Questions About Electronic Filing of DS-156...

[TucsonBill 0]

Thailand recently, (as of Nov 1), started requiring that the DS-156 be completed online, and pritned out with a bar code. There have been alot of quesitons about this form on the SAWASDEE2 thread in the "Fiance Visa Genral Discussion Forum", as no one yet has reported back how the interviews have gone with this new form. Have other places been requireing this? If anyone knows, I have some questions:

1. On question 16 my fiance has no fax or pager number, but the blank will not accept anything but numerical entries, but it also says every question must be answered (in the instructions we received) or to put "NOT APPLICABLE" and not to put "N/A" - seems rather picky!

2. In relation to the above, my fiances address has a "/" character in it, but the space provided for the address will not accept the "/" character, (illegal character on the electonic form) - so we had to write the address number like "12 slash 34 Main Street" (so maybe thats why they say to write 'NOT APPLICABLE and not to write N/A' for questions that don't apply).

My over all question is, how damn picky are they really going to be at the interview if you have written information on the form that you could not enter over the computer.

Additionally, I'd like to know of you make a mistake, can you re-do the form. When you save it and print it it gets bar coded, so I think if you tried to re-do it it might mess up the process...

Anyone know the answer to any of these questions?

Bill

Edited December 17, 2006 by TucsonBill