

Any thoughts/comments/suggestions would be appreciated! Thank you,

Usually they accept older forms.

You have nothing really to loose, if you mail it to him, and the new form is different than this old form, then he has to get you to fill it out.

If it isn't different, then he can just mail it in.

I would bet the only change in August will be the new fee amount, because all the fees are changing July 31

[Mononoke28 135]

Did you e-mail them regarding your choice of agent before it was generated? I see that you e-mailed them on 06/04 and it was generated 06/25, that's probably the reason why you haven't heard anything from them.

Unfortunately, your DS-230 won't get generated until August if they approve your choice of agent soon. I sent my IV fee bill on 06/22, they received it on 06/23 and they still haven't generated my DS-230. The NVC said it would be some time this week but I'm thinking it won't be until next Monday.

[simple_male 1]

Hi, our AOS bill and Choice of agent form was generated on June 25 and I emailed my choice of agent (my husband) info on June 4. I have not heard back from NVC about accepting my choice of agent.

I was going to go ahead and download and fill out the DS230 and mail it to my husband, so when the DS230 packet comes to him, he can mail it back right away. ...then I noticed the form expired at the end of this month.

Do they really reject the form after July 07?

With the choice of agent email sent out on June 4th, is it likely that the DS230 package gets generated before the end of July? (Assuming the DS230 bill gets sent back right after my husband receives it ASAP, but not using James's shortcut)

Should I wait until August (when there is a new version of the form - hopefully) to complete the form and send it to him?

Any thoughts/comments/suggestions would be appreciated! Thank you,

Don't worry about the expiration date of July 07 on DS 230.

[alongjourney 0]

Sorry for the confusion! It was July 4th (or 3rd U.S. time) that I sent the choice of agent email.

Thank you for your comments. I'll be waiting for more!

[vylex 0]

I noticed the same thing but had my wife fill out and mail me the form anyway yesterday. The DS-230 probably won't get generated for us until August but I'll compare the two. If nothing new has changed I will just call the NVC and confirm if it's ok to use the July one since it's only the date that has changed.

[simple_male 1]

I noticed the same thing but had my wife fill out and mail me the form anyway yesterday. The DS-230 probably won't get generated for us until August but I'll compare the two. If nothing new has changed I will just call the NVC and confirm if it's ok to use the July one since it's only the date that has changed.

Don't even bother notifying the NVC. They discourage applicants to use any downloaded forms. But they don't reject any downloaded forms. I know, even the Embassy mails DS 230 forms that were expired years ago. I noticed the DS 230 forms that the Embassy mailed my wife had one month of 2005 as its expiration date.

[vylex 0]

I noticed the same thing but had my wife fill out and mail me the form anyway yesterday. The DS-230 probably won't get generated for us until August but I'll compare the two. If nothing new has changed I will just call the NVC and confirm if it's ok to use the July one since it's only the date that has changed.

Don't even bother notifying the NVC. They discourage applicants to use any downloaded forms. But they don't reject any downloaded forms. I know, even the Embassy mails DS 230 forms that were expired years ago. I noticed the DS 230 forms that the Embassy mailed my wife had one month of 2005 as its expiration date.

Interesting. As long as there is no new piece of information needed I won't sweat it then. Thanks.

[Erica 0]

They discourage applicants to use any downloaded forms.

Actually, they are now sending URL's instead of forms so you can/have to download the forms yourself. At least, my husband told me both the I-864 and DS-230 'packet' were just letters with the link to the travel.state.gov website.

[Jasmin 1]

That's very interesting news, Erica. Thanks for sharing that.

[Mononoke28 135]

Yep... just urls which we knew of ahead of time anyway.

[Jasmin 1]

But what happens then if you use the form that's only valid until the end of this month? I doubt they'll be posting a new one right away..

Edited July 11, 2007 by Jasmin

[Mononoke28 135]

If there isn't a new one, then you can still use the old one.

[Stabu 0]

Actually, they are now sending URL's instead of forms so you can/have to download the forms yourself. At least, my husband told me both the I-864 and DS-230 'packet' were just letters with the link to the travel.state.gov website.

This happened to us too when we where trying to do DCF in August 2006. I asked for an immigrant information packet (or equal) and in responce they sent me an .html-file that contained links to various forms online and very breaf directions what to do in order to do an DCF in Helsinki, Finland.

(The story actually had a rather sad ending. In August 2006 the embassy where on vocation, so I couldn't get an appointment for my wife via phone nor via e-mail, altough we tried several times. My wife had to return to Germany then and she later went back home to the US. We agreed to file a DCF in January 2007, but two weeks before my wife's sceduled appointment the Adam Welsh Act was signed, which made DCF impossible for a few months. So we ended up going for an CR-1 visa joining process that seems to take (for us) about 9 to 10 months. DCF in Helsinki would have taken only 2.)

[alongjourney 0]

Actually, they are now sending URL's instead of forms so you can/have to download the forms yourself. At least, my husband told me both the I-864 and DS-230 'packet' were just letters with the link to the travel.state.gov website.

I thought (maybe my misunderstanding), I-864 form that NVC sends out used to have a barcode, so unless doing James' shortcut and creating the barcode ourselves (which we felt like we weren't up for), we had to wait for the form to come and then complete it. In contrast, DS 230's form itself did not have a barcode but it had a separate coverletter with a barcode.

Does this mean that my husband can go ahead and download and start completing the I-864 now (before the package comes) also? Is there a barcode involved in the new I-864 packet (with the link to download the forms)?