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The Department of State recently sent a cable to all diplomatic cruising motorcycle forum and consular posts providing guidance and describing the timeline for deployment of the new electronic DS-260 (Immigrant Visa Application) and DS-261 (Choice of Address and Agent), which replaces the paper-based DS-230 (Application for Immigrant Visa Registration, parts I and II) and the DS-3032 (Choice of Address and Agent). Worldwide use of the DS-260/261 took effect for new cases on September 1, 2013.
The cable notes, among other things, cruising motorcycle forum the availability of software that includes a biometric oath module allowing posts to record an electronic cruising motorcycle forum fingerprint in lieu of a written signature attesting to the oath administered before every immigrant visa interview.
Beneficiaries cruising motorcycle forum submitting new cases that arrive at the National Visa Center (NVC) from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on or after September 1 will be instructed to complete the DS-260/261 in lieu of the DS-230/3032. The State Department will update travel.state.gov to reflect this guidance and will remove the PDF versions of Forms DS-230 and DS-3032 cruising motorcycle forum from public circulation. If a beneficiary submits a DS-230, NVC will instruct him or her to re-submit a DS-260.
The State Department will not require DS-260s for beneficiaries of pipeline cases already in process at NVC on September 1 if: 1) the case has already been documentarily qualified and sent to scheduling, or 2) NVC receives cruising motorcycle forum a single submission of documents that makes a case documentarily qualified. For all other pipeline cases where NVC has occasion to send a checklist of missing documents after September 1, NVC will instruct cruising motorcycle forum petitioners/agents/beneficiaries to submit the DS-260 along with those missing documents, even if a DS-230 was already on file.
Those filing cruising motorcycle forum petitions cruising motorcycle forum locally overseas (with either USCIS or a consular section) on or after September 1 must submit a DS-260 once the petition is approved. Posts should instruct beneficiaries to enter the principal applicant s DOB in YYYYMMDD format in lieu of an Invoice ID on the DS-260 login page.
For cases filed locally overseas before September 1, if beneficiaries have already submitted a DS-230 or received instruction cruising motorcycle forum to do so, the consular post should accept the DS-230. If a consular post has not yet provided beneficiaries instructions on how to submit their applications, the post must require the DS-260. The consular post should not, as a general rule, require the submission of a DS-260 if a valid, signed, unexpired DS-230 is already on file and requiring the DS-260 would result in a 221(g) refusal for an otherwise issuable case.
For Havana Only: Cuban Family Reunification Parole (CFRP) cases are the lone exception to the scenarios described above. The DS-260 will not allow an applicant whose case is not current to access the DS-260. For now, NVC will continue to solicit and accept Form DS-230 from applicants who opt in to the CFRP program.
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