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Here is the story, Stepdaughter is IR2 and breezed through the Vermont and the electronic process in breakneck speed. Catching my La Po and I off guard, we are heading to China in late March and heading back to US mid April and would like to bring our daughter home. The dilemma is this, the interview has been scheduled for March 8/9, and we cannot change our plans to be there. We asked to Change the date to Late March and were told sorry March is full and we can only commit to a 1-2 month time frame for getting a new date, risking our chance to bring her to US.Unfortunately, the only family member available to help is my wife's mother and she is very unsophisticated and we do not believe she is capable, of navigating the interview process. I need to explore all options so here is what I am asking. In the past I have seen posts about hotel owners guiding CFL members through the process. Is there someone in exchange for staying at their hotel that would be willing to hold mother in laws hand from arrival at the airport until departure. In lieu of that, is there an actual service, for a fee of course, that would walk her through every step. She will have the paper work. I need someone to explain what is going to happen, take her to the medical, bring her to the consulate, etc.
Any suggestions are welcome
jk3
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Few questions about IR2 and optin, I am not clear about. The case is now at the NVC and I opted in for electronic processing.
Do I need to send the I864 and the DS230 cover sheet as attachments in the email?
IT looks like I do not need to send my birth certificate as proof of citizenship?
Do I need a scanned photo of her?
thanks
Jim
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I am not sure if it is clear from the responses, but you do not need the Barcode with the electronic process
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Happy New Year CFL
Filing for stepdaughter (I-130)- got through CSC in three months so feel fortunate
Sent the NVC optin email the end of last month
AOS fee is paid and listed as so on the NVC site, waiting for the IV fee to be invoiced
All the required documents are scanned and in a PDF format, I am ready to send them in as soon as i get my new optin case number
From the moment I get the new NVC case number for opting in, what are we finding as the average time till interview date.
thanks
J
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Only hand books for CO are English and Spanish, that does not mean that the test is only English or Spanish.how about denver? do they have a chinese one? he has his permit already he got that easy but driving with him and trying to explain everything is kinda hard....i would rather him read the whole manual...
if anyone could find one i would love you guys!! (not that i already dont love you guys!!!)
http://www.revenue.state.co.us/mv_dir/wrap...?incl=handbooks
NY handbooks are like that Eng/Spa but Yu was able to do the written test in Chinese.
You need to ask your DMV
Same as in Illinois, find the right person at your main DMV, not the local office. Somewhere in the state they will give you the test in Chinese. If they do in normal Illinois they should there??
Are these manuals in simplified chinese
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wow what a fast turnaround-bodes well for future applicants-
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Try this email form if you haven't already.
http://guangzhou.usembassy-china.org.cn/contactiv.html
They always get back to me within two days, usually a day. I emailed them last Thursday night and got a response Friday afternoon. This is oftentimes the best and only way to reach them.
I sent them an email from that link four days ago and nothing.
I think you are missing the point or I am not understanding ths situation. The key contact is the Post Office and you must move quickly, because they will return the passport to the Consulate-Good luck
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Yanzi POE is JFK. I cannot pass up the chance to spend a weekend in our greatest city. I am thinking of taking in a show, but yanzi english skills are not developed enough to understand a speaker, yards away, so I was thinking of a show a non-english speaker may enjoy. So far, I have two: Stomp and the Blue Man group. I have seen the blue man show. Anyone seen Stomp? Is it good? will a non englsh speaker enjoy the show? Any other suggestions?
Thanks
Jim
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The wife is now considering coming to US earlier than she originally thought. So my question is : does it matter what POE airport she goes to? Her ultimate destination will be Detroit Metro Airport in Romulus, but alas, this is not yet a POE airport. So we are trying to decide ... New York, New Jersey, Chicago ... does it matter? Or can we just look for the best deal price wise and deal with her POE anywhere? Thanks in advance.
Why is Detroit not a POE? I return to US from China, through there all the time, I think they have a non stop from Shanghai.
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Please stop the pissing match. Just ignore one another.
ME4Ying made a good point, which has been posted here before by mods, regarding wating to file AOS after the 2-yr anniversary so one can get the 10-yr GC direct.
This could be the reason the man does not want to file AOS right away and there is a communication issue between the two. You only got one side of the story second or even third hand.
Maybe but the one thing that bothers me is the social security card, you need that number to function in modern society
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WAY TO GO -
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Setup:
I hoped that we had some distinct advantages on interview day. Our second banquet planned months in advance fell on 09/09/09, one day before the interview. My family all came to China for the wedding, so we were quickly able to turn around pictures of Yanzi with the family
The ninth was quite the day, my ears are still ringing from all the fireworks, and we were even interviewed by local television, much to the delight of Yanzi friends who watched it in the following days. The wedding ceremony basically took all day and we caught a late flight to Guangzhou and stayed our wedding night at the Grand Palace which is a nice hotel, a stones through from the consulate.
