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I didn't know about the reduced time from 5 years to 3 years in cases of being married to a citizen. I started the N-400 online today.

Did you mean 3 years instead of 5 years? By "waiting on the 10 yr" did you mean she is applying for Removal of Conditions? She would normally apply for that less than 2 years after getting her green card, so if she will soon have had her green card for 5 years, are you saying that her Removal of Conditions has been pending for 3 years? Her 2 year card expired in April of 2019 and we've been jumping through hoops and waiting since applying for the ten year card. I'll look into going directly to citizenship. I downloaded the test a couple of months ago. I wasn't sure she wanted this but after being here for five years shes been able to see the real china and ccp and she is stunned. She doesn't want to go back.

I am waiting on the 10 yr too. After the initial application they wanted more evidence of a real relationship even though I sent them plenty. I sent more and the last contact was a notice that an interview would be scheduled. That was in March. Her 5 year residency requirement for citizenship will be in December so what I'd like to do is go right to citizenship and ideally apply the 10 years card money to that. Yeah, right.

Who do you think recruited the 10? Besides, not being arrested is not evidence that they didn't exist. The japanese had spies in every country of any importance to them just as the chinese do now. https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/22/us/1941-cables-boasted-of-japanese-american-spying.html https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wwii/the-spies-of-pearl-harbor/ As for the germans, there no doubt were countless german spies here too. I had no control over their fate either. As for the chinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in_the_United_States And that doesn't take into account the spies that are not caught, which I'm confident is a significantly higher number. I stand by my statement that they steal every technology they can. While it is true American factories go there, but with agreements that are quickly ignored and suddenly a chinese factory is making the same thing. I blame American greed and stupidity for this. Frankly, I'm seriously considering not traveling to china anymore. The growing racism and nationalism of many people could easily become a serious problem for travelers there and reports from long time western residents in china tell of more and more incidences. Even my wife's friends criticize her for marrying a white American and living here and her male "friends" still try to have her. I have sensed the change during my 5 trips there. I've seen videos of white men being accosted in public over nothing or over something made up. The chinese man will begin shouting loudly making false accusations and a crowd will quickly gather and often attack the white man. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY will help you even when you are face down in a pool of blood in the middle of a busy street. It is likely that vehicles will just drive over you. I've seen videos. But, to be fair, this part is the same for chinese victims too. My wife looks at a variety of chinese blogs and is shocked by the amount of lies, misinformation, gossip and rumors that is spread concerning just about everything, relationships, immigration, politics, men, life in the USA, everything. She never talks to anyone, only reads what other chinese are saying and much of what your wives are saying is very critical the the USA and of their American husbands. I am lucky that my wife see's through this crap and thinks for herself. But, we have talked about "what if" scenarios if the US and china get into it.

Regardless of what anyone thinks about the Japanese internments, there absolutely were Japanese spies in the U.S. just as there absolutely is Chinese, Russian, middle eastern and whoever else, spies here now. Chinese citizens, Chinese U.S. citizens and a whole lot of white American citizen traitors. I mean, lets be honest, China has little that wasn't first stolen from some other country. I couldn't pick them out in a line up and neither can anyone else unless the FBI already has this information about someone. So, that' s what leads to all of this. There is NO reason to expect anything different in the future, regardless of who is president, and it would be wise to at least consider your options. Not to mention the, ah...........well intentioned ?.......radicals that might come a huntin for our spouses. To assume it couldn't happen is extremely risky, in my never to be humble opinion. I have my plan for such a thing happening, do you?

The time is near as her two year green card expires in April. I am wondering what the pros and cons are to her becoming a citizen. She has family and bank accounts in China, but sold her property before coming here. She has returned to China three times in the three years she's been here, six weeks, four weeks and three weeks. She loves everything here and doesn't particularly want to go back and if she did it would be mainly to see her mother although we might go together one time mainly as tourists. There are some things I haven't seen. I'm not sure what she will do someday when I die, but I think she would stay here. Why does my computer tell me this site is not secure? In red letters no less.

I am wondering if all the money, fee's, we pay to the federal government for immigration is a deductible expense.

About 1 or 2 weeks after we received the Notice of Action, the work card showed up. I never cared about the work card since my wife won't be working. I only did it in case. About 2 weeks later, I reread the letter and it said something about a dual purpose card. I missed this before. I looked, and sure enough, at the bottom of the work authorization card, in small letters it says it is also a travel document. Read everything carefully !

