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Thank you all for sharing your personal stories. My biggest qualm is that the United States is comprised of immigrants from all over the world as symbolized Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" What's worse yet, it's the silent bigotry and discrimination currently practiced in the US, including within the government.

I find plenty of Americans also get their knowledge and subject self-proclaimed expertise from the movies and national news media and regular television programs.

I-129F petition of K1 (fiance) visa is processed by USCIS much faster than the K3 (spouse). It is 2 months versus 8 months to go through CIS alone. Add 1 months to go through NVC. Add 4 to 6 months to go through US Consulate in Guangzhou. You probably don't want to wait that long to get married. The I-130 petition for CR-1 visa runs about 2 months through CIS and 3 months through NVC, and the dreaded 4 to 6 months through US Consulate in Guangzhou. My K3 petition is worthless and turned out to be a waste of money. You will read other suggestions to send K3 but they are the ones who filed theirs over a year ago, before INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service under State Department) was split up into CIS (Citizenship and Immigration Servies, of Homeland Security) and the NVC (State Department). I read that when CR-1 visa processing was revamped to be more efficient, the K3 processing stopped for 3 months because they agency thought it would be abandoned. So they have a 3 months backlog, which can be fixed if they wanted to. It is apparent they don't want to fix it, so it becomes a money trap agency for that additional $165 fee to process I-129F. I am not sure why the K1 is not impacted the same way. K3 is processed at the National Benefits Center in Missouri, and K1 in Vermont. My I-130 for CR1 visa is about one month away from being completed at NVC and sent out to US Consulate in Guangzhou. My K3 is still 3 months away. When CR1 arrives first, and K3 arrives later, the K3 is automatically voided. If the K3 arrives first, you have to inform the Consulate to process the CR1 and drop the K3. You should also write emails and letters as suggested by the following post, and also ask your friends and relatives to write the same. Who knows?, that there may be changes made by the time your case gets to Guangzhou and that 4-6 months time could be reduced to 2-3 months. We need lots of people to write. I intend to rewrite the posted letter (by jtaylo) and change it to a third person writer/observer and send it to my friends and relatives so they can send it out too. http://candleforlove.com/forums/index....82e01f2add5ea00

Thank you for posting the letter you sent. I will tweak it a little and send it out. I will also add possible "intentional discriminatory intention" by the State Department because US Embassy in China (with one designated Consulate in Guangzhou) is definitely one of the slowest in the world to process visas for Chinese spouse and fiances. It is also against family values considerations, and I have to spend time and money making two to three weeks trips to China to visit my wife periodically (every 3 to 4 months). That's also money that would be better spent in the US rather than abroad. I will also ask my brother, cousins, and other relatives to send one out. Fred

Four months?, just to get interview date, and nothing happening?!?! It's surreal. Isn't anything USA in the 21st century, or some parts are livin' 18th century?

It all sounds like American bureaucratic boondogles at its best.

There are many of those super hardheaded dingdongs in the government. They don't even know when they are clueless. It's a good thing you did not know either, or there could have been a hot confrontation. Those dimwit bureaucrats are always so self righteous and self serving. Plenty of them at the US Consulate in Guangzhou.

I agree plenty of them men in China are not fit to be husbands, nor to be dads. What a bunch of dead beats too. Not all, but plenty of them are that way. And if them men become successful with their jobs, then they chase after younger women. Oh, well, I have to thank them, or otherwise I wouldn't find my wife.