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Good luck on the interview. After you pass it, you would make arrangements with the China Post station at the Consulate to have your visa picked up at the China Post Office, there you will need positive identification to have the visa picked up. It is available on the 3rd day after the interview but sometimes it is available in 2 days. She won't get her greencard right away, since she is on a Conditional Resident greencard, that will be for 2 years. If she arrives a port of entry after your second marriage anniversary she will get a ten year greencard, usually within 30 days. Best of luck.

Yes, right around the corner from the US Consulate is a hotel there, very reasonable, and the room was ok. I could not complain myself since I was there to support my wife during her visa interview. It is on the street between the US Consulate and Ikea in Guangzhou. I don't really recall the name of the hotel but it would be impossible to miss it, after exiting the front exits of the consulate, turn right, and at that corner turn right, and it is right across the street, there is a 7-Eleven convenient store across the street. I believe it is called Guangdong Grand Hotel. Hope it helps you. Good luck on your interview.

Gary, I forgot to mention that you need to get a Certificate of Marriageability at the Consulate. When I got mine, it was $25USD, they just ask you to sign a form stating your intent to marry your fiancee. It shouldn't take more than 30 minutes to have that in hand. The Chengdu Consulate will give you it. You will need to bring your fiancee's ID card with you so they get her name right and the ID number. When I got my certficate, I arrived at the Chengdu Consulate at about 4:30PM and was able to get it the same day just after 5PM.

Gary, I know the feelings that you must be experiencing at this moment. I have been a situation much like your own. I first applied for a Fiancee' visa for my girl, and it was processed through the normal procedures and it was approved from DHS and sent to Guangzhou for an interview. However at the time of the schedule interview my girl was already enrolled in training for 6 months, she was not able to make it to the interview and certainly did not have the support information she needed to present to the Visa Officer at the consulate. I had written to the Consulate in Guangzhou to request an extension of her visa due to the poor timing, and a the reply that I got was that the VO was able to extend the validity period of the visa. The following year we got married in Chongqing, and obtained a marriage certificate, two passport sized red books, (marriage certificates) in Chinese. We had the marriage certificate translated in English and nortarized. I then filed a petition I-130, it was processed and approved, sent along to the Guangzhou Consulate, and we waited for approval notice and interview notice to arrive. When we arrived at Guangzhou for my wife's interview. I had already prepared a briefcase full of supporting documentation, I had prepared copies of our chat history, telephone call logs, telephone bills, copies of letters that was sent to/from my wife and myself. We had selected the best pictures of us taken together out of our selection of a few thousand pictures taken since we've first met. The ones that the Visa Officer was most interested in the pictures taken with family and relatives in them. The Visa Officer was a woman she did ask about my wife's previous Fiancee Visa, why we did not complete it, and my wife stated that at the time it was approved for the interview, it was impossible for her to travel to Guangzhou, and perhaps what was more important was that the timing of the interview was when there was the SARS outbreak in Guangzhou. She also asked for copies of my Affidivat of Support for the past three years. She gave those a quick glance over and then said to my wife, "Congratulations you pass your interview." The Visa Officer, never questioned our previous Fiancee Visa, perhaps because there was never any doubt of bona fide relationship. What help was that when I sent the first fiancee visa application form I-129F, was that I wrote a 10 page letter stating how we met, what we did together, how often we talked. A complete timeline history of events and pictures showing the timeline history. If you have some questions please ask.