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I took my wife and daughter thru US Citizen line at Newark, no problem.

Congrats to you and your SO... This is the fastest CR1 that I have seen.

Actually I know of 3 airlines that leaves Beijing to the USA. United fly to Chicago, Continental to Newark, and Air China to JFK-NY. POE in Newark was like a walk thru, that's during weekdays.

On my wife's DS-156, I had her write as I will pay for her plane ticket.

Thank you all.

POE at Newark is about 30 minutes from line to finish.

My SO passed her interview on Feb 22. She is here in USA now. She said the interview lasted about 2 minutes, although she was waiting for 5 hours. I could not believe how fast POE was at Newark last evening.

I will be in HK and Shenzhen from Feb. 8th.-23rd. We're getting married the 14th. Mat 186379[/snapback] Getting married, eh? good....it should not take you too long, less than 1/2 the day, maybe 1 hour to do the marriage booklet, as long as your single certificate is translated to chinese. Oh yeah, for your petition I would suggest you to get 4 copies of the marriage certificate in both chinese and english you will need it.

You have a china mobile number?.....I want to get one and a china mobile phone but the wife says no no no.......no spend, need save...hehehe

Is anyone going to GZ to be with their SO for interview during the week of Feb 21, 2006?

Well, I try to tell her that she can get sole custody with testify from her mom and brother. I did read the birth certificate that was written from the hospital after birth.... Her name and the deadbeat father, both of there names are on the birth certificate.

185482[/snapback] OK then. Here's how I prepared. As I stated, I could not get my document notatized. So I wrote out a statement that my SO is not and has never been married and that the biological father has not been part of the child's upbringing etc. Then in case GZ asked for it I would have them notarize it. It may have worked, maybe not. But I had no choice. Those others of you who's SO was married and are replying about divorce decree's, no offence, you are confusing the issue. 185487[/snapback] This is about SINGLE MOTHER not related to divorce mother. hlguan..thanks

yes, that is what it sounds like..

My wife was not married to him, she was a single mom. Dean, thank you for your answer too.

This is really helpful, hlguan. The father's name IS on the birth certificate and also on the hospital birth medical certificate. Thanks for your informations.

my step-daughter is only 3 years old. My wife was never married to him or anyone before me. She said that the court can not give her sole custody. Stilll in court for the Fu Yuen Guang, something like "permission to be a caretaker" even though she IS the mother. Well, we can't get the consent from the biological father that is why we go to court 3 months ago. Anyway, to answer your confusion...in my step-daughter's IDD card before the change, my wife's name was not on the card because my wife was not marry. So in this case my wife said that my step-daughter belongs to the government and she is only the caretaker. We have to pay the government 40k rmbs to change the daughter's new IDD card to have my wife's name on it. No other paper saying the father's right is terminated.

I hope someone here have an answer for me and my wife. My wife's interview is coming soon and this is the only paper that we still don't have cause the deabeat father does not want to sign. For those people who marry a single mother or have a fiance who is a single mother, do you need to have the deabeat father to sign a declaration for the child to immigrate to the USA? Since the deadbeat father has not provide any kind of support for living and caring expense and the child was listed as belong to the government before I married my wife, do you think it is necessary to have the child be declare?. My wife don't think she can get the court to give her sole custody. Help is needed, thanks.

Are you K3 or CR1? I guess it does not matter which one... The priority date at NVC site don't make sense to me neither. If your case is on its way to GZ, say K3 for example, you could be expecting P3 in about 3 months. For CR1, about 3 months to know something from DOS if the name/security check go smoothly. other than what I had experience from my cases, I can not help you much.

Usually 1 week to get the RFE after being notified.

Thanks, that's very encouraging!! I will go prepared for sure. If she gets the P4 while I'm there, the interview will still likely be a little after I return I'm suspecting, since the interview is usually about a month after the P4. No problem.....from recieve of P4 to interview for my wife is almost 8 weeks.

Congrats on recieving of the P3..... My wife recieved the P4 for K3 in 8 weeks so it is very likely that you will get the P4 while you are in Nanning. CK

mmmm....my apology for not making it clear in the other post. anyway, my wife say that we should know the answer at the end of Jan about outcome from the court. Yes, as of now I do plan to go for the K3 interview and get them both here. Yeah, I know what you mean. When my told me about what that I was furious. Anyway, wish the outcome of the court is on my side.

nope, there wasn't a previous marriage/divorce involved and the court did not issue sole custody to my wife.

Thanks frank1538 andn thanks for the other replied.... I do know what you mean about getting them both here. I would rather have this than wait another 8 to 9 months. The only reason that I want to have the CR1 for the K3 interview date is that my wife and I are still waiting for the results for my step-daughter from the court in Jan 25. We are not sure if our lawyer can have the court make the deadbeat father sign the permission letter for my step-daughter to leave china.

That is a very good news....