The morning of the 10th was a blur as Yanzi's slept I finished a photo album with pictures from our wedding day delivered at the last minute by Yanzi's very efficient brother. Yanzi brought the following to the interview:
Photo Album
Financial Records including a updated I 864
chat log distilled from 5mb to 1mb but still over a thousand pages
emails between Yanzi and members of my family
hotel and airline reservations for upcoming family trip around china and from a trip Yanzi and I took to Bali since our application
Phone records
My Ace in the hole was MagCloud a web service from HP- I used it to create a magazine that I used as an EOR- It is really cool, and I think Candle members might want to give it a try as multimedia approach to make your case to the VO- I would use it in the beginning of the process then the end-like I did- I actually told Yanzi to produce it only if the VO asked for a EOR- so she kept it in her purse.
INTERVIEW DAY
The wedding day had wiped Yanzi out so I made sure she got plenty of sleep, so i checked and rechecked everything in the wee hours and let Yanzi sleep as late as possible. We arrived promptly at 7:30 AM and the line was long but moved quickly, by quarter of eight we had to separate and I watched her disappear behind the guard desk as butterflies churned in my stomach. In reading interview posts the earliest I read of someone coming out was 9:30 so I went back to the hotel for a quick nap. I returned at 9:30 and was heading to the coffee shop when I noticed the Chinese stoically standing and I figured if they can do it, so can I. Time passed excruciatingly slow, but it was a chance to see a great human drama. The thrill of whole families as a young student earned the chance to study in the America. The heartbreaking agony of a stroke victim denied a chance, I guessed, to visit relatives in the states. How did I know he did not get a visa, because he was ushered into one of the store fronts by the carnival barkers extolling the guarantees of their visa companies. The intensity of these leeches grew based on the how pained the expression on those who left the interview area. On cue,as I arrived, the first result for a western couple became apparent and it was positive followed closely by another positive result then time seemed to stand still. A steady stream of applicants passed but no Yanzi, a carnival barker remarked "you have been standing there a long time." 11AM arrived and my gut ached as I remembered as this being the time that the 'problem children" are interviewed.11:30 and I contemplated leaving to check out of the hotel while noticing two other Americans waiting they were in the same predicament as me. 11;40 and there she was hunched over by the weight of the binder holding the chat logs, as she desperately looked for a place to dump the binder. She found a table and I caught her eye. She smiled a tired smile and started to walk as I collected her detritus of stuff and followed her. She was playing coy, but I noticed the barkers pouncing and yanzi would utter a reply and I noticed a few leeches replying "gonchi gonchi" I recognized those words form the day before "Congratulations" She had done it.
Interview
The VO was a "beautiful women" late 30's or early 40's The general consensus is that the decision is 95% made before the interview. I am not disagreeing with that statement but given the direction of our interview, it was important in the final decision. My Yanzi was impressed with her professionalism. She was all business and attentive to Yanzi's answers.
First thing she did was wave away my chat log ( I am sure Yanzi was silently mop slapping me)
VO examined my passport asked
How did you meet? Friend
No follow up question
how did you get to know each other- Phone
asked for records
When did he first visit you?
How many times did he visit you?
Then she asked for photo album
She looked at each page of the album starting with my first visit
VO asked " Do you love your husband"
Then she asked "why do you love your husband"
She kept looking at the photos
VO asked "do you know his family"
Yanzi answered " We send each other emails- Would you like to see"
VO said yes and examined the emails
She kept looking at photo album
"Is your husband married?"
"Does he have Children?"
She got to the section of the wedding and asked
"How did my family and hers get along"
Interview Over
Pink slip
Yanzi asked her if she needed the financial records?
VO said no she already had them
Lastly I just just get back from China so I apologize for the delayed posting. Most important, Thank you! Thank you! to the community of this board, it is an invaluable resource for preparing for the interview, and most importantly will be of more importance as I prepare for the arduous task of adjusting Yanzi to American life.
{edit} Spelling in Topic description.
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Just got back from the mainland, and had a great trip. The wedding on the 9th went great and then the very next day we had the interview and pink it is,more details to follow, but this board is a godsend and thank you to everyone
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great news congratulations
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Terrific news congratulations
First of all¡ We¡¯re PINK!!!!!
Incidentally, I had read that you weren¡¯t allowed to bring any electronics into the consulate building. While this is true regarding access to the 5th floor, I didn¡¯t see any restrictions and saw no metal detectors between the entrance and the 4th floor coffee shop. Had I known, my laptop or iPod would have greatly helped to pass the time.
