Eric&Yuhui

It never ceases to amaze me... How things have evolved to make our life somewhat easier..the information highway that is .. Yesterday at lunch, I went to the Sydney Opera website, and book ourselves 2 tickets for the February 4 performance of Verdi's opera masterpiece La Traviata at the Sydney's opera house.. Get to pick the seats numbers too,, like on an aircraft seating chart.. This is so cool.... Ain't cheap though.. about USD 85 a piece, but worth it.. For the opera itself, and where it's being performed at :-).... A night to remember... A short one though.. We fly to Tasmania at O' dark hundred the following morning... Wooohoo !! Yuhui accepted the date Australia, hold the sunshine... we're coming !!! Tomorrow, we have 7 family members ( my sister is a rabbit with 4 kids LOL ) coming out from France for the Holidays...Where the hell am I going to fit all those nice folks here ? I know ! They can camp on the beach ! I kinda wish we could squeeze in the Jilin province family as well for a few days :-) Yuhui's already ruled... bossed around and decided.... The master plan is on.. God help us all till Jan 3..

Bet you're itching to jump in, aren't ya ?

Tony. Nope. Not Puerto Rico. It was invaded and annexed by Bermuda last week Keep up with the news, will ya ?

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services HQADN 70/23.12 425 I Street NW Washington, DC 20536 December 2, 2003 MEMORANDUM FOR ALL INTERIM REGIONAL DIRECTORS ALL INTERIM SERVICE CENTER DIRECTORS ALL INTERIM DISTRICT DIRECTORS, BCIS FROM: William R. Yates /s/ Acting Associate Director for Operations Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services SUBJECT: Extension of Status for Conditional Residents with Pending Forms I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence Background The Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986 (IMFA), Pub. L. 99-639 (November 10, 1986), were enacted to combat fraud perpetrated by aliens who marry only to obtain immigration benefits. The IMFA amended the Immigration and Nationality Act by adding a new section 216, which imposes an initial 2-year period of conditional residency on a person who acquired permanent resident status based on a recent marriage. Section 216 also provides a comprehensive procedure by which a conditional resident may have these conditions removed by filing a Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence. Currently, a conditional resident who files a Form I-751 receives a Form I-797, Notice of Action, extending his or her status as a conditional resident for a 1-year period. This Form I-797 also advises the conditional resident that travel and employment are authorized for that 1-year period. Thus, conditional residents with expired Forms I-551, Permanent Resident Cards, may present their expired Form I-551 and their Form I-797 as evidence of their status in the United States. There is no guidance concerning what documentation may be given to a conditional resident who has received this 1-year extension, but whose Form I-751 has not yet been adjudicated. This memorandum provides that guidance. Memorandum for Regional Directors, et al. Page 2 Subject: Extension of Status for Conditional Residents with Pending Forms I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence Documenting a Conditional Resident’s Status According to the regulations at 8 CFR 216.4(a)(1), “Upon receipt of a properly filed Form I-751, the alien’s conditional permanent resident status shall be extended automatically, if necessary, until such time as the director has adjudicated the petition.” Thus, any conditional resident who has filed a Form I-751 remains a conditional resident until a decision is made on his or her Form I-751. Such conditional resident is eligible to receive evidence of his or her conditional resident status. If a conditional resident whose I-551 has expired and whose I-797 has “expired” or is about to “expire” requests documentation of his or her status for travel or employment purposes, the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS) officer who is processing this request should first check MFAS. If the Form I-751 is still pending, the BCIS officer should collect the expired Form I-551 and issue either: • A temporary I-551 stamp with a 12-month expiration date in the conditional resident’s unexpired, foreign passport (if the expiration date of the passport is one year or more); or • If the conditional resident is not in possession of an unexpired foreign passport, a Form I-94 (arrival portion) containing a temporary I-551 stamp with a 12-month expiration date and a photograph of the conditional resident.

Cute one...

Yuhui got her Australian visa I was surprised they gave her one year multiple entry 90 days stay... Same as mine ( on a ETA ) Now we can play in February..