Of course, I decide to post the question here and the notice of action for the travel and work show up the next day. So, 200 to 300 days for the AOS. That's fine, but I assume that the travel document will show up much earlier since it isn't required after the AOS. Anyone have a time frame for that? It's the only important thing now since she is missing her family so I want to send her back for a month or so.

We received notices of action that they had received the applications for the AOS, work authorization and travel document on May 19, 2016. We went to the biometrics appointment on June 20th and no problem was indicated. So, I am wondering about other people experience with how long it takes.

Ok, thanks.

asks "Current USCIS status" and "Expires on". I don't know what know exactly what they are asking for and I don't think I have anything with an expiration date. She's here on a K1, married and now doing the AOS.

I'm still surprised at how fast the process has moved along. I filed the I 129F in the middle of June '15 and her interview was Nov. 5. I was with her for 4 weeks in May and we did as much paperwork as we could at that time and got her birth, divorce and police documents. The interview came up so quickly that I didn't have time to return to China to bring her the documents for the interview, so I made up 2 identical packages of documents, each one about 3/4" thick. I send each package from the post office on different days as a precaution to try to make sure she got at least one. It cost $63 each (FedEx wanted $103) and they were well tracked and both arrived in 4 days. I always thought it was unnecessary to send the women to the interview with kitchen sink thinking, 2 suitcases of documents, evidence and 6 photo albums, not to mention how difficult all of this would be for them to move this from place to place. I was right about this, at least in my case. I know other people have different situations, but this worked for us. Here's how it went: She went to the first window and gave a Chinese man the medical report, her divorce, birth and police papers, passport, l-134 w/2 attachments, 2015 payroll stubs, 2013 &2014 w2's, 2013& 2014 tax transcripts. The man asked her my name and if she will speak English or Chinese . Ten minutes later she went to another window and it was an American man with good Chinese skills, but they spoke English. He asked about our divorces and how long since divorced, He asked her my name and without thinking she said "Master" and the man raised his eyebrow, smiled and said "Oh" and she quickly said my name. We are still laughing about this. He ask about my children, where she will live, if she was a party member and about her job. He then looked at the pics. I provided about 12 pics that were different from the ones that were sent with the I 129F and we had NO pics with her family. There were two pics of us on the beach in Beihai and she was in a little bikini and the man seemed very happy about this. Maybe because she is hot, but maybe because it showed we traveled together and would dress this way together. Something that probably wouldn't happen in a fake relationship. They did not take most of my financial information and they did not want duplicates of anything that they already had or that she brought to the interview. There was no hesitation or question about giving her the visa after about 10 minutes with the interviewer. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

We did everything correctly and it seems it's just playing the interview scheduling game with the Guangzhou consulate/ CGI Stanley site. This and the DS-160 are new twists to me. I found a customer service phone number for the consulate somewhere in the governments websites. I had my K1 call the number to ask about scheduling and she actually talked to someone, but all they said was to keep trying. A day and a half later she got past the "No appointments available", made the appointment and received an email confirming the appointment date and time. As near as I can gather, they were scheduling interviews from Nov. 2 to Nov 5. She got one on the 5th at 0840. I didn't expect this to happen so quickly especially with the consulates computer problem this summer. Our original I-129F was sent to Texas in the middle of June 2015 and I didn't expect her to be here until the spring of 2016. Now I'm scrambling to get the I-134 form completed, it's supporting documents and additional relationship evidence to her before she needs to go to Guangzhou. I only need to make copies now and get one or two more documents. I think I will make two separate packages of all the documents and send the second one on a different day as a back up. I planned on going back to Nanning in the middle of November for a few weeks and carry these documents with me. So now I'm thinking to not go and just mail everything to her by some speedy method and train her online for the questions and answers for the interview. I assumed the consulate did interviews daily, but maybe not. Maybe appointments are done in the blocks of 4 days, but I don't know how many times each month.

K1 She has the DS 160 confirmation, mailed the required items to the consulate and went to the bank and paid the fee. She made the profile online and signed in on the page to schedule the interview and the website continues to say that an interview appointment can't be made. I know others had this happen too, but I don't know the solution to the problem.