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My real concern is that since my son is "technically" a US citizen, if he can still use his Chinese passport for travel? Will that cause any problem when we apply US passport for him later. Thanks. lvlp

Hi, My son immigrated to US last year and, by Child Act 2000, he would acquire US citizenship automatically. My question is, do I HAVE TO apply US passport for my son NOW (who is only 4 this year) or it can be delayed till he is close to 18 years old? Can he still use his Chinese passport and green card to travel to China and come back to US? Anyone has similar situation? Thanks a lot. lvlp

At San Francisco POE, there is a special line named "New Immigrants" that is shorter most of the time when Citizen lines are long. Do not know about JFK. When entering, just show officer the unopened Visa package, have fingerprint and photo taken, and passport stamped. Pretty simple.

Hey mikepellicore, Congratulations! See your timeline and your wife got her SSN and GC so quickly. My wife entered US 6/4/09 as IR1 in San Francisco and we applied SSN at local Social Security Office on 6/8/09 (they told us even we selected to apply SSN on DS-230 Part II, it was not in the system by then so we needed to apply). Anyway, as of today, we are still waiting for her SSN and the welcome letter from USCIS. Do not know why it takes so long for us. Should we ask Social Security or USCIS about our concerns? Thanks, lvlp

What a run!

4/21/09, 10:02 AM. Just came back to hotel from GUZ. My wife got PINK!!

Good start, Brian. Congratulations! I am ready to fly to GZ. I will update asap.

I will be in Guangzhou 4/19. Hope we all Go PINK!!!

We are going for IR1. Go PINK!!!!!!!

Brian, we have not received P4 from GUZ too. It is said that could take few days. But I think it should be OK to make the travel plan. I am looking for air ticket now to be in GZ around 4/18. To be sure, I will check with DOS Monday to reconfirm the interview date.

So great to hear good news from everyone! Checked mine and it is April 21! Go RED for all of us!!!!

VO = Visa Officer

Congratulations, Trudger24, Lock, and JBHypno! Go RED!!! I will check mine tomorrow. By the way, has anyone of your beneficiary received P4 from GUZ?

Thanks, Brian. Yes, I called DOS this morning and was told the same good news. Seems all of our cases (yours, mine, CooCookie's, JLock's, and Truger24's) sent late OCT08 are now waiting for the interview dates from GUZ. How do you get an interview date when you don't have a P3 sent by GUZ, or received back by GUZ yet? i am wondering the samething... For K cases, GUZ sends P3 to your beneficiary. For IR/CR cases, GUZ sends P4 instead. That's my understanding.

Thanks, Brian. Yes, I called DOS this morning and was told the same good news. Seems all of our cases (yours, mine, CooCookie's, JLock's, and Truger24's) sent late OCT08 are now waiting for the interview dates from GUZ.