United States Online Nonimmigrant Visa Application (Form DS-160)

Surnames (as in passport)

If the passport does not include a given name, the live form instructs applicants to enter 'FNU' (First Name Unknown).

Have you ever used other names (i.e., maiden, religious, professional, alias, etc.)?

The live form collects up to four other surname/given-name pairs as separate boxes; collapsed here into one free-text field listing each other name used.

Optional; the live form offers a 'Does Not Apply' checkbox for applicants whose name is not written in a non-Latin script, or who use the same alphabet as their passport's Latin transliteration.

Date of birth

Sex

Marital status

City of birth

Optional; the live form offers a 'Does Not Apply' checkbox.

The name of the country currently in use for the applicant's place of birth.

Nationality

Do you hold or have you held a nationality other than the one indicated above?

Other nationality

Optional; the live form offers a 'Does Not Apply' checkbox, alongside equivalent checkboxes for the U.S. Social Security and U.S. Taxpayer ID fields.

U.S. Social Security number

U.S. Taxpayer ID number

Home address (line 1)

Home address (line 2)

Home address — city

Home address — state/province

Home address — postal zone/ZIP code

Home address — country

The mailing address is where the applicant's passport is sent if they qualify for a visa.

Full mailing address (street, city, state/province, postal code, country), collapsed into one field; the live form collects each address component in its own box, mirroring the Home Address fields.

Home phone number

Work phone number

Mobile/cell phone number

Email address

Added to the DS-160 as part of the Department's 2019 Enhanced Vetting update alongside the social-media and additional-email-address questions.

Collapsed free-text list; the live form collects each additional number in its own box.

Have you used any additional email addresses in the last five years?

Collapsed free-text list; the live form collects each additional address in its own box.

The live form names specific social media platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, among others) and asks, per platform, whether the applicant has used it in the preceding five years. Consular officers request only the social media identifier/handle, never a password. Effective 31 May 2019; applicants of certain diplomatic/NATO visa classes (A-1, A-2, C-2, C-3 except attendants/servants/personal employees of accredited officials, G-1 through G-4, NATO-1 through NATO-6) are exempt.

Collapsed platform:handle pairs; the live form collects one identifier per listed platform. Never include a password — the Department has stated it does not request them.

Passport number

Also called the inventory control number; not present on every passport, and its location varies by issuing country. The live form offers a 'Does Not Apply' checkbox.

Country/authority that issued passport

Where was the passport issued — city

Only if shown on the passport.

Where was the passport issued — country

Passport issuance date

In most cases the passport must have at least six months of validity beyond the visa application date and/or the arrival date in the United States.

Have you ever lost a passport or had one stolen?

Optional even when lost/stolen is true; the live form offers a 'Does Not Apply' checkbox for an unknown number.

Country/authority that issued the lost/stolen passport

All visitors for business or pleasure are principal applicants, even if travelling with family. An applicant is not the principal applicant if accompanying a spouse or parent travelling in a visa category permitting them to work, study, or marry.

Principal applicant — surnames

Principal applicant — given names

The live form's 'Purpose of Trip to U.S.' dropdown lists roughly 40 visa-classification categories and sub-types; this enum models a representative subset. Values other than the ones listed are out of scope for this document version — see VERIFICATION.md.

Purpose of trip — other, specify

Address where you will stay in the U.S. (line 1)

U.S. stay address — city

U.S. stay address — state

U.S. stay address — ZIP code

Person/entity paying for your trip

If SELF, this field is skipped on the live form.

Have you made specific travel plans?

Intended length of stay

If unsure, provide an estimate. Collected regardless of whether specific travel plans have been made.

Date of departure from the U.S.

Collected only when the purpose of trip is temporary work.

Employer address (temporary worker)

Monthly salary in USD (temporary worker)

Do you have an application receipt/petition number?

Name of person/company who filed the petition

Given by USCIS after the petition was filed at a USCIS Service Center; 13 characters, the first three of which are letters.

Are there other persons travelling with you?

Are you travelling as part of a group or organization?

Group name

Collapsed list of surname, given names, and relationship for each companion; the live form collects up to eight companions individually, and notes that each companion travelling with the applicant needs their own DS-160.

Have you ever been in the U.S.?

Collapsed list of arrival date and length of stay; the live form collects the last five U.S. visits individually.

Do you or did you ever hold a U.S. driver's license?

Collapsed list; the live form collects up to three prior licenses individually and offers a 'Do Not Know' option for the license number.

Have you ever been issued a U.S. visa?

Date last U.S. visa was issued

Optional; the live form offers a 'Not Known' option.

Are you applying for the same type of visa?

Whether all ten fingerprints were ever taken by U.S. authorities.

Are you applying in the same country where the above visa was issued, and is this your country of residence?

Has your U.S. visa ever been lost or stolen?

Year of lost/stolen U.S. visa

Have you ever been refused a U.S. visa or admission to the U.S., or withdrawn your application for admission at the point of entry?

Explain the visa or admission refusal

Has your U.S. visa ever been cancelled or revoked?

Explain the visa cancellation or revocation

Have you ever filed an immigrant petition with USCIS on your own behalf?

Any individual in the U.S. who knows the applicant and can verify their identity if necessary; if the applicant does not yet know anyone in the U.S., the name of a business or organization to be visited may be given instead.

The live form presents this as a dropdown; no published code list was available at authoring time, so this is modelled as free text rather than an asserted enum.

Point of contact — U.S. address (line 1)

Point of contact — city

Point of contact — state

Point of contact — phone number

Point of contact — email address

Personal information of a third party; handle as sensitive data. The live form offers a 'Do Not Know' option.

Personal information of a third party; handle as sensitive data. The live form offers a 'Do Not Know' option.

