Get DS-160 cases ready for review without overloading your team.
Turn client questionnaires into review-ready DS-160s on the official consular site. DS160.io does the repetitive work on E-1, E-2 and every other visa case, and your firm keeps control of the review and the signature.
Book a 30-minute workflow review with the founder
At twenty cases a month, the intake, the chasing and the typing come to about 35 staff hours.
- We file through to submission, or stop before the signature so your firm signs.
- $15 per DS-160, at any volume. No seat licences, no subscription.
- A record of what the consular site showed and what was filed.
Who is this for?
- Your paralegals retype client answers into the consular site
- You file E-1 and E-2 cases, many with a spouse and children
- Your case software's DS-160 e-filing keeps letting you down
- You are paying a subscription in the months you barely use it
Docketwise handles your cases. Let DS160.io handle your DS-160s.
If its DS-160 e-filing has let your firm down, you don't need to replace your case management software or go back to typing into the Consular Electronic Application Center by hand. Keep the workflow you have, and use DS160.io to get each DS-160 ready for review.
- Can we keep using Docketwise?
- Yes. Your matters, documents and client records stay where they are. DS160.io does one job: taking the DS-160 from the client's answers to the signature.
- What comes across from Docketwise?
- A client's DS-160 answers, E-2 answers included. Print the DS-160 smart form from Docketwise as a PDF and upload it. Before the form is created you see what will import, what to check and what could not come across.
- What doesn't?
- Answers the print masks, such as a Social Security number shown as XXX-XX-1234, are listed for your team to enter by hand. An application already started or filed on the consular site doesn't need Docketwise: import it from CEAC with its Application ID. From a filed one, some answers don't come back (the security questions and the trip, among others); they are listed for your team.
- What about the cases we have open?
- Bring each one across when it comes up for its DS-160. Nothing else has to move, and your history stays in Docketwise. We set the firm up with you before the first live case and stay on hand for the first filings.
DS-160s for E-1 traders, E-2 investors and their dependants
The questionnaire asks the E-Visa questions only when the case needs them, and we fill in the E-Visa pages on the consular site page by page, along with the rest of the form.
E-1 treaty traders
The business profile, the foreign parent, the finance and trade figures, the U.S. personnel and the applicant's position, asked as plain questions and entered for you.
E-2 treaty investors
The same E-Visa pages with the investment in place of trade: what was invested, where the capital came from, and who runs the business in the U.S.
Spouses and children
Each dependant has their own DS-160. Clone the principal's form and the family, address and travel answers are already there, so your staff check only what differs. Each one is billed as one form.
Your team still reviews it
Paralegals and attorneys read and correct every answer before we fill anything in, then read the finished application on the consular site before your firm signs.
Not only E visas: H-1B, L-1, TN, F-1, J-1, B-1/B-2 and their dependants go through the same questionnaire and the same review.
How it works
Six steps, from the link you send to the application your firm signs.
You send one link, not a questionnaire and a phone call
Your client fills it in on their phone, not your staff
The page a client opens from their link, with its language menu and its list of sections
You read the answers instead of retyping them
We type it into the consular site, not your team
We stop before signing, and your team signs
You keep a copy of what was filed, not a folder of screenshots
See the finished application on the consular site before your firm signs.
Turn on Stop before signing and we fill in and check every page of the DS-160, then stop. Your team opens the finished application on the official site, exactly as it will be submitted, and nothing reaches the State Department until your firm signs it.
What stays with your firm
- The final review, page by page
- Any corrections
- The client's approval
- The signature
- The submission
One visa agency measured it: two hours a case, down to five minutes
Start now! Don't wait until tomorrow.
VizeAmerica is a visa agency, not a law firm. What they measured is the part your firm would hand over too: a client's answers going into the consular site, page by page. Your firm keeps the read-back and the signature, and the figures further down count that time as yours.
Read the full case studyYour team has enough cases to handle. DS-160 data entry shouldn't be another bottleneck.
When paralegals are carrying full caseloads, copying questionnaire answers into the consular site is the work that slips and holds cases up. Of the five stages between a client's answers and a signed DS-160, three come off your team. The two that take judgment stay with you.
| Today | With ds160.io | |
|---|---|---|
| Collecting the answers | An intake call, then a fortnight of follow-up emails for the answers nobody gave. | The client answers on their phone, in their own language, and it saves as they type. |
| Typing them into the consular site | Twenty to twenty-five minutes a case, copying out answers your firm already has. | Ours. Every page, with no captchas to enter on the way. |
| The consular site timing out mid-form | Back to the Application ID, find the page you lost, start typing again. | Ours. The run picks itself up and carries on. |
| Reading the application backStays with your firm | Against the questionnaire, on screen, hoping the typing was faithful. | Against the finished application on the government's own site, with a PDF of every page in the file. |
| Signing and submittingStays with your firm | Your firm. | Your firm, at ceac.state.gov. One security code to type. |
Less data entry, fewer cases waiting on it, and more of your team's week for the clients you already have.
