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Hi Steve, My wife wanted one and said she preferred the JiuYang machine, which we were able to buy on the net. At the SoyaJoy site, which has a lot of info about soy milk and drinks, there top of the line machine is actually the JiuYang machine with the SoyaJoy name on it (they confirmed to me in an email that it is the JiuYang machine. We have had good experience with it. Makes good milk quickly and most important to Weiwei, it's easy to clean. It also has settings for making all soy milk or making rice or multi grain drinks, which have also been very good. Weiwei says tell her it make every kind of pea, not just yellow pea and any JiuYang machine is good. Today we bought some gypsum at the Chinese Market and we're going to give a try to making a batch of Tofu. Good Luck. Joe

I hope it's a quick overcome and you guys are together (here) soon. Enjoy the rest of your trip!

Congratulations. I didn't attend ACH because there was none the week of our interview. Going to ACS with an evolution letter to notarize seemed to work just as well, at least for us. Making an appt online gets you to the window sooner but you can't make an appt until a few weeks before the date you want. If you go to the consulate website and look for ACS and "make an appt" it will show you which days they are scheduling currently. Just keep checking back until your day opens and book it. Good luck.

Sorry to hear your wife is ailing. I hope she feels better very soon.

Good luck. I hope this one has a happier ending.

Congratulations. Hope you'll be together again very soon!

It seems very complicated and all the things mentioned seem to come into play but in our life it seems to be a pretty simple calculation of to whom we can admit "weakness" without causing them to worry or tempting them to take advantage of us. Good luck with your surgery. I hope it goes smoothly and your recovery is quick. Try searching "peptic ulcer surgery" to get info related to what you're having done. Sleep well.

If you could supply a timeline it would greatly increase our ability to help. What package did you send 10/31? When did you receive P2? Etc.

Hey Wendy!! You made it!! Hooray! So I guess you had time to pick up the visa Saturday and make the flight. That is great! I hope you made the same flight as Dylan and didn't get delayed. I hope you'll tell us more about it when you get some sleep. I hope your POE experience was smooth. Weiwei is very happy that you're home also. Good luck to you and Dylan and welcome to the USA!! Joe

I'd go to that china post in the AM, stop and say a prayer at the giant elvis in front of the nearby KTV and then bop in and pick it up. If it isn't there, you probably have to look at the total cost of changing your flights vs wherever Wendy will need to stay, her expenses if she's no longer working, the emotional cost of leaving alone and decide if it's worth trying to change your flight.

I took the same gamble and bought both with a reasonable change fee for my return and for hers as well with up to a year to use her ticket. Yes, her one-way was almost as much as my RT ticket. Since we got pink I was happy with the outcome. Not sure how I would have viewed the decision if we'd have had a different outcome.

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations Hope you have a smooth transition to the states.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

Many of us who interviewed right before Chinese New Year sweated this out recently. In our case we interviewed on Wednesday the 21st with the impending prolonged closure for the holiday coming on the 23rd. We did, in fact, get our visa the 23rd. When we went to bed on the 22nd around 11, EMS still showed no activity on our number but when we awoke on the 23rd it listed it as delivered at 7:30 the previous night. So if you go to bed on day 2 with nothing showing on EMS it may still show up in the AM. Good luck.

My wife had work as a make-up artist in several closed businesses and a few businesses of her own where she couldn't remember the exact address and when friends went to check the buildings were gone. We just put what she remembered (streets without numbers). Also, one of her businesses may not have been exactly registered correctly with the Chinese govt, we put it anyway. The only thing she had as any proof of her work was a portfolio that contained many Chinese magazines where she is listed as the make-up artist, which she brought to the interview but didn't need. We never got any questions about her work and apparently didn't raise any red flags.

If you are near Beijing I can give you a referral to my sister-in law's studio. Sister and brother did ours, so I got the family rate. Not sure how much they actually charge. If you want to see an example of the action search for "Sexy Beijing" episodes on youtube (it's a Hong Kong TV show about the mainland from the perspective of a Jewish American girl living in Beijing.The opening parody of the "Sex in the City" opening is quite funny.) There is an episode about people getting wedding photos that shows some of the outdoor shooting. Don't be attached to having pictures of you and your lady. She will want pictures that portray you as glamorous movie stars rather than yourself. It won't be important to her that you are recognizable. My wife did this business as well and she dyed my hair to something she could work with more easily in photoshop. There are also wedding photo studios in America's Chinatowns, if she wishes to do more once she is here.

Silly woman... Yes, why is she making you fly to Newark?! Make it Tampa/St. Pete to Harbin!

Yes/no so you are saying non stop is not non stop? I have no experience from Houston, only Newark to Beijing. If Continental says non-stop to Shanghai then you think it is 2 stops? I have never seen a flight that lists as non stop, but does indeed have two stops. Have you? This is your (actual) non-stop from Newark to Beijing You mean an actual (non-non stop) flight from Houston, not Newark. My flight from Newark is non stop. I did not fly thru Houston. I suppose you could always fly to Houston first and then take the PHONY "non-stop" from Houston to Beijing Interesting concept. Any previous use of the aircraft means that if I get on at Newark and fly to Beijing without stopping, I've stopped, even though I haven't stopped. So you are saying the only non-phony non-stop flight would be the first leg of the plane's maiden voyage, which is probably a flight from Boeing with no one aboard. All other voyages without stops are not non-stop because the plane flew somewhere else before...and stopped. I've never seen that restrictive a definition of non-stop but as i said it's an interesting way to think about it. My simple mind thought that since I got on at Newark and didn't stop until Beijing, I had taken a non-stop flight but you're right, I'm sure that plane flew many places before and stopped. I've always assumed it meant whether the passengers had to stop and not whether the plane had ever stopped before.

