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I am trying to decipher my stepson¡¯s high school transcript. Some of the subjects in his school were graded using a 150 point system and some with a more familiar 100 point system. Are there any teachers here who could explain how the Chinese 150 point system translates to an A, B, C, D, F or 4.0, 3.0, 2.0, 1.0 in an American school?

First, congratulations on passing the interview! Thank you for sharing your recent experience in Guangzhou. My stepson is due for an interview, your detailed information will be helpful for him to understand what will happen when he arrives outside the building and on the 5th floor. Thanks!

Well, I followed your advise and pursued the OPTIN. Received an email approval from NVC, but since I had already mailed the AOS paperwork, they requested that I scan everything and submit it electronically. I followed the instructions and scanned and submitted everything in an email electronically. My question is do they usually send any kind of confirmation email that they actually received my email and the AOS documents? Or do we just wait and hope & pray?

Wow, it is definitely time to put me out to pasture or at least buy me some new glasses. Silly me to assume you would have to be a minimum of 21 years old to file a petition, NOPE.

Okay, I must have been going with old information from GUZ SPEAKS last July. I thought he was ineligible due to his age. "Dear CFL Members, The National Visa Center (NVC) has started a new pilot program of electronically processing visa petitions. Under this program all documents related to your case will be sent to Guangzhou electronically, rather than by mail. This should greatly improve the speed and efficiency of visa processing by avoiding delays due to postal service delivery. The electronic processing option is available only for the U.S. Consulate Guangzhou, China and will initially be available only to immediate relatives of U.S. citizens over the age of 21 years (visa categories IR-1, IR-2, CR-1, CR-2, and IR-5)." I was telling my wife that couples could now file their NVC cases electronically. Sure beats the days when people were trying to track DHL packages from NVC to Guangzhou wondering if their case files were stuck in Customs. We'll have to give it a shot, it sure would speed-up the process. Thanks!

Thanks for the info. For some reason I thought I saw something about children under 21 being excluded from the electronic process. I paid the AOS fee electronically, but never received any option from NVC in their communications about doing the I-864 and other forms electronically. Thanks!

I filed an I-130 for my 17 year old stepson. His stubborn father finally relinquished custody. It has been a few years since I went thru this with my wife. Do they now send the original documents such as birth, custody, marriage, divorce & etc. certificates to the National Visa Center? Looks like a change from six years ago when she brought the originals to the interview. I just want to make sure we have the original documents in the right location, China or the USA? Thanks!

My wife lived in Chongqing and would pay her rent 6 months in advance.

The Worcester Telegram, a paper in central Massachusetts, interviewed many people yesterday that had met or had there lives affected by Senator Kennedy. This one stood out to me. I thought we could use a few more citizens like this kid, a State Trooper and a Physician¡¯s Assistant too. [state Trooper Edward Ye had the opportunity to shake hands with Sen. Kennedy on a few occasions but the two never spoke more than a few words, and the senator went to his grave never knowing that the spit-and-polished Asian man was named for him. In late 1963, Mr. Ye's father was living in Rochester, N.Y., and was about to move to a new job as an electrical engineer at Mitre Corp. in Bedford, a U.S. Department of Defense contractor. It became clear that without the proper security clearances the Ye family would be sent back to China since the government was suspicious of the communist regime there. But after hearing of their plight, Mr. Kennedy helped secure the proper clearances and helped Mr. Ye's father gain U.S. citizenship. They named their son after him. Most other troopers at the Brookfield Barracks where he works, and the staff at Baystate Mary Lane Hospital in Ware, where he is a physician's assistant, know him as Ed. But to his family he's Ted or Teddy.]

Such a long journey, Congratulations!

CONGRATULATIONS, wish you a happy life together!

Actually, Alan Shepherd was the first American in space. Followed by Gus Grissom, the poor guy didn't have any luck, almost drowned when his Liberty Bell 7 capsule landed in the ocean and then perished in a fire in Apollo 1.

Heck of a deal, congratulations! Roger, don't you know by now that your little wife is always right.

Don't underestimate a Chinese woman, they can fit many activities into their day. My wife took three English classes in China and still had time to get her Driver's License. I actually brought up the subject because driving is more of a necessity in the USA. I figured it would be a long wait for the visa and why not use the time to learn a useful thing. She obtained her license and also learned to drive a car with a standard transmission. I told her she is ahead of many Americans because most Driving Schools here are now using cars with automatics. Let her do it, it will be great for her confidence when she arrives here.

Conratulations! She did a great job, I am sure many people born and raised in America would have difficulty answering some of those questions.

CONGRATULATIONS!

CONGRATULATIONS!!

CONGRATULATIONS!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Congratulations and Good Luck!

Congratulations!

Hi Rick, I would fill in all the questions on all the forms even though they are repetitive. You will completing even more forms in the future and answering the same questions all over again. Regarding the I-130 and G-325A's, you will be assembling them in a package along with notarized copies of your marriage, birth, any divorce certificates and passport photos. Some people also include a cover letter and attach everything with the ACCO fasteners. Good Luck!

Hank, I am sure you are angry and disappointed now, but I think she will overcome it. At least they told her what additional evidence they wanted. Good Luck!

Congratulations Jim! B)

We went through this process last year. Her passport was notarized in her home city of Chongqing's Notary Office where we had our other Chinese documents notarized and the IRS accepted it.