Sarah1031

Daniel, If I did not guess wrong, your wife's ID on 001 is jesuslovesme. I contacted her several times by messages and she has been a great help to me. Congratulations!

Frank, You thought right. Shanghai consulate only processes non immigrant visas. We just filed the petition in Shanghai which is the regional Embassy/Consulate for the area we are living now. Then they will forward the petition to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in beijing to approve. After the approval, beijing will forward the petition to Guangzhou for the real visa processing.

We got our package 3 from GUZ this morning. We are so excited! So we will have one more package to come and then interview, oh yeah!

People here are right. Go for CR1 Direct Consulate Filing when you work in China. You have to have a working Z visa and foreign residence card to file I-130 petition in china. That is what we did too. We are now waiting for Package 3 now. If you go for DCF, it will just take at most nine months for your wife to get a visa. It is much much faster than filing from the States. Good luck!

Thanks a lot guys. We are waiting for our P3 now and hope it will show up soon. The notice showed up much sooner than I expected and I hope the next packages will be the same

We got the notice of approval the day before yesterday,which said our petition was approved on May 17th,2005 and has been forwarded to Guangzhou. Yeah!! I know we still got a long way to go but this really made us happy.

Jenny, thank you very much for checking. Yeah, money order is alright. It is said on the form I-130 instruction that all checks and money order are acceptable. Thanks again. Sarah

Thank you all very much for the information. I got my birth certificate done and took it back to the notary office this afternoon. They told me to pick up the copies next Tuesday. So let me see what we have now: Form I-130 Form G-325A for my husband Form G-325a for me His birth certificate My birth certificate His passport ( including Z visa ) My passport Our marriage certificate ( translated and notarized already) His residence permit ( little green book ) Money order ( 185 dollars ) Photographs ( altogether 2, one for each of us right? ) So did I miss anything? Thanks a lot! Sarah

We are getting all the documents done for the trip to Shanghai to file I-130. I don't have my birth certificate because I was born at home not in the hospital. This afternoon I went to the local notary office and the dean there gave me this form which worte " birth certificate " on the very top. It is just a simple piece of paper listing my name, date of birth , place of birth and my parents' names and present addresses. He told me to fill it out and also get a stamp from my working unit. And then I got to take it back to the notary office to get it translated and notarized. He told me that is all I need for birth certificate. So will this " birth certificate work? Anyone that got experience on this can tell me? I am really worried because I don't want us end up getting to shanghai but could not get anything done. Thank you!

Jenny, Thank you for your advice. What you said is quite wise. I think I'll go ahead to get my birth certificate done anyway because I will definitely need that in the future even if I don't need it this time. As soon as it gets done I will go to Shanghai together with my husband. I hope everything goes will well there! Sarah

Hi Bob, Thank you so much! I already got my husband's birth certificate. As for my birth certificate, I think I can get a certified birth certificate from local Notary Office here in this city. I asked the head there last time when I was getting our marriage certificate translation certified about it. So will that be okay since my mom said she did not have my original birth certificate? I was not born in a hospital, but at home. I hope this makes sense. Again, thank you. Your help is sorely needed. Sarah

Thank you so much for the information. I feel so much better now! It is really a good thing to be in Candle for love! By the way, right now i still have some more questions: 1. Should my husband go to the Shanghai Consulate alone, or can I go with him? 2. As far as I know, the petitioner's birth certificate is needed for form I-130. The beneficiary's birth certificate will be needed for P3 or P4, but not for form I-130, right? Thank you!

Hi, My name is Sarah and I have been married to my husband ( his nickname here is Buzzy ) for one and a half years. He is living in Huaibei, Anhui Province with me and we are both teaching English in this small college.Also he got a Z visa and a residense card ( little green book). Right now we are planning to immigrate to America because we think the sooner we start over in America , the better the life would be. But as he mentioned, we sent everything to GUZ and no reply and we lost our $185. We found out two months later that we sent to the wrong place and since then we have been search for information for CR-1 DCF. But the consulate websites are so confusing while this website has been being a much greater help. So I was wondering anybody here could help me. As far as I know beijingjenny,BobandNicole and Lizziedannypie are DCF ,too. I have a few questions here and I hope anyone of you can help me. I hope I am not being a big pain here. 1. I know our I-130 petition should be sent to BJ, should I send it to BJ directly or I just send it to Shanghai? If I do, should I take it there in person or just mail it? 2. Do the documents we need include my husband's little green book? 3. I know we can download the form from internet and print it out, so my question is : Is A4 paper ok? Do they accept it? 4. After filling out the form, should we send the original form or copy them and send the copies? Do they just take original copies? 5. Should we send the money order together with the documents or just send it to them whenever they request it? Ok, I just can think of these questions so far. I will really appriecate it if someone here could help us. Thanks a lot! Sarah