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Kyle was your wife born in Wuhan or in another city in Hubei? I was under the impression that the birth and police certificate had to come from your offical city of residence (since many Chinese do not change their registered residence even if they move somewhere else). I also thought that you only could get the Marriage Certificate (and get married) in the FA office of the province capital. At least this is how it worked for my wife and I - she is from Hubei but not Wuhan.

The "word of mouth" is very strong in China and the Chinese ...

Try ctrip.com, qunar.com, and flychina.com. Elong and Qunar are known to have one price listed but the "seats not available" when you try to book but sometimes you get lucky. BTW - American Airlines and United Airlines have direct flights from Chicago to Shanghai and vice-versa.

But Shandong Province, south of Beijing, is still considered the ultimate birthplace for a fighting cricket. Folklore tells us that during an enemy invasion some 800 years ago, a Song dynasty emperor scattered his cricket collection at the foot of the sacred Mount Tai. The descendants of these crickets are said to be the world¡¯s best fighters. It¡¯s estimated that nearly half a million people travel to the county of Ningyang for crickets each year. Local farmers earn their main income just from plucking crickets from their fields and selling them to buyers from Singapore, Japan, and Hong Kong. http://www.jackboulware.com/writing/king-of-the-insects/ I have heard of it but never seen one. But I have eaten fried cicada. They sound alike to me .... not sure about their fighting ability though.

Why not just call the consulate and ask them? Chinese Passport Renewal According to "Chinese Passport Law", effective January 01, 2007, Chinese Passport extension will not be performed any longer. Instead, applicant must apply for passport renewal. According to Chinese Consulate policy, most applicants are required to apply in person at the Chinese Consulate. For details, please contact with Chinese Consulate directly (FYI: Tel: 212 244-9498 or 212 868-2078 ). VisaRite can only help applicants who is over 65 years of age. Consulate may change policy without notice. VisaRite will try it's best to provide accurate and update information as quickly as possible. Here in China you can get on a special email list with the US Embassy and they provide you notifications of special events in other cities outside Beijing and the consulates regarding ACS, passport renewals, etc. Perhaps the Chinese Embassy/Consulates have something similar.

If you really want to go just apply for a tourist or business multi-entry Chinese visa here in the States. Use your Z-visa to enter China the first time and then use your tourist/business visa to travel in and out of China while waiting for the Resident Permit. It can take up 1-2 months before you get the resident permit depending on how things go. The tourist/business visa is less than $200 total. Wouldn't work. You cannot have two valid visas in your passport at the same time. I had a valid F-Visa (I got it before I knew that my return assignment would require me to have a Z-Visa) and Z-Visa in my passport in Jan 2008. I entered China with no problems.

I thought the visa was valid for 6 months ... it seems that took almost a month away?

B) So true... Of course in this case he got fake Canadian not USA documentation. "His parents said the police discovered that he was carrying small amounts of opium and marijuana and he provided fake Canadian identification.' Maybe he will be able to keep his healthcare benefits at least.

This is very true....same experience here with a sport coat ... it was too little even for 6 yr old chinese boy when they finished with it

If you really want to go just apply for a tourist or business multi-entry Chinese visa here in the States. Use your Z-visa to enter China the first time and then use your tourist/business visa to travel in and out of China while waiting for the Resident Permit. It can take up 1-2 months before you get the resident permit depending on how things go. The tourist/business visa is less than $200 total.

http://themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/b...up-on-flu-fears Also low prices last year so less acres planted and speculation.....

I agree with you Carl but yet the US Government treats K1 visas with more favor than K3 or IR/CR-1 if you use timelines as the basis for "more favorable". I have never understood this.

Haha...yes..and to make it even easier..it has to be the same format as her offical birth certificate/translation which you must have submitted with the I-129F. Get the divorce ceritifcate from the same place. Actually, we didn't have to submit birth certificate for I-129F application (at least not to USCIS), only fill out forms, copy of her passport, and some other stuff, although I understand she may need birth certificate later at time of interview. Yes..your right..I forget that with the I-129F you did not need the birth certificate. However you can get the birth and police certificates from the same notary office in her hometown.

An interesting article from MSNBC with reaction from people in China to the visit. http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/200...16/2128867.aspx

This caught my attention: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday reiterated the Obama administration's commitment to seeking a legalization program in 2010 for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., which would increase USCIS' workload exponentially.