Using Credit Card to pay Filing Fees for more than one I-130 at a time

[pushbrk 12,876]

Just a note about using cards to file more than one petition at a time.  When a bank, Capital One for example sees two charges for the same amount from the same "merchant" it triggers an alert requiring a response from the cardholder in a timely manner.  Without the timely response, the charge is declined, resulting in the file being returned to sender.  The same CAN happen for large single charges when purchasing from a NEW merchant.  In this case the merchant is Dept. of Homeland Security.

[RandyW 149]

5 hours ago, pushbrk said:

Just a note about using cards to file more than one petition at a time.  When a bank, Capital One for example sees two charges for the same amount from the same "merchant" it triggers an alert requiring a response from the cardholder in a timely manner.  Without the timely response, the charge is declined, resulting in the file being returned to sender.  The same CAN happen for large single charges when purchasing from a NEW merchant.  In this case the merchant is Dept. of Homeland Security.

Sounds like a good reason to not use Capitol One. I can't imagine that that is an issue with credit cards in general. Perhaps with a NEW card, but not one that you've used fairly actively.

 

Anyway, it of course wouldn't hurt to simply use two different cards.