Cut DS-160 processing from 2 hours to 15 minutes.
Your staff stay on casework, with improved speed and accuracy in DS-160 workflows.
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
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 studyWhat comes off your team's plate, and what stays
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.
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, then compare the two applications at the consular site. If ours is not clearly better, 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.
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
How it works
Six steps, from the link you send to the application your firm signs.
You send one link
Create a link for the applicant and send it, or let us email it under your own name and logo. Nothing is installed and your client makes no account — the link is the whole of what they need.
Your client answers on their phone, in their own language
They work through the questions section by section, in whichever of the ten languages they read, and stop and come back as often as they need. Try the language menu on the screen below — it is the real one.
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
Answers written in another language arrive translated, with the original kept beside them so you can check the meaning rather than take it on faith. Change anything that needs changing, and approve.
We fill in every page for you
The application is created on the Consular Electronic Application Center and filled in page by page, field by field, while you watch the count move. Nobody on your side is at the keyboard.
We stop before signing, and your team signs
Turn on stop before signing and the run fills in and checks every page, then halts. Your team opens the application on the consular site, reads it back and signs it. Nothing goes out over your name without someone at the firm having read it.
You keep a copy of what was filed
Every page as it stood on the consular site comes back as a single PDF, so months later you can show exactly what was submitted and when, without logging in anywhere.
Enter a client once. Never again.
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 signature, to the record, and to the client who doesn't read English.
Software that signs a client's application before anyone has read it.
It stops before signature, not after
Turn on Stop before signing and we fill in and check every page, then stop. Your team opens the completed application on the official site, reviews it, has the client approve it, and signs it there.
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.
Days lost chasing clients for answers.
Each client gets their own link
Send the link. They answer the questionnaire. It arrives in your dashboard for review and amendment, then goes out for filing.
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.
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. Answers save as the client types, so a closed tab costs nothing.
- A questionnaire in 10 languagesEnglish, Русский, Română, Español, 中文, Tiếng Việt, हिन्दी, Nederlands, Português, Français. Whatever 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.
- Review and approvalEvery answer is yours to correct first, and you can attach your own guidance to any question clients keep getting wrong.
- The filing itselfWe fill in every page of the official form, captchas included, and keep going when the site times out or throws you back to the start.
- The confirmation pageThe Application ID and confirmation page, in your dashboard the moment the filing lands.
- A PDF of what was filedEvery page as the consular site showed it back. Keep it in the client file or send it on.
- Returning clients and familiesClone a previous application and change what moved — whether the client is back in three weeks or three years. Fill in one family member and clone them for the rest of the household.
- 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.
$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.
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.
See the agency workflowThree 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 | No | 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 | ~1 h | ~15 min |
| How it is priced | Staff time only | 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.
See exactly how DS160.io would fit into your firm
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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| Step Name | Status | Edit |
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| Create Application | Completed | |
| Personal Information - Part 1 | Completed | |
| Personal Information - Part 2 | Completed | |
| Purpose of Visa | Completed | |
| Previous U.S. Travel History | Completed | |
| Passport Information | In Progress | |
| US Contact Information | Pending | |
| Family Information | Pending | |
| Security Background - Part 1 | Pending | |
| Sign and Submit | Pending |
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
CEAC's copy of your application
Everything filed, as one PDF, with the confirmation page once it is signed.