Katrina

Thanks! I checked. It expires in June. So, it's about time. He is here on CR-1.

That's funny! I will tell my husband that I hope he does not do this. Our last name is Tie, in chinese it is pronounced "tia" but Americans say Tie like a necktie. I always tell my husband we should have a son and name him Beau Tie. He doesn't appreciate that very much.

Thanks!!! I've had my name changed on both my driver's license and my social security card since right after we arrived. So, everything we have for evidence is in my married name. I think we will be ok. Thanks!

We are a little different than most of you guys. I am the wife and the USC. My husband is the chinese citizen. Upon returning to the US I changed my name to my husband's family name. So, on the I-751, where it asks for my name it never gives an option for maiden name. I assume they will figure it out since my social and birthdate are the same as before, right? And, my middle name is what my maiden name was. Do you guys think I am doing this the correct way? Thanks for the help! I really do appreciate it!

I can't remember the exact date on the GC and I'm at work now. I will have to check when I get home. But, I remember I counted backwards from that date in my calendar a while ago and marked it. Hmmm....I'll double check when I get home. We are both working full time and going to school full time, on top of everything else. So, something may have got mixed up in my, already too full, brain. Thanks! I'll double check.

Hey, I haven't been active in a long time. You get to the US and get busy with other things, but we are getting ready to file I-751 at the end of this month. I saw on here someone said "hopefully you haven't moved since you filed." We have moved three times since we arrived back in the US. Will this be a problem? Or do you mean we hopefully will not move from the time that we file the I-751 to the receipt of the GC? Thanks for the clarification!

My sister is in China and married to a Chinese gentleman. They have been married a year and a half. My broke her ankle and can't work for three months. My father wants her to come home to heal. But she won't be able to get through the airport with her bags and not being able to walk. Is there some kind of temporary visa her husband can get to bring her back home?

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations!!!!

Alec, Congratulations!!!! And best wishes in your future together. Yes, that was me. I thought you looked familiar but already felt I was being too nosy by butting into your conversation. I was still waiting for the result at that time and it looked like the coffee bar was getting pretty empty. But, right after you guys left my husband came down. Truly, congratulations to you and Elf. I hope you have a great future together. Katrina

Sorry for the confusion. K1's go in the immigrant line.

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I don't know why two of these words have links to them. Don't bother clicking them. It's nothing that I wanted to put there. I tried editing and deleting them and retyping but they didn't go away. Sorry. My computer is in chinese and SO just fell asleep. Don't know how to get it off.