Is your father in the U.S.?

The live form presents this as a dropdown; no published code list was available at authoring time, so this is modelled as free text rather than an asserted enum.

Personal information of a third party; handle as sensitive data. The live form offers a 'Do Not Know' option.

Personal information of a third party; handle as sensitive data. The live form offers a 'Do Not Know' option.

Is your mother in the U.S.?

The live form presents this as a dropdown; no published code list was available at authoring time, so this is modelled as free text rather than an asserted enum.

'Immediate relative' means fiancé(e), spouse, child, or sibling.

Do you have any other relatives in the United States?

Collapsed list of surname, given names, relationship, and status; the live form collects up to seven relatives individually.

For a divorced applicant, the live form asks for the previous spouse's information under this same section.

Spouse's nationality

Spouse's date of birth

Spouse's place of birth

The live form presents a dropdown (e.g. same as applicant's home/mailing/U.S. stay address, or other) before collecting street-level detail if 'other'; collapsed here into one resulting-address field.

Date of marriage

Place of marriage (city, state/country)

The live form presents this as a dropdown with an 'Other - Specify' option; no published code list was available at authoring time, so this is modelled as free text rather than an asserted enum.

Not employed

Present employer or school name

Present employer or school address

The live form offers a 'Does Not Apply' checkbox.

Briefly describe your duties

Were you previously employed?

Collapsed list of employer name, job title, address, supervisor, and employment dates; the live form collects up to two previous employers individually.

Have you attended any educational institutions other than elementary schools?

Collapsed list of institution name, address, course of study, and attendance dates; the live form collects up to six institutions individually.

Do you belong to a clan or tribe?

Clan or tribe name

Have you traveled to any countries within the last five years?

Countries visited in the last five years

Have you belonged to, contributed to, or worked for any professional, social, or charitable organization?

Organizations belonged to, contributed to, or worked for

Do you have any specialized skills or training in firearms, explosives, nuclear, biological, or chemical experience?

Explain your specialized skills or training

Have you been involved with a paramilitary, vigilante, rebel, guerrilla, or insurgent organization?

Explain the paramilitary/vigilante/rebel/guerrilla/insurgent involvement

Have you ever served in the military?

Collapsed list of country, branch of service, rank/position, military specialty, and service dates; the live form collects up to four instances of service individually.

Public health significance examples cited on the form include tuberculosis (TB).

Do you have a mental or physical disorder that poses or is likely to pose a threat to the safety or welfare of yourself or others?

Are you or have you ever been a drug abuser or addict?

Have you ever been arrested or convicted for any offense or crime, even though subject of a pardon, amnesty, or other similar action?

Have you ever violated, or engaged in a conspiracy to violate, any law relating to controlled substances?

Are you coming to the United States to engage in prostitution or unlawful commercialized vice, or have you been engaged in prostitution or procuring prostitutes within the past 10 years?

Have you ever been involved in, or do you seek to engage in, money laundering?

Post-2011 addition to the Criminal Information block (Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act-related grounds), not present in the primary 2010-2011 OMB-cleared form text used for the rest of this section; sourced from a secondary compilation, lower confidence than the sibling verbatim questions.

Post-2011 addition; see hasCommittedOrConspiredHumanTrafficking for the sourcing-confidence caveat.

Post-2011 addition; the live form asks this as three near-identical variants (trafficker, presidentially-identified trafficker, controlled-substance trafficker), collapsed here into one field. See hasCommittedOrConspiredHumanTrafficking for the sourcing-confidence caveat.

Do you seek to engage in espionage, sabotage, export control violations, or any other illegal activity while in the United States?

Do you seek to engage in terrorist activities while in the United States, or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities?

Have you ever, or do you intend to, provide financial assistance or other support to terrorists or terrorist organizations?

Are you a member or representative of a terrorist organization?

Have you ever ordered, incited, committed, assisted, or otherwise participated in genocide?

Have you ever ordered, incited, committed, assisted, or otherwise participated in torture?

Have you ordered, incited, committed, assisted, or otherwise participated in extrajudicial killings, political killings, or other acts of violence?

Have you, while serving as a government official, been responsible for or directly carried out, at any time, particularly severe violations of religious freedom?

Post-2011 addition to the Security Information block, not present in the primary 2010-2011 OMB-cleared form text used for the rest of this section; sourced from a secondary compilation, lower confidence than the sibling verbatim questions.

Post-2011 addition; see hasParticipatedInForcedAbortionOrSterilization for the sourcing-confidence caveat.

Have you ever been the subject of a removal or deportation hearing?

Have you ever sought to obtain or assist others to obtain a visa, entry into the United States, or any other United States immigration benefit by fraud or willful misrepresentation or other unlawful means?

Have you ever failed to attend a hearing on removability or inadmissibility within the last five years?

Have you ever been unlawfully present, overstayed the amount of time granted by an immigration official, or otherwise violated the terms of a U.S. visa?

Have you ever withheld custody of a U.S. citizen child outside the United States from a person granted legal custody by a U.S. court?

Have you voted in the United States in violation of any law or regulation?

Have you ever renounced United States citizenship for the purpose of avoiding taxation?

Have you ever attended a public elementary school on student (F) status, or a public secondary school after November 30, 1996 without reimbursing the school?

A YES answer does not automatically signify visa ineligibility, but may require the applicant to personally appear before a consular officer. The live form collects a separate explanation box beside each individual 'Yes' answer; collapsed here into one field covering all of them.

Did anyone assist you in filling out this application?

Preparer's name

Optional; the live form offers a 'Does Not Apply' checkbox.

Preparer's relationship to you

Electronic signature certification; fingerprints are electronically scanned on the day of the interview, at which the applicant certifies all information is accurate.

Electronic signature — full name