FOR VISA AGENCIES

Make every visa case more profitable.

Let clients provide their own information, then review and e-file without your staff spending hours collecting and retyping answers.

Book a 30-minute workflow review with the founder

  • Your team spends about five minutes reviewing, and nothing is filed until they approve it.
  • $15 per client form and no subscription, so your costs follow your caseload. The first one is free.
  • The confirmation page and a PDF of what was filed arrive on their own. Nobody fetches or screenshots them.
Proof

One agency, 200 DS-160s in a busy week

200+
DS-160s filed in a busy week
96%
Less processing time per application
2 h → 5 min
Staff time per application, before and after

Start now! Don't wait until tomorrow.

VizeAmerica.com, a five-person visa agency in Romania
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Before and after

Where your margin goes

Most of what a DS-160 costs your agency is staff time, and typing it into the Consular Electronic Application Center is the smallest part of it.

One DS-160, end to end

TodayWith DS160.ioIntake call, then the follow-up emails40–60 min0Chasing the answers nobody gave20–30 min0Typing it into the consular site20–25 min0Reading it back before it is signed10–15 min5 minStaff time per application1 h 30 – 2 h 10~5 min

Every DS-160 your team files by hand costs another 20–25 minutes at the keyboard, and closer to two hours across the whole case.

The arithmetic

At 20 DS-160s a week

By hand (20 × 25 min):8.3 h/weekThrough DS160.io (20 × 5 min):1.7 h/week
Back to your team:
6.6 h
every week
29 h
every month
350 h
every year

Twenty-nine hours a month is three and a half working days, back, every month.

The weekly arithmetic counts only the time at the keyboard: 25 minutes to type a DS-160 into the consular site, five minutes to review one here. The intake calls and the chasing in the table on the left are on top of that.

Workflow

How it works

Six steps, from the link you send to the record you keep.

01YouStep 1 of 6

You send one link, not a questionnaire and a phone call

Your time
Under a minute
Instead of
A questionnaire attached to an email
How client links and emails work
The Create Client Link screen just after a link was made, with the active links beneath it
02Your clientStep 2 of 6

Your client fills it in on their phone, not your staff

Your time
None of it
Instead of
Chasing a half-filled form by email and phone

The page a client opens from their link, with its language menu and its list of sections

03YouStep 3 of 6

You read the answers instead of retyping them

Your time
About five minutes
Instead of
Twenty to twenty-five minutes of typing into the consular site
What the review covers
A security question in the form, with a Chinese answer and the English wording that will be filed
04ds160.ioStep 4 of 6

We type it into the consular site, not your team

Your time
None of it
Instead of
An hour of copying answers between two windows
The submission panel part-way through a run, with the field count and the section being filled
05ds160.ioStep 5 of 6

We sign it and send back the confirmation

Your time
None of it
Instead of
Being at your desk before the session times out
The confirmation panel with the number returned after submission
06YouStep 6 of 6

You keep a copy of what was filed, not a folder of screenshots

Your time
Under a minute
Instead of
Screenshots in a folder, or nothing at all
What the filed copy contains
The panel that downloads the PDF of the filed application
Languages

Clients answer in their own language

The questionnaire runs in 10 languages. Names, passport numbers and anything the consular site insists on in English stay in English; the rest comes back to you translated, beside what the client actually wrote.

Choose a language to see the client's page in it.

In development: Arabic, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Polish

Example of the page a client opens from their link, with the agency's name and contact details, the DS-160 sections and their progress. Use the language menu to see it in another language.

What you get

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 10 languagesEnglish, Русский, Română, Español, 中文, Tiếng Việt, हिन्दी, Nederlands, Português, Français. 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 itselfWe fill in every page of the official form, captchas included, and keep going when the site times out. 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 client form, and a quiet month costs nothing. Your first one is free.

Unlimited team members, document storage, a history of every field change, and an API if you'd rather create client links from your own system. No subscription, no seat licences, no minimum.

For visa agencies: busy weeks without the backlog

The busy season stops turning into a backlog: the same preparers handle several times the applications, and a group booking no longer eats a week. Clients answer on their phone, in their own language, and agencies tell us their clients prefer it.

What it costs to find out

Try it on a real case before you pay anything

Your first application is free. Send one client the link, review what comes back, and read the confirmation page and the filed PDF yourself. Nothing reaches the State Department until you approve it.

File your first case for free

A card at signup, then the first form is on us.

The alternatives

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 siteE-filing in case softwareds160.io
The client enters their own answersNoVariesYes
The client can answer in their own languageNoVariesYes
Staff read it before anything is filedBy handVariesYes
Filed through to the confirmation pageBy handVariesYes
A PDF of the application as the consular site received itBy handVariesYes
A previous application can be reusedNoVariesYes
Staff time per application~2 hVaries~5 min

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.

Workflow review

See how much staff time each visa case could save

We'll review how your agency files DS-160s today — your volume, your busiest weeks, who checks what — find what can be automated, and map how your open client forms would move into DS160.io.

What we can look at

  • Client intake in your clients' languages
  • Your busiest weeks
  • Checking answers before filing
  • Filing on the consular site
  • Returning clients and prior DS-160s
  • Complex visa types

You leave with a recommended workflow and a migration plan — useful whether or not you use DS160.io.

Agencies that complete a workflow review get onboarding and migration included if they move forward: we set up your workspace and move your open client forms across for you.

Book my workflow review

30 minutes with the founder, not a sales rep. See if DS160.io fits your workflow — no obligation to buy.

Or start on your own — your first client form is free
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