Ok. We have rested now and are ready to tell everyone about the interview. We stayed in the apartment complex right above the consulate. It was very convienent. We just walked downstairs the morning of the interview. Others have said it before and I will say it again. It doesn't matter what time you get there. I know for a fact my husband went in with another lady at the same time (because I sat and talked to her husband) and she came down two hours earlier than my husband did. So, the time you arrive doesn't matter. After seeing how many people line up everyday for immigration visas (we could see the line outside of our apartment window every morning) I have a new found respect for the Guangzhou consulate staff. Those guys are working REALLY hard. There were so many people there. Four long lines out to the street of immigrant visa applicants and then more lines for non-immigrant visa applicants. These lines are here everyday. If someone from the consulate is reading this I want to say I respect you very much. Your work is very hard. (And, I'm not just sucking up because we have our visa. ) Ok, so here is what happens. You line up outside the consulate (immigration visas on the left). Try not to let people push you or cut in front of you. SO will show his/her passport and P4 appointment letter. The guard will want to see the USC passport and remind USC that he/she can only go to the fourth floor. Go inside and up the escalator to the fourth floor. Here is the extremely expensive coffee shop. (15 yuan for one can of coke). SO will have passport and P4 checked again and continue up escalator. USC will sit inside coffee shop with everyone else waiting. I do have to say looking around at the faces in the coffee shop I felt like I was in a hospital waiting room and everyone's wife was upstairs giving birth. Everyone looks EXTREMELY nervous. But, then you see people coming out with smiles and you start to relax. At the fifth floor they will check the SO's passport again. (From this point on you refers to SO. Take your cell phone and go through the metal detector. They will give a card to pick your cell phone back up. Then, you enter the waiting room and wait for them to call your name. After they call your name you will go up to the window and they will give you a number. You will give them the I-864, look at your passport, and the chinese worker opened the medical envelope. They asked some simple questions in chinese. 1. Who is your sponsor? 2. Who is your joint sponsor? Then, they gave the letter to pay the immigration fee and the number for the interview. Then, go to window 16 and pay money. They will give you a receipt. Then, sit back down and wait for them to call you. Everyone stands up and takes the vow in Mandarin and Cantonese. They have you vow that all information from your immigration is true and correct and you have not included any false information. They call your number and you go up for your fingerprints (on that day it was window 17). An American woman took his fingerprints. He said she was very nice and could speak chinese very well. He also says to add it sounds simple but takes a very long time to get to this point. Go back and sit down. They call your number and direct you to a window and this is the interview. The visa officer was a very nice and friendly guy. SO: (Smiles and starts the conversation) Hello. VO: (Replies) hello. May I see your passport? (Hands over SO passport and USC passport. Then, he started looking at USC's passport.) VO: Does your wife live in China? SO: Yes. VO: What's her job? SO: Foreign teacher at my universityxxxx. VO: What does she do? SO: She is a teacher. She teaches a foreign language. VO: What do you want to do in America? SO: Find a job and feed my family is the first thing I want to do. (Then checks SO's passport.) VO: Have you entered America or another country before? SO: No, I have never entered America or another country. VO: Have you entered Hong Kong or Macou? SO: No, I have never entered Hong Kong or Macou. VO: Has your wife been to any other countries before? SO: Yes, she went to Africa before. She likes to travel. (He checks USC's passport again.) VO: Wow, she's travelled a lot. Yeah, she entered Ghana before. (He could see the visa) (Checks USC's file and found about where I used to work) VO: I've worked at a place like that before (smiling and joking). Reminds me of when I used to work there. I worked there a long time. Who's your (SO couldn't understand the question)? SO: Could you please repeat what you said (said it too fast). VO: (In chinese) Who's your joint sponsor? SO: My wife's mother. VO: (In English again) May I look at your pictures? (Gives pictures. He started from the top of the stack looking at them one by one but very quickly. Seemed like he payed more attention to SO's reaction and not what was actually in the pictures. Chose a picture from our wedding where a close friend had walked me down the aisle) Who's this person? He must be very important? SO: That's one of my wife's best friends. He also lives in China. He works at xxxx. (Chose pictures and asked about the people in them and what was going on. All done very quickly. SO could reply and give responses very quickly and fluently. VO even made jokes and was very friendly during the whole time. Then another consulate worker came over to ask him some questions. He turned off the speaker for two or three minutes. SO felt very nervous, anxious, and just waiting. Then, he turns back and turns speaker back on) VO: (Smiles and says) You know SO: I understand. There are too many people and it's hard work. No problem. VO: Let me look at your case again (He had lost his place because of the distraction and needed to figure out where he had left off.) Ok. Everything is ok. I will let you enter America. (Stamped SO's passport.) Take this paper just over there and they will arrange for you to pick up your visa at the post office. SO: Thank you very much and wish you have a good day. The VO spoke english very quickly. SO says during the entire interview the visa officer was very nice and friendly. SO says visa officer gave him a very good impression. He thinks he is a good guy. He likes making jokes. He payed a lot of attention to his job and SO says he respects him. I would also like to add a note of thanks to all those to CFL. We would have been wondering in the darkness without this site. Thank you to everyone who has helped along the way. This is a great site with a very supportive community! We were well prepared for the interview and this website is the main reason for that. We owe part of our success to everyone here has helped us. Thank you for your encouragment, advice, and support!

We stayed with at these apartments during our time in Guangzhou. They were very nice. The owner came and picked us up at the train station. The aparment was big, nice and very comfortable. The location is GREAT! For those who haven't been to China or whatever, it is very common here to have businesses on the first few floors and then apartments above that. This apartment is in one of these buildings. But, the great thing is the business below the apartments is the CONSULATE! The morning of the interview we just took the elevator downstairs and walked around the corner. I highly recommend staying here to anyone looking for a place to stay.

My husband passed his interview on Tuesday. We didn't check email or anything the whole time we were there. So, this is the first chance I've had to post an update. We took the train there and back and are both really tired. After my husband has rested we will type up a review of the interview.

Congratulations!!!!

I also got married in Shenyang and they included the translation with the marriage documents. Then, when we DCF at the consulate the lady made copies of those documents from the marriage and that was it.

Congratulations and best wishes for your future!

Alec, Our interview is the 25th and almost every hotel and apartment place is full. In the GUZ info section their are two apartment topics. The one with Angela and Mr. Xie is already full. The other one still had a room, but we also called hotels. They were all full and VERY expensive. Their some kind of fair or something going on in Guangzhou during this time and prices are going to be very high! You had better call as soon as possible and make a reservation. Also, she will go in for the interview. They will check her medical packet, check her fingerprints, and a few other things. At some point she will be directed to a window to pay the interview fee. Then, she will have her interview. Good luck!

That was just a mistake. You only need to send one DS-230 Part 1.

Congratulations on getting your P3!!!!!

As yuliki has already stated, the directions on the I-864 say to provide the most recent three years tax returns. Better to be prepared and have too much than not enough. Good luck!

Congratulations and best wishes for your future together!

Congratulations on getting the P3. Our NOA1 to NOA 2 took a really long time (3 months). But, after that things moved pretty quickly. So, don't lose hope. I hope the rest of it goes quickly.