Randy W

A student visa is her only chance for now, unless she finds an American fiance.

Pick out the best 10 to 20 in your judgement. Blurry and poor quality picture can look suprisingly good when printed at a small size. Go as small as you need to without losing any detail. I had some old underwater photos that I thought were worthless until I printed at about 1 in x 1 in. Remember that you need to show your relationship, not win a photography contest.

I just got my wife her immunization paper (I-693A) signed by a civil surgeon and she received no shots. She showed the marks on her arm, answered some questions, I paid $20 and that was the end of our civil surgeon experience. The vaccinatioon supplement is required for the interview - some people who didn't include it in the original submission have been RFE'd, so it's best to do it now and include it with the I-485. The surgeon will have this form, but some insist on giving her a full medical - shop around.

I think that from the time she handed the pictures to the VO until the end of the interview when she fainted, she felt completely helpless and out of control. It sounds like she had good answers and attempted to give them to the VO.

but this whole part that I've highlighted seems like one big failure to communicate, and that the second VO contributed nothing (unless, like you suggest, he was called over as a witness). So the turning point had to either be the pictures, or something external prior to the interview. What did he say "rapidly in English" that she didn't understand? This interview was so stressful and so shocking to her that she fainted at the end. What's wrong with this picture?

Only her friends will tell you! Wen Li is very easy for Americans, so there is no reason to change it unless she wants to. There have been plenty of threads on how to change it officially, but she may keep her name by simply doing nothing!

The law concerning revocations gives the consulate a list of reasons why an application may be recommended for revocation. The blue slip simply quotes one of these items, and usually does not give anything specific to the case. Third party correspondence, or a background check that possibly erroneously indicated her ex was in the US, maybe? They need to know. It was more than just extremely rude of the VO and/or consulate to not have someone who could speak to her fluently in any case.

The problem I see in this case is that, if it was based on the interview, it was based on a communication failure. UNLESS it was determined (hopefully, erroneouisly) ahead of time that her ex is in the US. It seems to me to hinge entirely on exactly where the interview went south.

There are several things I can't believe about this that I've bolded above. Do they really think that her ex-husband lives in the US? Saying "that we lie" at the interview is simply badgering. I-129F applicants don't marry their fiance's in China. Can you determine from your SO exactly when the interview went south? Or was it from the beginning? Did it arise from a communication problem? It seems like knowing this might help in dealing with the consulate.

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No staples - I recommend loose (stacked neatly) - others may recommend the two-prong things. Printing pictures from a computer is a good idea, since you can print them onto 8 1/2x11 sheets, which fit in very nicely with everything else (scanned receipts also).

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The "God Complex" came from someone stuck at a frustrating point in the process, not the OP. The VO's play God every day in deciding for us whether our relationships are valid. Adding the word "Complex" is not much of a stretch for someone who apparently said it was a lie, and asked questions that the interviewee was having trouble understanding. A blue slip, maybe, but a denial? I doubt that the VO had any more clear of a picture than the interviewee. This sounds like an especially poorly handled interview, with devastating results.

Hope you're right! It's just very discouraging to see the date move backward instead of forward. It's happened several times in the past. I think if the times were updated more often we would see it go backwards more often. Cases are not necessarily processed in order.

I don't buy the use of email as evidence at all. How hard is it to fake emails? EXTREMELY easy. How hard is it to fake hand written letters dated and posted marked? MUCH more difficult. I can wait until the week before the P3 is sent off to churn out 50 emails back dating it. I certainly can't do that with hand written letters and proper postmarks on the envelopes. Personally, I don't even write emails much anymore. In this day of Skype, webcam and cell phones, talking is about all that I do. I have not written a snail mail letter--although I personally think that's the best evidence--and I rarely write email of significance. Everything is done through Skype or Jajah. (BTW, have you guys heard of Jajah.com? Free telephone calls to China). So I really don't have much of a trail. I'm NOT suggesting others do as I am doing. But I think I'm fine. I am not concerned about evidence of our genuine relationship. Emails are ALWAYS acceptable evidence of an ongoing relationship. Logs showing date and time of emails, phone calls, and/or chats are acceptable as well. These are even easier to fake. For those of us who don't share a common alphabet with our SO's, any written communication would be meaningless. What you need to do is present a valid relationship to the VO, showing whatever metod of communication you actually used in whatever format is appropriate.

In a 20 minute or less interview, presentation and image are everything. That's why I advocate the 3 part, 5 foot tall, hinged backdrop. What they may pull as a random selection out of a stack of emails should present a good picture. Volume can be indicated by a log of dates and times. What you keep handy in your kitchen sink is another issue - you are limited only by what you care to carry.

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Mark (member name Timeline) has it. He was able to predict interview dates to within a day or two in some cases. He based those dates on the date the P3 was mailed from GUZ to the beneficiary. Apparently, there is a little fudge room for errors, corrections, whatever. Our case is an example of one that the P3 entry was delayed by 1 1/2 months because of a entry left blank, with the interview still being on schedule. We are still making predictions based on last year's times. Processing times at GUZ haven't slowed down for IMBRA yet. You got your application in ahead of the IMBRA deadline, so hopefully you will go through unaffected. That, I believe makes it January, as others have said. Do what the politicians do: Buy your own - http://www.peekaboopoledancing.com/images/usa_banner.gif

We have a number of people at work who took that route. For the most part, they got a bachelor's degree in China and then came to the US for their graduate studies. I think the hard part is to get accepted to an American school. The timing now is different (post 9-11), so I'm not sure I could help you there. My understanding is that it is a single-entry visa (no trips home), and you are employment authorized. You are allowed a year after graduation to find a job with a company willing to sponsor you for a green card (or, of course, to return to China).

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When you need identification, they will normally accept n from column A and/or x from Column B. Chinese ID and passport suffice for starters - then you get a SS card, state ID, etc. Jiaying didn't bring her birth certificate, because she said it was simply transcribed from the Chinese ID card, so she didn't think it was important. Indeed, the birth certificate, and all immigration documentation show the same (incorrect, but official) birthdate. It seems that whoever made the Chinese ID put the wrong date on it, and it couldn't be corrected. I even got yelled out for "forgetting" this official birthday - we celebrated on the other date. Anyway, like the others are saying, get the birth certificate if you can reasonably do so, but it's no more important for our Chinese SO's than it is for us (When was the last time you actually needed a birth certificate for something?) - the Chinese ID and passport should be plenty.

Same thing here - I had made the photocopies, but they did not want one (no original). I don't think you will need one anymore, although if you can, it's a good idea to bring along some spares.

If someone has to teach you an alphabet, tell you what language to use, or to alter your signature in any way, it isn't your signature. If they want her signature, she should sign the way she normally does. If they ask for her name in pinyin, they are not asking for her signature.

You get a priority date upon approval. For a spouse it is the same as the received date but the priority date is not officially assigned until the petition is approved. They NOA2 will show the priority date. 239984[/snapback] Thanks for the promt reply! Sigh of relief! 239986[/snapback] but has no significance for the marriage-related visas, except that it indicates the date the original petition was received USCONGUZ comment

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