A visitor visa is decided in a three-minute interview, and it turns on two things: answers that hold together, and evidence that the applicant is coming back. The DS-160 itself is submitted online at the State Department's own site — nobody can file it for your client. What Lexfill does is everything on either side of that: it collects the full answer set for your team to transcribe, builds the ties evidence into an interview binder, and flags the contradictions that draw a 214(b) refusal.
Nobody files a DS-160 for a client — the applicant signs and submits it themselves, under penalty of perjury. The work that decides the case happens before that: getting every answer right, and walking into the interview with the evidence that answers the officer's real question.
Your client answers the DS-160's whole question set as a guided walk — identity and passport, travel plans, past U.S. visits and any refusal, family, work and education, the social media accounts the government now requires, and all 27 security questions. Each one is worded the way a person would ask it, and the answers land in your console laid out in the order the official site asks for them.
The ties evidence is the case. Lexfill's checklist asks for the pieces an officer actually weighs — employment, funds, property, family — and reads each upload as it arrives. Documents in another language become certified English translations without leaving the file.
Because the DS-160 lives on the State Department's site, Lexfill's output is the two things that get used there: a reviewed answer set your paralegal transcribes straight through, and the binder your client carries to the window — with the photo rules, the fee, and the confirmation-page steps written out so nothing is discovered at the counter.
Visitor visas are refused for contradictions, not for bad facts. An undisclosed prior refusal, a trip story that doesn't match who is paying for it, a stay longer than the leave the employer letter grants — Lexfill reads the answers against each other and against the documents, and says what it found in a sentence.
No — and neither can anyone else. The DS-160 is completed and submitted online at the State Department's Consular Electronic Application Center, and the applicant must electronically sign and submit it personally under 22 C.F.R. 41.103. An attorney may prepare it, so Lexfill collects and reviews the complete answer set and lays it out in the order the site asks for it; your team transcribes it and the client signs.
B-1 covers temporary business — meetings, conferences, negotiations — and B-2 covers tourism, visiting family, and medical treatment. Neither permits employment. Most applicants are issued a combined B-1/B-2 visa, and the application itself offers exactly three choices: business or tourism together, business alone, or tourism and medical treatment.
Because most refusals are under INA 214(b) — the applicant did not show strong enough ties to their home country. Evidence of employment, funds, property, and family is what answers that, so Lexfill treats those as required rather than optional and leaves the situational items (a deed, an invitation letter, medical records) for your team to curate per client.
Yes. Every visa applicant must list the accounts they have used in the last five years, from a fixed list of platforms. Lexfill asks for them plainly — the account name only, never a password — because an omitted account the consulate finds later is treated as misrepresentation.
That is a different filing: an extension or change of status inside the United States runs on Form I-539 with USCIS, not through the consulate. This case type covers the consular side — the application, the evidence, and the interview.
No. Lexfill prepares and organizes the record and surfaces what looks inconsistent. Every judgment — whether the ties are strong enough, how to explain a prior refusal, whether to apply at all — is your team's.
Yes. Lexfill integrates with Clio directly: connect your account, import your contacts and matters in a click, and push completed work back to Clio when you're done. On a different vendor? We'll do your migration for free — our team moves your clients and matters into Lexfill for you, usually within a few days.
The same guided intake, document intelligence, and review flags — tuned to each case type you handle.
Create your firm workspace, collect the full DS-160 answer set and the ties evidence in one place, and hand your client a binder instead of a checklist.