Keep attorneys and paralegals focused on casework.
Take repetitive DS-160 intake and data entry off your team while keeping review and signing control with your firm.
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 a case. No seat licences, no subscription, no minimum.
- A record of what the consular site showed and what was filed.
Who is this for?
- Your staff retype client answers into the consular site
- You have repeat clients — a TN today, an E-2 three years from now
- Your immigration software's e-filing keeps falling over
- You are paying a subscription in the months you barely use it
Take the administrative work off your team. Keep the legal judgment.
Five stages sit between a client's answers and a DS-160 filed at the Consular Electronic Application Center. Three of them stop being your firm's work. Two of them are judgment, and they stay exactly where they are.
| 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, captchas included. |
| 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. |
We do the typing. Your firm keeps the review and the signature.
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 case at $15 gives back about 1 hour 45 of staff time. At fifty cases 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.
Review it where it matters: on the consular site.
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 studyHow 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
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. A family of five travelling together works the same way — one questionnaire, four clones.
Cloning reuses applications that are already in ds160.io. A DS-160 filed somewhere else cannot be imported yet, so a client you are bringing across is entered here once and reused from then on. Moving a batch? Tell us what you have and we will help.
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
The questions firms ask first
What happens to the record, to the firm's own rules, and to the form itself when the consular site changes.
No proof of what was actually submitted.
A record of exactly what was filed
When a filing finishes you get the consular site's own copy: a PDF of every page it showed back for the application, plus the confirmation page. Keep it in the client file or send it to the client.
DS-160 filing as one small feature of a large system.
The DS-160 is not on our roadmap. It is the roadmap.
One form is all we do. When the consular site adds a question, renames a page or changes what an E visa has to answer, that is the week's work, not a ticket queued behind someone else's billing module. When a broad platform's e-filing breaks or fills only part of the form, your paralegals finish it by hand; we exist so they don't.
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 a case — one applicant, one DS-160 — and your first one is free. What you pay tracks the cases you file, not the people you employ.
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 immigration firms: keep your team on casework
Your staff stay on casework instead of consular data entry, and the signature stays where it belongs. Turn on Stop before signing and nothing is signed until someone at the firm has read the application at the source.
Prove it on one real case before you change anything
Nothing about the way you work now has to move until you have watched one filing come out right.
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.
E-file broken and cases waiting?
When your case system's e-filing breaks, your cases wait on someone else's release cycle. Send the client the questionnaire instead. The DS-160 is the only thing we work on, and we fix what breaks on it within 24 hours.
Priced on your cases, not your seats
$15 a case — one applicant, one DS-160 — invoiced for the cases your firm creates. No seat licences: add the whole firm, and a month with no new cases costs nothing.
We don't hand you a login and disappear
We are on hand for your first live filings, and if you are coming from another system, tell us what you have under way and we will help you get the firm running on it.
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
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 case filed |
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.
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.
30 minutes with the founder, not a sales rep. See if DS160.io fits your workflow — no obligation to buy.
Or give us one case — your first application is freeSetting up your workspace?
Step-by-step guides on workspace setup, client intake, e-filing, whitelabel, and billing.
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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 your workspace asks. 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