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The advice I got for our upcoming interview is this: 1) It is like a bank window, so you can only slide papers through, not a 3 ring binder. However, you can use the binder to organize everything. 2) The most important thing, is make sure she can FIND what the VO asks for easily and quickly. Then she can remove it from the binder and slide it under the window. 183958[/snapback] Ken, Thanks for clarifying the 3 ring binder issue.

Amen, thank you dude

Folks who have completed the visa interview at the new consular section in Tian Yu Gardens recently please help: 1) Is a 3 ring binder allowed ? 2) did you have to slide your 3 ring binder through the sliding transparent trap-door on the interview counter?

Price fixing??? Isn't that illegal under the Sherman Act?

Of all the things we have talked about for the interview, this is the one thing my gut keeps telling me to focus on..........hearing what exactly that VO is saying to her.............. 182964[/snapback] I'm particularly worried about my SO trying to make sense of the accents of the VO plus hearing thru that bullet-proof glass plus trying to hear over the crowd buzzing in the waiting room.

Not every market is appreciating at the same rate. The coastal cities like Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen are appreciating faster than the rest of the country. This means a real estate bubble just like the USA. Hong Kong property dropped like 30% during SAR's and Asian currency crisis. So my advice, if you're going to invest in China: do your homework before you invest and have a back-up plan.

Send back: 1) DS-230 Part 1 2) OF-169 And start collecting notarized: 1) Birth certs (no expiration) 2) marriage cert (no expiration) 3) police certs (only her) (bear in mind, this document expires in 1 year) 4) collect correspondence & relationship evidence i.e. bank statements, photos, call records, receipts, etc. When you get P-4, then do the I-864. This means, get W-2's, pay stubs, any evidence of assets (stocks, bonds, house, etc) and notarize the I-864. Good luck dude

I use: http://www.ecallchina.com/phone-card.asp?cardID=45 Only 1.9 cents It's cheap, reliable and has call records which is formatted on PDF. And best of all, it includes an SMS (text messaging) online interface so you can tell your SO how much you love 'em. For some reason, folks in China love using SMS.

Dude...chill out. Get a stiff drink and chill out. When you're nice and chill, then you can think.

Visitor's visa i.e. B-1 or B-2 does not allow Adjustment of Status (I-485). The visa is not a dual-intent visa. She must leave at the end of her visit or risk getting deported by the Dept. of Homeland Security. Only visas that allow adjustment of status is L-1, H-1, or O-1 which are related to employment.

Just tell her to contact the "min zheng ju" in Shenzhen. That's the local municipal government office that handles marriage registrations. Then ask her to apply for a "dan shen zheng ming" (Single status certificate)

Try giving "expedite" fees.

It's probably because your SO's came from 6,000 miles away and now you're talking about dying and leaving them alone.

Get a typhoid shot

Great news, congratulations dude.

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WOW! 4 days off in January alone. Maybe I should join the Foreign Service...

Yes, there is another forum for B1, B2, etc etc visas: http://boards.immigrationportal.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3

I'm going for 2.5 weeks. Not having heat at home really sucks. I'm thinking of bringing a space heater. It's 1500 Watts but I need to get a A/C transformer for the voltage differences. Has anybody on CFL ever brought a space heater to China before?

You are correct!! 177971[/snapback] Guys, DS230 Part 2 is used. You get it with your P4 package. In Part 2, your SO needs to sign a statement of truth in front of the consular officer during the interview. She can fill in the rest of Part 2 but don't *sign* the form until she gets interviewed.

The reasons why China has the slowest consulate: 1) historically the Chinese have *always* been discriminated by the U.S. government; going back as early as 1870: http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Chinese.html 2) the U.S. government has never been comfortable with welcoming communists or citizens of communist nations to USA; remember your buddy Fidel? There is an exception -- Cubans; they were given the wet foot-dry foot law simply because they've got voters in both parties, in the congress and in the senate and they're very visible in Florida 3) the Immigration Act of 1965 was designed to curtail Chinese immigration to USA: http://www.archives.gov/locations/finding-...mmigration.html So, the main fault lies with the law. Law which was enacted by Lyndon Johnson's administration. So to answer your question, what the hell has your wife and you done to this country...nothing. This country just doesn't want Chinese people to immigrate here.

What about just photocopying your credit card statement showing the purchase?

Chill out guys: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4424134.stm

IMHO: 1) Yes. 2) Yes 3) Chinese names appear similar in Western alphabets i.e. Wang Li Li in Beijing is the same as Wang Li Li in Shanghai. But written in Chinese, the Wang Li Li can be different. So gwai-lo's computer software don't understand that Wang Li Li can be different persons. 4) Few staff in Washington DC doing name checks. Not to mention, the staff needs security clearance to access CLASS, NCIC, etc etc And security clearances take time to approve -- even for US Citizens. 5) Staff who gets Security clearances usually leave for better pay at private government contractors like CSC, Raytheon, etc etc. Or worse, they get burn-out from the low-pay, and mind-numbing job, checking names and staring at a green computer screen all day. (eg: my previous supervisor got carpal tunnel in both hands after 5 years at the NSA....and they never paid a dime for her surgery) 6) Guangzhou is a big bottle neck. Look at India (population = 1 billion), it has 3 US Consulates handling Immigrant visas. And not to mention the US consulates in India have more useful information on the websites.