Great news tsap! It is really exciting to hear that you'll be together soon. Take care of your health and your family and enjoy your trip. You and the lil' rabbit try to keep the clothing on at the airport so they don't turn you right back around and send you home!

I think you left out a word David. You looked into buddhism but you prefer buddhism (zen). Was it some other particular form you looked into or are you contrasting all other forms to zen?

Congratulations!

congratulations!!!

Unfortunately, she turned the mic off every time they spoke. She forgot to turn it back on once to talk to Weiwei but always had it off when speaking to the other woman. From their actions Weiwei felt that she was showing her what to look for in my passport and what to look for on our hotel bills, airfare bills. She tried to hear other conversation but was able to hear only muffled voices and couldn't make it out.

Hey everyone, we are back in Yingkou celebrating the New Year. Do the fireworks ever stop? I wanted to hold off to have the visa in our hands. It was ready on Friday the 23rd, the second day after the approval. I mentioned elsewhere how I went to ACS and had a productive meeting there. Others may want to consider taking an evolution letter to ACS to be notarized. The officer looked at the letter, asked me some questions and entered info into her file as I spoke. Weiwei felt very good about that and it gave her more confidence going in. She went in feeling pretty good and I went to the coffee shop to wait with a nice fellow who unfortunately received blue, but who I was able to recommend the info at candle. After she went in he and I chatted nervously and about 8:45 AM Weiwei came out looking sad and nervous. I swallowed hard but knew it was kind of early. She couldn't find her passport copy in our system of folders and they sent her out to copy it. After she did that she hurried back in and we waited some more. At 9:50 she emerged, skipping with her pink paper in hand. I liked that better. Since no papers are processed at the medical now, she had to go through and produce all the papers at the first stop. After they took what they wanted, Weiwei insisted they take my I-134 and tax returns. She also made them take take my employment letter and copy of my last paystub from 2008. They didn't want to, but she made them take them. We had never discussed doing that but apparently some things she read on 001 made her want to do that. She proceeded through the initial phases, fingerprinting, oath, no problems. A few people went before her and seemed to be predominantly blue but she tried to keep her thoughts away from what was happening mostly. Maybe her mind was far enough away from it that she missed her number/name being called several times then finally heard it and ran to the window with a hearty hello. I was a little afraid of a blue at pickup because the officer didn't ask to see any pictures. I don't recall any interview result report where no pictures were asked for but maybe there have been some in the past. Weiwei felt that the officer was probably new. After most of her answers the woman turned to talk to a woman who was standing behind her. Weiwei's officer was an asian woman "with very small eyes". Weiwei felt she was very nice. Weiwei answered somewhere between 10 and 20 questions but more questions were asked. A few times, after a question was asked, while Weiwei was thinking of how to say in English, the officer moved on and asked another question. Weiwei laid out our emails, phone records, etc on the counter but they weren't asked for. The only evidence requested was records from my flights and hotel stays in China. After looking at my passport, she asked if Wei knew I'd been to China before meeting her. She told her that she knew that I looked for her for a long time and met other women in China. Interestingly, she seemed to want to know about whether we stayed together in the hotels when I visited. She asked how many times I visited and Weiwei said 3 and they had a little back and forth about whether this time counted. Weiwei told her that after the interview we were going back to the hometown to spend the holiday with the family and so to her it definitely did count. About halfway through this initial part of the interview, Weiwei says that she thought, "Oh! My English better today than any day before! After half the interview, without any request from Weiwei, the officer switched to talking to her in Chinese and Weiwei felt after that that they were just chatting, even though she was still asking questions. In addition to questions about my visits to China she was asked the usual who petitioned for you, where does he live questions. She also asked if she knew I was married before, had kids. She asked some questions about my kids and what they thought of us. She was interested that my son lives in Jerusalem and they chatted about that a bit. She was asked what her parents thought about me, our age difference and her moving to America. All of that was punctuated by her turning to talk to the white woman behind her. She felt that at one point she turned back very quickly as if trying to see how Weiwei looked when not talking to her. Weiwei felt proud that she was standing tall and smiling at her when she turned her head quickly. After she spoke to the other woman for a while she typed, pulled out a pink paper that made Weiwei excited and handed it to her saying something like "here you go!" This added to our suspicion that she was new/training as she didn't say "congratulations" or "you're approved" and she didn't give her any instructions on where to go next or mention paying for delivery. Weiwei said thank you and gathered her stuff and skipped out to me. After a long tearful hug, I realized that she hadn't arranged delivery and I sent her back again. She found the appropriate window and paid the delivery fee. After she came out that time she noticed that somewhere on that white delivery receipt there is a part that in Chinese indicates there should be a stamp there for it to be valid. The ladies hanging around the coffee shop told her they thought that was the way it always looked but she needed to confirm it so she went back to the entrance again. The guard looked stunned and exclaimed, "You again?!" (in Chinese) at that point. If nothing else she had the record for the most re-entries that day! We fretted about the holiday and when we went to bed on Thursday there was still no info for our EMS # online. When I got up the site showed it was delivered the night before about 7. That place is a bit out of the way so luckily we got a taxi driver who knew it immediately and took us right to the front door. So by about 10 on Friday morning we had the visa in hand and were off to some marathon shopping for the holiday (as well as our wedding rings) before returning to Yingkou via Beijing. The holiday is great so far and we'll be flying home together on Feb 1. I don't know about you, but I'm exhausted!