What the retyping costs you a month
| Cases a month | Staff hours it takes | Cost to buy it back |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | ~35 h | $300 |
| 50 | ~88 h | $750 |
| 100 | ~175 h | $1,500 |
Each DS-160 at $15 gives back about 1 hour 45 of staff time. At fifty a month, $750 buys back about 88 hours of intake, chasing and typing.
1 hour 45 is the intake, the chasing and the typing into the consular site; two hours is the whole job, read-back included. Your own read-back is not counted as time saved, because your firm still does it — that is the point of stopping before the signature.
Three ways a DS-160 gets filed
Today a DS-160 is either typed into the consular site by hand or e-filed from case software. Here is what each one leaves your team to do.
| By hand at the consular site | E-filing in case software | ds160.io | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The client enters their own answers | No | Varies | Yes |
| The client can answer in their own language | No | Varies | Yes |
| Staff read it before anything is filed | By hand | Varies | Yes |
| Filed through to the confirmation page | By hand | Varies | Yes |
| A PDF of the application as the consular site received it | By hand | Varies | Yes |
| A previous application can be reused | No | Varies | Yes |
| Staff time per case, your read-back included | ~2 h | Varies | ~15 min |
| How it is priced | Staff time only | Usually per seat, per month | Per DS-160 created |
E-filing built into case management varies by product and by visa type, and some of it fills part of the DS-160 and leaves the rest to whoever is at the keyboard. The middle column assumes that: the software does some of the typing, your team does the intake, the corrections and the finishing. Check yours against the rows above before you compare prices.
Don't rebuild returning clients from scratch.
The first DS-160 for a client is answered once — usually by the client, in their own language. Every application after it starts as a clone of that one: tick the sections that still hold, redo the ones that changed.
A client you filed on a TN three years ago is back, this time on an E-2. Different visa, different trip, same person: the personal details, the family, the previous travel and the work history are already there, so your staff redo what changed and nothing else.
Cloning reuses applications already in DS160.io. A client coming from Docketwise starts from their imported answers; a DS-160 filed anywhere else can be imported from CEAC with its Application ID, as long as CEAC still has it.
Clone an application
Every section is a tick box. Untick what has changed.
- Personal informationReuse
- FamilyReuse
- Previous U.S. travelReuse
- Work and educationReuse
- Address and phone
- Trip and visa type
Four things firms check first
What the firm reads before filing and keeps after it, the firm's own rules, and the form itself when the consular site changes.
Reviewing an application one screen at a time.
Every DS-160 as a PDF, under your firm's name
Download a case's DS-160 at any stage as a numbered PDF, set like a scientific paper: every answer in the order the form asks it, with your logo, email and phone on the title page and in each footer. Mark it up for the attorney, send it to the client to check, or keep it in the file, in any of thirteen languages.
Everyone filing their own way.
Set the filing policy once for the firm
Owners and admins decide whether applications stop for review before signature, what the consular security answer is, and what goes in the preparer section — once, for the whole workspace, instead of per person per form.
We take DS-160 data entry and consular filing off your team
We take on the work from the client's first answer to the confirmation page in the file. Your staff review the answers; they do not type them.
- A link for every clientSent from your address, with reminders for the ones who never open it, so nobody on your team chases a half-filled form. Answers save as the client types.
- A questionnaire in 13 languagesEnglish, Русский, Română, Español, 中文, Tiếng Việt, हिन्दी, Nederlands, Português, Français, Türkçe, 日本語, Deutsch. Clients answer without an interpreter or a phone call, and what they write comes back to you in English.
- Your name on it, not oursYour logo, your domain, your email address. The client never sees DS160.io, so the relationship stays yours.
- Review and approvalEvery answer is yours to correct first. Attach your own guidance to the questions clients keep getting wrong, and stop answering them one call at a time.
- The filing itselfEvery page filled in, no captchas to enter, timeouts handled. Nobody on your team sits through it.
- The confirmation pageThe Application ID and confirmation page in your dashboard the moment the filing lands, without anyone logging in to fetch them.
- A PDF of what was filedEvery page as the consular site showed it back, ready for the client file, instead of screenshots taken by hand.
- Returning clients and familiesClone a previous application and change what moved, so a returning client or the rest of a family is a few minutes of checking, not another application from scratch.
- Stop before signingOptional: we fill in and check every page, then leave the signature to your team at ceac.state.gov.