Electronics are allowed, as they are in any other building
The consulate is on the fifth floor only, with a small admissions area on the 4th. They have no control over the rest of the building - it is a public building with free access to all areas, although they do have guards to keep an eye on things.
I'm sure that's one of the reasons for the new complex they are breaking ground for.
Congratulations
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HopeLives - You started NVC processing on 7 APR 2009.
If your financials for the I-864 have significantly changed, OR if you didn't send TY 2008 tax info for the I-864, then, by all means get an updated I-864 to your woman. Send it TO HER. She'll have a chance to present it on Interview Day.
Good Luck !
they have TY 2008 and my I864 pretty much identical, really wanted to update that I visited one more time this year and the chat logs,but i will save the money and buy a really nice mop
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You send these things to your spouse to bring to the interview, there is no way to add anything to your file before the interview, if you send anything to the consulate without their request, more than likely they will simply discard them as per their form OF-169.
http://guangzhou.usembassy-china.org.cn/up..._169-May.09.pdfDo NOT send the actual documents to the Consular office, as we will have to destroy them.there goes that idea- saves me 60 bucks thanks Dan
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Interview is soon, thinking of via Fed Ex or UPS updating my file with a new I-864, some paystubs and pictures from my third trip, and maybe some chat sessions. My reasoning is that the prevailing mood on the board is that during the interview session many of our updated documents never see the light of day. Given the volume of cases in Guz maybe we should try to get our updates in the file now, when the VO is sitting at his/her desk doing a review. Of course the flaw in that theory is I do not know what is the timeframe for when he actually reviews the file.
In reading the archives I have seen some attempts at updating the file prior to the interview. What do you think of this idea? Will it get to my file? Has anyone else tried it and your SO sees the updated documents interview day or the VO mentions the new documents? What documents would you send? I am thinking I would send to GUZ care of the Immigrant Visa section with our GUZ number prominently displayed
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I stupidly use International Priority mail flat rate document envelope and I am at 2 weeks on Tuesday of this week and beginning to panic
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Because petitioner's employment situation can change, and the interviewing officer may ask to see another one.Help me out here
why the original I-864
They have that already when you filed with NVC
Are you a CR1
Terrific Info
Then i will do another one
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Some have the packet sent to a third party in Guangzhou or Guangdong province, and then the third party sends it to you.From what I've read here from the boots on the ground fellas
If it's going to the POST OFFICE for pickup, then NO.
If it's going to any other address, then YES. YMMV, though, GREATLY.
Reading the board and the archives, the visa cannot be mailed outside Guangdong province. For other provinces, Is staying in Guangzhou the only option?
Some have Used Mr Yang at the TianYu Gardens to do this.
His contact info is here: http://candleforlove.com/forums/index.php?...st&p=416175
As usual you are the man- Great Idea thanks- I hope we get the chance to use Mr Yang
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Financial Stuff
1) Original, Signed I-864 Affidavit of Support
2) 2008 tax returns, W2's + Official transcripts (ordered directly from IRS)
3) Official 2006 IRS tax transcripts (ordered directly from IRS)
4) Official 2007 IRS tax transcripts (ordered directly from IRS)
5) pay stubs: 2008-present
6) Letter of Employment Verification from current employer (more recent than when AOS was submitted)
7) Updated Letter of deposit verification from primary account (more recent than when AOS was submitted)
8) Bank statement and ATM records for account for the debit card he uses for emergencies, or visa related expenses (ie. medical exam, whitebooks)
Relationship Stuff
9) Air tickets copies
10) Receipts of letters sent w/ address
11) Copy of Passport with Chinese visa and Entry/Exit stamps
12) Pictures of us during trips
13) Phone records
14) Various proof of my own Chinese proficiency
Beneficiary Part (DCF)
1) Interview Appointment Letter
2) Form DS-230 Part II (well, copies, see #10)
3) Passport & 2 copies of passport
4) Passport photos
5) Medical Exam Report with X-ray (umm...in the works)
6) Marriage Certificate notarized
7) Birth Certificates notarized
8) Police Certificate notarized from China
9) Photos covering 3 years
10) Copies of everything previously submitted, including I-130 evidence, AOS, whitebook copies, forms, etc.
Help me out here
why the original I-864
They have that already when you filed with NVC
Are you a CR1
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terrific news
Guidance
in Consulate Process: P-3 ~ Interview
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This is why the board is such a wonderful resource. The veterens have spoken and we will do what it takes for one of us to be there
Thanks Randy and Tsap