I-129F bar code question

[superphish 0]

Hi Everyone, I have noticed when I am looking at the I-129f form in Adobe reader there is a bar code at the bottom of every page of the form, but when I print it out the bar code is gone. Is this a specific issue with my software or does the bar code just go away? would you mail it without a bar code if it should be there?

Thanks, Michael

[bruno. 4]

Hi Everyone, I have noticed when I am looking at the I-129f form in Adobe reader there is a bar code at the bottom of every page of the form, but when I print it out the bar code is gone. Is this a specific issue with my software or does the bar code just go away? would you mail it without a bar code if it should be there?

Thanks, Michael

Hi, there is only a bar-code at the bottom of the 1st page on the form my fiancée sent. It is on the printed page but is not readable by a scanner because of the quality of the printing. We didn't have a problem with this. I didn't even really paid attention to this matter until now so I would have sent it with or without bar-code.

That said, maybe someone here knows more specifically what this bar-code is for and if it is really important that it is printed.

Good luck for your journey

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

The bar code just contains the form number and revision date. It's not like the two-dimensional bar code on the DS-156 that contains actual encoded data from the form. Try clicking on it in Adobe Reader and you'll see what I mean.

I doubt USCIS makes any productive use of the bar code. Since all of the forms are now distributed online, and people are printing them at home, I would imagine a fair percentage of the I-129F's they receive don't have a readable barcode, mainly because many inkjet printers can't print lines that thin.