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Read my post again. The visa category has nothing to do with vaccination requirements.

Her medical exam is good for one year. It is included in the "Mysterious Brown Envelope" that is kept at the POE and forwarded to her local BCIS office. When she does her AOS, she will need to submit a "Supplemental Form to I-693" which is filled out by a Civil Surgeon that she MUST visit in person. This form documents all the vaccinations that she got. To get a list of such surgeons in her area, go the to the BCIS website, or type "Civil Surgeon" on Google.com. The form is filled out and signed by the surgeon after he/she inspects her "International Certificate of Vaccination", which is a yellow document the size of a passport, and which she should have been given a copy of after her medical exam. The surgeon then seals the form in an envelope, which MUST remain sealed and submitted with the I-485. You will receive a photocopy. My wife's supplement cost $25. Remember that tetanus-diptheria (TD) and varicella (chicken pox) shots are two-staged shots, approx 6 weeks apart. If your wife did not get her second series of shots, this might pose a problem with the surgeon signing off on the supplement. Contact the surgeon by phone before making an appointment if you need to clarification on this point.

The reference to followup shots is for TD (tetanus-diptheria) and varicella (chicken pox) which are taken approx 6 weeks apart. If your wife didn't get the followup shots, she needs to take them within the prescribed timeframe, or risk starting all over again. Hepatitis B is not a required shot.

What China Rose posted is correct. My wife is a K-3 and the medical forms arrived in Packet 3. One thing you have to consider is that if you went ahead and got the exam done before Packet 4 arrives, the interview occurs several months later, you arrive in the states several months after the interview, then you get married and apply for AOS near the 3-month deadline for the K-1 stay, you might end up in a situation where the 1-year validity of the exam has expired for AOS purposes, forcing you to take a second exam. Not very likely, but still, it is better to get the exam scheduled after the interview date is known, which should be at least two weeks after Packet 4 is received. Don't forget that certain shots require a follow up shot (such as hepatitis), which must be documented and submitted with I-485 documents.

If you look at page 2, the post entitled "Moved: Status change or wait for GC in US after getting K (CR1 and K3)" is listed, but under "Replies" and "Views", only "---" appears. I made a post this afternoon, but the last poster is still listed as "Jerry", back on April 16. Can anyone explain what this is all about? I went to the Forums page and the home page, but could not locate any listing for "CR1 and K3".

Receiving the K-3 Visa does not cancel the I-130 process. My wife arrived in the US in January 2003, and she received her I-130 2nd NOA last month. Last week, I received an NSC letter saying to submit money for processing the Affidavit of Support. I wrote back, saying that my wife is already processing her I-485 thru the SF BCIS office, and that she will not pursue direct Consular Filing in GZ bu instead apply for Adjustment of Status, so paying for the AOS is not necessary.

If you are a member of either AAC (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Asian_American_Couples/ ) or a member of CUC (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/China-USA-Couples/ ) you can join K-3 Filers (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K3_Filers/), which is specifically for K-3 Visas. If not, first join one of the two groups, then apply for the K-3 Filers group. You won't find a website that has more detailed info on the entire K-3 process than there. It is not an active group because it has less than a hundred members, but the archives are worth their weight in gold. Two other sources of K-3 info are: http://www.txdirect.net/users/mike38/k1faq...aq.htm#step%209 http://k1.exit.com/

The interview is conducted in English by Americans, most (if not all) who are fluent in Mandarin. It can be as short as 5 minutes, and much longer if the VO detects something is amiss during the interview. My wife's interview lasted less than 10 minutes. The VO asked to see some of the required paperwork (including our marriage certificate and her divorce certificate, but oddly enough, he did not ask for the Affidavit of Support documents), and our photos. My wife's English is adequate, but if your fiance's English is very poor, expect more questioning. Back that up with photocopies of telephone bills and e-mails, and letters with postmarked envelopes (both from you to her, and from her to you). Of course, photos of you together (prints from a film camera with the date imprinted is desireable) are a must. Digital camera photos might be a problem since such images can be manipulated.

My Onesuite account started in early December at 13.9 cents a minute, and dropped steadily to 4.9 cents a minute as of today. Their customer service is excellent, reliability unexcelled, connections are crystal clear, and their calling history cannot be beat. I've used Cybercalling and China Phone Cards, but neither has measured up to Onesuite.

Call back Monday, and this time, insist on being transferred to Greg. No one else at DOS is willing to go the extra step for us.

Regarding contacting any Consular Officer (including Clayton Hays): The only thing I ask is that you e-mail a CO after one of two things happen: You have waited at least two months from the interview, and you have not received notification to pick up visa, or You have security clearance, but the EMS letter has not been issued after two weeks. This would hopefully prevent the COs from being overwhelmed with inquiries. Good luck!

I can also attest to the accuracy of that recording, as I heard it while trying to contact Clayton Hays. I don't have a warm and fuzzy feeling about Adams. Maybe it's the sound of his voice. Maybe it's because he didn't return my e-mail for four business days. He just doesn't strike me as being too concerned about those of us who have waited more than four months to receive a visa. Good luck in contacting Clayton Hays (haysc@state.gov). Let's see how long it takes for PJ to censor my and Angry Texan's info!

If contact info is not available to others on this board, you are in effect telling us to sit on our butts and wait it out. Is that the message you want to convey to members of this website? Act meek, and you may inherit the earth, but you'll likely be one of the last to receive a visa. If standing in line while others cut in front of you doesn't make your blood boil, then perhaps that is why you have no empathy for those who have been waiting since as late as July 30 for a visa. Had I not been proactive in my wife's case, she would most surely still be waiting and getting more depressed by the day. Contacting the right CO (Clayton Hays, who I luckily got when calling Richard Adams phone number, since Mr. Adams was on vacation and I got his secretary and not the answering machine), revealed that my wife's case had slipped by the wayside, and he was willing to send me an e-mail authorizing my wife to pick up her visa the next day without the EMS letter. I have posted all the contact info on the CUC website, and if others don't want to become a member of that website, they can e-mail me for the listing. I did this after waiting for Richard Adams to respond to my e-mail that I sent last Sunday, asking him if he considered his phone number "priveledged info" as you implied. When he did not respond in three days, I posted his phone number and e-mail address at CUC. You appear to be acting in a vacuum, since at least one other Moderator of this board does not agree with you.

You must have missed my earlier post, where such information was censored by Moderator PJ. He never replied to my request to justify removing the phone number and fax of Richard Adams from my message, but since it is still to your benefit to join either or both groups, I suggest that you do just that to get the information and the other benefits of membership, instead of me just reposting it. However, if enough members want it, and at the risk of ruffling feathers, I will post all such data that is available at CUC, here

Jim, Thanks for responding to the question. My server was down most of the morning. Members of this website, if not already, should consider being a member of CUC and/or AAC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Asian_American_Couples/ since either website allows access to members and links that provide valuable resources and insight regarding the entire visa process and adjustment to life in America as well. If you are going through, or contemplating using, the K-3 process, also consider joining: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K3_Filers/ However, you must first be a member of either CUC or AAC before you will be considered to join this group.