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In Internet Explorer, check under "View", "Encoding" that Chinese Simplified is checked.

You need to ask GUZ for expedited processing to make sure the visa can be awarded by Nov 14 - the K-2 follow-to-join is good for one year after the K-1 visa issuance. follow to join USCONGUZ comments

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It is also very easy for someone on a student visa to bring their spouse here.

Guess what folks! 2007 and check out 2008 while you're there!

We are confusing the words SOME and ALL here. SOME people have reported an extremely short interview. The VO comes to the window, goes through the motions with a couple of questions, and hands out the slip, red or blue. The tone of the interview is all in one direction, sometimes the VO seems to already have the slip in hand. These are APPARENTLY pre-determined interviews. MOST cases spend more time, with the VO possibly even shifting his tone. Some of this is to watch your reaction. To say that a VO would take a 2 minute look at a case and turn it down on the basis of that look is absolutely scary. These are the cases that the beneficiary often reports may have been "pre-determined".

There are plenty of people who are turned down for a specific reason - communication being one of them - but, yes, I agree that it will seem like luck-of-the-draw to us. There will never be a magic formula for getting the visa. No matter how well 'prepared' someone is, there shoud always be a little apprehension about what they might NOT be prepared for

Wait and see what they say. Pink usually means "pass", while blue is a request for more information. The blue slip was expected for your step-daughter, since she had not had the medical.

GUZ has been known to give out interview dates this late in the month for early in the next, but, like Mike says, you most likely are not in the queue yet. They will be giving dates out shortly for late October, if your case is ready to be scheduled.

Lee - in our case, they called her about a line left blank, and did not enter it into the computer until they received the corrected form. In the meantime, it languished at the White Swan Hotel ( mail receiving area for GUZ) for a couple of weeks. About 1 1/2 months in all. We were still on time by Mark's prediction.

P3, Mike! P3! Email GUZ through their wesite. There's a link to it somewhere on Candle. I wouldn't think it would cause any problems, but you never know. We had a similar issue - my wife had to mail in a new (DS-230?). Her interview was still within a day of the prediction. The guess is that they schedule you based on the day they send out the P3, if all documents are complete

And the instructions given by the examiner. 237791[/snapback] Pointing. They handle deaf people as well. 237792[/snapback] Sometimes that works, but in our location they use verbal commands for the exam unless the person is identified as legally deaf. They allow deaf interpreters as well. Federal law doesn't require them to do anything for a foreign speaker like it does with those with a disability. 237793[/snapback] Different for different states. For Texas, no interpreter of any kind is allowed on the road test. The grade is simply based on the observations of the instructor. If English fails, they do point.

And the instructions given by the examiner. 237791[/snapback] Pointing. They handle deaf people as well.

I don't know about Florida, but in Texas, there is no language requirement. You are allowed to bring an interpreter for the written test, but not for the driving test. You must understand the common road signs. Jiaying had a Cantonese driving instructor for the written part, and then hired him for one hour to show her the car. Then I taught her everything I knew. The instructor provided a Chinese language study guide. There are also Chinese handbooks availabe from Washington and California.

Sounds like you fell victim to a keyboard entry error, and the best bet might be to go for the EAD as soon as possible. You deserve better.

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United is VERY expensive. One way from Beijing to LAX is 1295 now.. and he would still need to fly from Changchun to Beijing. FlyChina.com has a ticket from Changchun to LAX for 708.00 They list etickets but I have seen others say that China doesn't do e-tickets. Does anyone know? Thanks 237659[/snapback] Yes - any e-ticket that you can buy will be accepted. I've always used Beijing as my port of entry with an e-ticket. He could use the credit card or money that you send him to get to Beijing, then the e-ticket from there, if Changchun doesn't do e-tickets. But I expect the credit card will be good enough to get him to LAX. Western Union money can be picked up at any China Post (post office) or Agricultural Bank of China.

It is not safe to assume there is always an e-ticket. How is Li getting from his hometown to a major International Airport in China? It's not even safe to assume somebody at a Chinese airline counter in a city the size of Nanning even knows what an e-ticket is. 237646[/snapback] It's been done before. I always use e-tickets, including to (and from) Nanning. I sent my wife one for her trip back to the states. They are not THAT backwards. If an airline issues e-tickets, someone at their counter will know what it is.

You give a city when sending the money - he can pick it up at any location in that city. China Post also handles Western Union. I'm sure he can pick up the money and the visa at tjhe same time. There's always an e-ticket.

We have a new hire (this year) at work, with a PhD in Nuclear Physics (I'm sure). He's from Mianyang, which is 100 miles or so northwest of Chongaing. Anyway, his student visa expired last Thursday, but my company will be unable to get him a work visa for another six weeks. So they sent him packing! Handed him a laptop, told him to take his wife, and find a hotel in Beijing with a good internet connection. He will work from there for 4 weeks, and then take two weeks off to visit his family before coming back with the visa. Probably a good deal for him, since I'm sure he hasn't been back in a few years. I know the lawyers are doing this to be on the safe side, but do they really need to do this? Isn't it easy to get something that would allow him to stay? Or isn't even just applying for the visa good enough to keep him in the country? (like I said, though, he's probably happy to be back for a few weeks)

The PayPal debit card worked fine for us, except that no ATM in her home town would take it. If it works in her home town, it is the easiest and cheapest ($1.50?) method to get her CASH at an ATM. Even so, like pushbrk says, it came in VERY handy on her trip to the US to get cash in Beijing, and then American money here. The only time she had to use it in the US was to get a baggage cart.

I think you just go with the flow here. Either you get the card now, or you get it later. Hopefully, it's a beaurocratic snag that will be straightened out w/your next visit. Take a copy of SSA K-1 question and SSA policy with you, but the problem may not be at your local office. K-1's have (fortunately) been able to get their SSN's sooner than for other visas. Hopefully, that isn't changing.

Wow! That sounds unique! Hopefully, they're not clamping down on K1 SSN's. and hopefully you won't have to wait for the EAD. Your 90 days is up next week.

The K3 itself IS the option you choose in order to marry in China. I don't think that is mis-worded. Historically, the K-1's have gone through, on average, more quickly than the K-3's While few K1's have gone through faster than pushbrk's K3, I'm sure than even fewer (if any) K3's have gone through more quickly than his. K1's have gone through in as little as 5 months. However, any K applications filed after March 5 will be subject to the IMBRA regulations. The effect of this on the K visa process can be fairly severe while they sort out the various aspects of the law. We have yet to see any IMBRA visas be awarded. The CR-1 visas are not subject to this law, so that may end up being your quickest option.