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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

GRATS to everyone with August interviews!!!

I've seen many posts in the past year or so about people who watch their SO's head off to China for one, two, three months at a time. I can't fathom this possibility. Why are they going for so long? I can see my wife heading to China for a couple weeks, but three months? No way. We spent too much time apart already. Is it homesickness? Do they quit their jobs?

Many other consulates and embassies around the world allow the SO to come along for the interview, but China/Guangzhou does not.

And don't forget that only Chinese doctors and Chinese news know anything about anything... What Chinese doctors claim to tell my wife run almost 100% opposite than what western doctors tell us... I think part of the time she is screwing with me (she has a wicked sense of humour), but other times, I think she actually believes what I consider to be nonsense. Maybe that is my bias? She has one too, since she bought 1800Y worth of Chinese meds to come with her to the US, assuming the feds will let her do it.

American men who marry Asian women are looking for a docile subservient woman they can dominate. 225780[/snapback] Yeah I get that one too. Until they meet my lao po. Then they realize it was she who wanted the docile subservient one... B)

Enjoy! My wife is 9 days behind yours in coming...

GZ girls don't think too highly of nanning girls either. I've heard that more than a few times. I've also heard that northern girls are too fat and tall, and also that western chinese ("wulumuqi people") don't wash and fight alot. My wife has said that she assumes all foreigners are chubby, especially Americans and Europeans. When I first told her about where I lived, she was afraid. I told her there were native americans here, and she was afraid of being attacked, since she only knew 'indians' from the movies, which of course are westerns There are alot of stereotypes and prejudices. I don't think they are malicious either, but rather just based on being naiive and maybe a little ignorant. of certain things.

Doesnt matter. My wife's dad was a provincial "governor" and her brother, sister, uncles, and brother-in-law are all CCP. My wife wanted to go to school in the US back a dozen or so years ago, so she opted not to join. She didn't end up going, but that worked out for the two of us anyway

Yeah Mike is a great help on these. So it sounds like you are at NOA-1 for your 129F and NOA-2 for the 130. I never got past the I-864 bill on my 130, so I am not the best reference, but I can tell you it takes a little while between NOA-1 and NOA-2 for the 129F (maybe a month or two), so you are right in there for getting your letter on the NOA-2. Keeping tabs by your MSC number on the USCIS website helps too. I DIDNT get a NOA-1 notice for my 129F, but it mentioned it on the USCIS website tracking, and then I got my letter saying my 129F was approved and heading to NVC for processing. You'll have a GUZ# at that point, which is your Guangzhou consulate reference number.

I do not apologize, T, for being offended by this comment. You had me in your hip pocket until you made this judgement. Optimist, pessimist....how about realist? I walked into this process with eyes wide open. I knew the potential pitfalls, delays, etc, and made a decision that no matter what, I was in this for the long haul. FYI, I have been doing my own laundry since 1972 when my mother died. My ex hates housework. I do not classify the F.U.'s as an "inconvenience", to use your buzzword. It is yet another delay. Somewhere along the way, we suffered a one month "delay". We WERE neck and neck with Jesse. I have no idea why, and cannot dicipher the reason. With a fast start, we suddenly lagged behind couples that applied after we did. Our P3 was one month later that most, per the timelines. Inconvenience? No. Yet another blip, burp, f***up....Yeah! Just because you handle your feelings differently than others is no reason to put us down. And PLEASE, skip the pie-in-the-sky pity-party. I am good with where I am....deeply in love with a woman and her daughter, and I also do my own laundry. I'll probably continue, as I don't want my clothes washed by hand in a sink. Your comments on the "issue", however, are most appreciated. Mike 224302[/snapback] I think all of us on CFL knew what we were getting into when we or fate chose our SO's. The naiive and dumb just aren't part of this website

How else could immigration occur? I can't see how the government wouldn't be involved, unless you propose anarchy?

So far this year the interviews scheduled by GUZ appear to be ad-hoc at best with no attention payed to the rules of FIFO. In looking at your timeline, it looks like you've been cleared for the interview so all that GUZ needs to do is schedule the next round, which will likely be for August. 224577[/snapback] The rules of FIFO? I loathe to think how slow the process would be if FIFO rules were followed. Background checks, for example. I would assume that it is WAY quicker to get background on residents of GD province, over somone from Xinjiang or otherwise outlying and small in population. if we had to wait until that example case got through... Their are just too many factors, and no small element of dumb luck, to speculate. Let's just focus on helping each other out, and not focusing on unfairness in timelines. It is the process and not the individual, that resulted in different timelines.

Reminds me of my trip to the GUZ for ACH. I get there and write up my questions. I make small talk with another guy, who has that "deer in the headlights" look to him, and I glance over his questions for GUZ... Well not questions per se, but something to the effect of "I really love my girlfriend, and I really really want her to get a visa. Please let me have one?" Ambitious for a first visit, eh? Dunno where he is now, but I know he left with a blank 129F application in hand from the VO who printed it out for the guy...

nice milestone mike - your k3 is rollin'!

K-3 is already married too. IMBRA may affect them only because it is the same form?

Congrats on this big milestone!

My wife was put on my policy 1/1/06 after marrying in 9/05. However, we changed HRM contractors on 1/1 so it was all graced. No SSN was needed, and she wasn't coming until whenever at that point. All they have on her is her name and a copy of our marriage certificate. I agree that you may want to look at going over the HR person's head. Keep in mind the HR person can wreck your life though, so do it with a positive point of view. Maybe something like how this is a hardship, so maybe the boss could help you in this one instance... Don't say anything ill about the HR person.

Yeah no kidding. I mean the bumps to first are nice, but the main reason I like elite status on an airline is to board first and get a spot for my carryon bags. I don't check because its too often happened that I dont see my bag for several days. With a laptop and my roll along, its a done deal. The only regret is that my bag is 'soft' and some a*****es will squish my bag to get their bag into the overhead. But I find calling them on it works pretty well. I am the guy that will let the old people and people with children by me, when the other freq flyers will just step over them. When I am especially feisty, I will tell them they are misbehaving, like I would my daughters. I love doing that. They know they are wrong, but have this misconception that they are somehow better than everyone else because their job requires them to park their butt in a plane more than others. I fly alot, but that just means I fly alot. Nothing more. I'd rather the Chinese way where they just all queue up, than the ring of freq flyers that forms near gate time, with people creeping a foot or two a minute thinking noone will notice, until it is a giant CF at the gate. Later this month (I hope) I will go over to Seattle to get my wife, and I won't have any luggage. I'll probably board last or close to it. No reason to board early in that situation. But yeah at Tokyo with the buses there is no point. Everyone just boards and you hope you get the right door. People push and shove alot. One of the worst guys I ever saw was a dutch guy. He pushed people out of the way, made the person sitting next to him move so he could have the seat next to him free, and then was standing at the airplane door with his bags before the plane finished taxiing. I was hoping that he'd get detained, but no such luck. I know he was dutch because I saw his passport. He was so rude, I had half a mind to slip his passport under his seat while he was in the WC But no, I didnt do it

Nice milestone accomplished. P4 will come soon

CONGRATULATIONS!!!