If you’re eligible for and are pursuing an immigrant visa so you may enter the United States, you and your United States citizen sponsor will begin a potentially lengthy process. What is Form DS-260, the Online Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration Application? We’ll also discuss what you should do after you’ve submitted Form DS-260, and the next several steps in your immigration efforts. This article will broadly discuss the process of filling out Form DS-260, and will generally walk you through how to answer its questions. This form is an important step in the process, and you need to understand where it fits in the larger picture of your immigration efforts, and how to handle filling out and submitting the form to the government.īecause this form is entirely online, it is unique among the several other immigration forms and applications you’ve likely encountered.įor this reason, it is worth discussing some of the implications of this web-based feature.
If you’re an individual who is hoping to enter and immigrate to the United States, you will at some stage of the process encounter Form DS-260, the Online Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration Application.
