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So I am going to call next week to find out if our case is at Guangzhou and if they have mailed out P3 yet. If they have, according to their website, we can go ahead and send in OF-169, DS-230 part 1, and a copy of the bio part of her passport. Anything else we need to send in with P3? We are wanting to send this in as soon as we know GUZ has mailed P3. Don't want to wait for P3 to arrive to her before we send the forms in. Thanks all

After NVC, you can call DOS Visa services for Guangzhou Status. http://travel.state.gov/visa/about/how/how_1463.html Depending on what way it was sent to Guangzhou it can be there within a week, or if they sent it by courier it can take a while. After that and it can take a bit for the consulate to send out the P3 packet. It seems over the past couple years NVC has been using an electronic method to transmit cases to consulate, to avoid the 3 month customs delays that happen when using a courier to ship cases over. In our case 5 years ago it went by courier, and I simply waited out the 3 months, then contacted DOS visa services, I then knew P3 was mailed before my wife received, she then mailed back the OF-169 and DS-230 part 1 before receiving the actual P3 in the mail.

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Dear CFL Members, The National Visa Center (NVC) has started a new pilot program of electronically processing visa petitions. Under this program all documents related to your case will be sent to Guangzhou electronically, rather than by mail. This should greatly improve the speed and efficiency of visa processing by avoiding delays due to postal service delivery. The electronic processing option is available only for the U.S. Consulate Guangzhou, China and will initially be available only to immediate relatives of U.S. citizens over the age of 21 years (visa categories IR-1, IR-2, CR-1, CR-2, and IR-5). If you have heard from the NVC and have chosen to participate in electronic processing you should not mail any physical paper documents to NVC. Doing so will result in a delay in the processing of your case. NVC will send instructions to all e-mail addresses you provided. Please follow all instructions from NVC for submitting documents electronically and bring the original documents to the interview with you. If your case is being processed through the electronic pilot project, your case number should begin with GZO. If your case is not being processed electronically, your case number should begin with GUZ. For further information regarding this program, please e-mail the NVC at NVCInquiry@state.gov or call the NVC at (603) 334-0700. Customer Service Representatives are available Monday through Friday from 7:30am ¨C midnight EST. You must have a touchtone phone to use this service. Please Note: The NVC electronic processing project for K visa (fianc¨¦e/spouse non-immigrant visa), has different procedures. For these cases, although the petitions are loaded electronically, the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou still contacts visa beneficiaries to provide more documents prior to interview scheduling. If you are a K visa applicant and you have opted in for electronic processing, you will still have to wait for paper Instructions via mail from the Consulate. Thank you, U.S. Consulate Guangzhou, China

http://guangzhou.usembassy-china.org.cn/changes-to-immigrant-visa-processing.html

In our P4, we received an outdated form. Be sure to compare what they send you with what is available on their website. If the revisions on the hard copy sent are later than the revisions on their website, discard what was sent and download the most recent form. http://guangzhou.usembassy-china.org.cn/fo...and_packets.htm http://guangzhou.usembassy-china.org.cn/ch...tion_sites.html

Dear CFL, We've noticed that a lot of petitioners have recently been coming in to Petitioner Hour at the Consulate mostly so that officers will make a note in their case that they appeared. In the event that people are doing this in the hope that it will increase the chances that their case will be approved--let's be clear that it really makes no difference at all if petitioners come to Petitioner Hour. If you want to prove that you returned to China for your fiance(e)/spouse's interview, just ask them to take your passport or a notarized photocopy of the entire passport to the interview with them. Furthermore, it might be worth keeping in mind that the time consular officers spend at Petitioner Hour is time that is not spent processing cases. The intention of Petitioner Hour is to provide a forum where petitioners can make inquiries about the status of their cases or clear up confusion about the visa process. So, if you go to Petitioner Hour without a real question, you are really just slowing the process down for everyone else. Please keep this in mind when you decide whether to attend. Sincerely, USCONGUZ