Information Collection

Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration

IC 278693 under ICR 202601-1405-006 · OMB 1405-0185.

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Documents and Forms

Documents and forms in this information collection
Document Name	Document Type
Form DS-260 Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration	Form and Instruction
DS-260 Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration (005) Tab 4 - Proposed DS-260 - 30-day PRA - DS-260 - 2025.pdf	Form and Instruction
(004) Tab 3 – DS-260.pdf DS-260	IC Document
(005) -- Tab 4 – DS-230.pdf DS-230	IC Document

IC Title:

Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration

Agency IC Tracking Number:

Is this a Common Form? No

IC Status: New

Obligation to Respond: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits

CFR Citation: 22 CFR 42.63

Information Collection Instruments:

table that charts list of instruments
Document Type	Form No.	Form Name	Instrument File	URL	Available Electronically?	Can Be Submitted Electronically?	Electronic Capability
Form and Instruction	DS-260				Yes	Yes	Fillable Fileable

Line of Business: International Affairs and Commerce

Subfunction: Foreign Affairs

Privacy Act System of Records

Title: Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration

FR Citation: 90 FR 12851

Number of Respondents: 460,000

Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 0

Affected Public: Individuals or Households

Percentage of Respondents Reporting Electronically: 100 %

table that charts list of burden
	Requested	Program Change Due to Agency Discretion	Change Due to Adjustment in Agency Estimate
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	460,000	-250,000	710,000
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	1,188,333	-645,834	1,834,167
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	2,300,000	-1,250,000	3,550,000

Documents for IC

table that charts IC Documents
Title	Document	Date Uploaded
DS-260		03/30/2022
DS-230		03/30/2022

Blank fields in records indicate information that was not collected or not collected electronically prior to July 2006.

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