10 / It's still being refurbished in Bangladesh as we speak 9/ Pilot keeps stopping along SFO runways to ask for directions to the gate 8/ There's a snow storm at Chek Lap Kok. Damn. 7/ Just for fun, everybody gets a boarding pass marked "24D" 6/ Co-pilot still arguing about handling the big stick on take-off 5/ They ran out of pretzels ! Caterer's contract cancelled 4/ Too hard to learn Chinese in 2 hrs for UA flight attendants.. 3/ Santa's on it's way from San Jose ! Sled broke down on freeway.. 2/ Published departure time ?? LOL .. Didn't tell you at the travel agency, huh? Get real. 1/ We want to get into Hong-Kong at 4 am when it's less crowded....

that's the day we arrive in HK... Dazzled and tired..Poor Yuhui connects right to Changchun.. I'm heading off to Korea

Right, but the United flights are brutal. To me they do not compare Cathay Pacific. Just my thoughts. I flew both. Curious. What's so different? United is cutting costs by shutting off one outboard engine half way....then all remaining 3 for a glide all together all the way from Japan on.. Cathay waits till reaching China coast before gliding down.. Seriously, the difference might be / are -Crew service -Seats ( CX flies A340 from SF0 usually , UA the B747.. Airbus seats are wider in coach and just more cozzy.. In business they both are bearable )

congrats, my man.

No, you do not. Except for the tax returns.

Port Of Entry.... i.e U.S airport/seaport when one clears U.S immigration

I must have missed something..... He really worries me now

1/ If you claim your wife, then ALL WORLWIDE income must be reported 2/ Yep. If you were married before Dec 31, then you were considered fiscally married all year.. same goes for divorce by the way. 3/ I have no clue on this one

Mark Chinese have been better in recent years to issue passport for "private" travel. Yet, you don't exactly get one by walking to the office in charge. Here is what to do: Send her on a vacation ! I'm not kidding. I sent Yuhui to Thailand for a week with a TOUR group. First trip out of the country ever. She was issued a passport just like that. Strangely enough, the tour guides hang on to everybody's passport while out of China.. but give them back while returning to China. You can head right back out by yourself this time , providing you get a visa from the destination country of course.. The passport is absolutely " normal " and standard issue ( no weird mention on it, like " can only travel to Japan between April 3 and 4,,, etc... ) , and then she can travel by herself. Et voila :-) Tour guys take care of visa as well. By the way, a week in Thailand with air and hotel cost us like USD 300 or so. You get a passport and fun :-) Even best is to send her to a country which is ADS listed by China ( Approved Destination Status ).. lots of asian countries are.. The only western countries that are are South Africa and Australia. This scheme was developped to bolster tourism between said countries and China. Chinese authorities designated a number of travel agents in China to establish links with the country travel agents to arrange group travel from China. Yuhui got her passport without trips to PSB, stamps, permits, and all that crap. Minimum paperwork. She didn't go the ADS route though.. just a plain tour group. And no bribes whatsoever Good luck

Yes and No. They are not for average Joe Blow,.. But they are if you happened to land on the wish list of INTERPOL

Cliff Yuhui got a 3 year multiple entry visa to Europe. No problem. Then again, the fact that I am ALSO a E.U national probably helped :-) I don't think you should have a problem She applied last week for a visa to Australia, where we go in January. I think we should be OK

that's correct.

I might just do that. Thanks.. Snow in AL/TN ?? Gulp !!!

You can delete the Rambla-thon. I don't mind at all. No, I really don't mind. I was serious about # 10 to 1 though. Looks to me and Y like those topics came on and on all the time.. And they are still in the news. Topics like the BH gang, and other memorable things are great, but they are in the past now. I don't think an FAQ section should include them. Let's stick to what's still current.

I don't blame you. I decided to cool off as there isn't a damn thing I can do about it. Right now, she can stay here, she can travel out, she can work... The rest is academic and mere paper-shuffling. Move back to Miami ! The wait is only 12 months ! Oct 2002 processing date for I-485.. Woooohoo !! I'm all tingly already.... Just kidding

yeah, but you were cranky too !

Do they have a fushia slip too ?? Good grief ! All color coded but can't get their act together

She meant that her husband want a divorce now. So sad.

CONGRATS !!!!