Now that I've finally had time to read what is being proposed this is NOT going to make the process any easier and in fact will make it more difficult.

BTW, the article talks about form 5320.1 which is NOT the form to apply for SBR. That is a Form 1. Form 5320.1 is the form to Certify your Compliance with the Citizenship required for Form 1 to be processed. They want to change the format to 8.5x14? Fuck that shit! They just keep doing little things to make it more and more difficult to jump through all the hoops. Now they're adding another hoop (how many of you have the ability to print 8.5 x 14" documents front & back easily) under the guise of streamlining? This shit is SO annoying! This doesn't streamline shit... it makes it even more complicated for the average Joe to print off the forms he needs at home and prepare them for sending off. The debit/credit card versus check thing is pointless and saves zero time. With recent changes in laws to how checks are processed it takes a couple of days for out-of-state checks to clear and it takes about the same time for a credit card charge to clear a ACH anyway. Funds are actually in their account at the same time and you know they're not budging until they get paid either way. Hell, if they wanted they could 'instantly' and electronically process your checks upon receipt in the exact same way they process credit/debit cards currently.