AOS Bill

[dbzman 0]

Hello everyone!

I am going to send out my AOS bill on Monday using James Shortcuts.

I have two questions:

1. Is it correct to put CR1 since my wife is immigrating and I used the I-130?

2. Is there a way to read the barcode to double check that it works!

Thanks!

[trailmix 77]

1. Is it correct to put CR1 since my wife is immigrating and I used the I-130?

Yes if you have been married 2 years or less.

2. Is there a way to read the barcode to double check that it works!

No way to check

Good luck!

[Credzba 0]

Hello everyone!

I am going to send out my AOS bill on Monday using James Shortcuts.

I have two questions:

1. Is it correct to put CR1 since my wife is immigrating and I used the I-130?

2. Is there a way to read the barcode to double check that it works!

Thanks!

dbzman there are probably readers out there that will read code 39, but you would have to buy it and by the time it arrived, chances are you would have your original document from NVC.

Follow the directions and you will do okay.

I followed the directions, sent in my fee bill last week, and it was accepted this week.

I have a less than 100$ ink jet printer.

I can attest that it works if you follow the directions correctly.

I will tell you some things I learned.

When James selects the barcode in irfan viewer to crop off the text, it looks like he leaves about 1/16 inch blank space around the outside edge of the barcode. I say this from looking carefully at his sample documents.

When I crop'd the barcode I selected it as close to the barcode as possible. The result of my closer selection is the final barcode in the word document looks slightly larger.

It didn't seem to affect NVC ability to process the fee bill though, so I presume it doesn't matter.

Read up on the code39 specification online if you wish. The summary is the characters are made up of 9 wide and narrow bars. both the white space and the black count as a bar. So long as a narrow bar is about 1/3 the size of a thick bar, the readers will be able to read them. All barcodes begin and end with an "*".

I found if you have access to a laser printer, the end result is much nicer, but as I said. My cheap ink jet did a suitable job.

[dbzman 0]

Credzba,

I was able to find a reader online. All I had to do was past it into the reader and it told me if the bar code was the same as my case number.

This allowed me to back check the bar code after I generated it online.

Thanks!