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SHE PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE MANY PHONE CALLS TO MAKE!!! I WILL POST MORE WHEN I GET MORE DETAILS!!! THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!!! MY BABY CAN FINALLY COME HOME~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thanks everyone! Well, I will be giving her a wake up call here in about 3 hours... I'm guessing the interview should be finished between 10 and noon china time, so that makes it 7pm - 9pm tonight pacific time... so I should know in about 8 hours!!! The feeling is almost like waiting for a baby to be born, only this time it has been about twice as long of a wait! heheh I gotta run... hopefully be posting some good news tonight! Take care everyone

that is the weather channel's lingo, for those of you that don't know... tomorrow is the big day!!! the almighty interview!!! god, it's been so long waiting for this day... hard to believe it's really finally happening... I have to say, it really is surreal when it finally does come... am I dreaming? you wait and hope and call and worry and wait and fill out more forms (and yes cry) and wonder and wait and wish and pray and call DOS over and over again... and then one day it actually comes!!! ... my god!!! is the interview day really tomorrow???!! I had to leave work early today because I really could not concentrate on anything today... I can only imagine how I will be tomorrow, waiting for that phone call from her... I just wish I could be there with her right now... luckily her mother was able to go with her to support her... I know she will do fine... she is the love of my life!!!! and I'm looking forward to posting the infamous "she passed" post tomorrow well, words cannot say how helpful this site has been for me... I may be a bit of a quiet and shy one that doesn't really post much, but please know that I've spent many a day (and nights) reading the postings here... Thank you all for your stories and support throughout the past year... you guys have always been there for me when I needed you... thank you all for making it (almost) bearable and helping me get me through this visa nightmare... best of luck to you all...

I found this page very useful when sending in my forms. Hope it helps and good luck! http://uscis.gov/graphics/fieldoffices/scn...nal/index.htm#H

that's great news, thanks everyone and good luck to you all too

there is also definitely an element of luck involved... I think writing to my congressman may have also helped, even though I got the standard 'canned' response...

Thanks eeyore, sorry to hear about that... good luck to you too...

Visas awarded on Thursday may be picked up on Saturday. Perhaps someone can fill you in on the times. 203212[/snapback] thats great news! yes, if anyone knows about this please let me know

thank you! hehe yes, you make some very good points also we are used to knowing at least when things things will usually happen... if from the beginning they said you will have your interview xx/xx then I think it wouldn't have been so bad... but the way it is now you don't know up until one month before or less... and the other part that sucks is that each step of the way is so variable in how much time it will take to the next step... and there's so many places along the way that there can be problems that you never really feel you're out of the woods and can just sit back and relax... all the way up to the last minute... hmmmm, even though the post office is open saturday, I think since the consulate is closed they will not be able to deliver it to the post office (unless it is the post office that actually does the visa), it will not matter, right? but that would be great if it's true

well, I found out from my wife that it takes 2 days to pick up the visa, and since our interview is on a thursday and 2 days means saturday, that equates to a monday pick pick up date unfortunately... so it seems thursday is the worst day for an interview... on top of that, it's going to be during some big convention they are having that week in Guangzhou, so all the hotels have doubled and tripled their prices and most hotels are already filled, luckily my wife was able to find one... (and of course they wouldn't just take my credit card over the phone, so my wife had to go to a bank to transfer the money directly). Funny how even a wonderful thing like going to the interview can cause stress and be difficult... I tell you, I don't think any step of this process has been even the slightest bit easy or uncomplicated... and I wonder why in P4 they ask all the same questions all over again... I really cannot wait until this is all in the past for sure. I think we all deserve some type of medal or t-shirt we can all wear to show we made it through this heheh (that includes the SO's)... even basic training in the military wasn't this stressful or difficult for sure... I think if we all can make it through this we can surely make it through anything! P.S. I have to say, all my days of playing adventure games and games like Asheron's Call has surely helped alot.. I just looked at each step as a "quest received and a quest advanced", it was my way of turning something that was a pain to do into something not quite as bad... sort of like a quest to save my princess, only this time it is real hehe Good luck to you all.

My wife just got hers in the mail today, DOS said it was sent out on the 17th... so that is 6 days... we're actually very lucky it arrived... they somehow put her old work address in Shenzhen on the appointment letter itself, but thankfully it was sent to her home address where she is now near Shanghai.... good luck!

CONGRATS MAN!!!!!!

couldn't have said it better myself, YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!!! thank you and good luck to you all!!!!

same for me!!! I called DOS this morning and we got P4 and an April 20th interview too!!!! CONGRATS!!!!!

well, I finally got the answer I have been looking for!!!!! called DOS this morning and we are now scheduled for an APRIL 20TH interview!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't believe my ears!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CAN IT REALLY BE TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!