- Help getting your cases overMoving from another system, or part-way through a batch? Tell us what you have and we'll help you bring it across, so the switch does not cost your team a week.
$15 per DS-160. No seat licences, no monthly subscription.
- $15 for each form your firm creates: one applicant, one DS-160
- Unlimited team members, so the whole firm can use it
- No subscription and no minimum: a month with no new cases costs nothing
- The same $15 at ten forms a month or five hundred
- Your first form is free
Ten DS-160s a month is $150, fifty is $750. An E-2 investor with a spouse and two children is four forms, $60.
For immigration firms: room in the week for the cases you have
The DS-160 stops being the task that queues behind everything else. Your paralegals review the answers instead of typing them, and nothing is signed until someone at the firm has read the application at the source.
See if it works on your next case. Your first one is free.
Put DS160.io to the test on a real application, and read the finished DS-160 on the consular site before you decide anything about the rest of your cases.
Run one case in parallel
Run your next DS-160 here alongside your usual process. You are not trying software: you are checking that the repetitive work can leave your team without the review going with it. If it does not hold up, stop there. Signup takes a card; the first form is on us.
What to compare
- The staff time the case took
- Whether the finished application is complete
- How the review went on the consular site
- Whether the signature stayed with your firm
- Whether the filed PDF works in the client file
You do not need to
- Replace your case management system
- Move the matters you have open
- Train the whole firm
- Sign up to anything monthly
- Let software sign for your client
What firms ask before they switch
- Does DS160.io handle E-1 and E-2 applications?
- Yes. The questionnaire asks the E-Visa questions when the visa needs them, and we fill in the E-Visa pages on the consular site along with the rest of the DS-160.
- Does it handle E-2 dependants?
- Yes. Each spouse and child has their own DS-160, cloned from the principal's so the shared answers carry over. Each is billed as one form.
- Can we use it alongside Docketwise?
- Yes. Keep your case management in Docketwise and use DS160.io for the DS-160. To bring a client across, upload the DS-160 smart form printed from Docketwise as a PDF.
- What if an import cannot read our PDF?
- Nothing is lost and nothing is charged: no form is created until an import works. Create the form and enter the answers by hand, as you do today. When an import does work, it lists any answers it could not read, so you know what to check. Tell us when it refuses a PDF and we will look at why.
- Can clients fill in the questionnaire themselves?
- Yes, on their phone, in any of 13 languages, from a link sent from your firm's address. What they write comes back to you in English.
- Can paralegals review and correct the answers?
- Yes. Every answer can be read and corrected before we fill anything in, and each change is kept in the form's field history.
- Can we stop before signing?
- Yes. Turn on Stop before signing for the firm and we stop at the signature. Your team opens the application on the consular site, checks it and signs it there.
- What happens if the consular site times out?
- The run picks itself up and carries on where it stopped. If something on the DS-160 breaks on our side, we fix it within 24 hours.
- Do we pay per application or per user?
- Per application: $15 for each DS-160 your firm creates, with unlimited team members, no subscription and no minimum. The price is the same at any volume.
- Can we test one case without changing how we work?
- Yes. Your first form is free. Run your next DS-160 here alongside your usual process and compare the two.
- What happens to our clients' information?
- Applicants' answers are encrypted at rest and held in the United States. Each application keeps a PDF of every page the consular site showed back, for your client file. Who can access it, and which providers process it.
Your next DS-160, ready for review. On us.
Keep your case software. Send one client the questionnaire, or import the answers you already have, and DS160.io fills in the consular site. Your firm reads the finished application before anyone signs, and decides from there.
Test your next DS-160 for freeA card at signup, then your first DS-160 is on us. No subscription, nothing to migrate, no call needed.
Find out which DS-160 work can come off your team
We'll review how your firm files DS-160s today — your case mix, who reviews what, what has to move across — find what can be automated, and map how your open cases and prior DS-160s would move into DS160.io.
What we can look at
- Prior DS-160 PDFs
- Moving from your current software
- Client intake
- Attorney and paralegal review
- E-filing on the consular site
- Stopping before signature
- Complex visa types
You leave with a recommended workflow and a migration plan — useful whether or not you use DS160.io.
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The fields DS160.io fills on the official DS-160 site for the sample B-1/B-2 form, sped up.
| Step Name | Status | Edit |
|---|---|---|
| Address and Phone Details | Completed | |
| Passport Information | In Progress |
Ready to review and sign
Filled in and unsigned, as asked. Open it on the DS-160 site with the Application ID below, check it, then sign and submit there.
The Sign and Submit page still needs the passport number, and the certification box if it appears.
Application ID: AA00EXAMPL