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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

GOOD LUCK!!!

Seems like the 5,6,7 of June have several interviews scheduled for CFL'ers. Especially 5th and 6th. I'd be afraid to have a 6/6/6 interview! Non-issue though since I know my wife's interview isn't then, or we'd have gotten paperwork to that effect

They should stay low key. Don't go marching the streets of Fairbanks waiving Chinese flags and demanding to be citizens. That would be stupid and it would give the wrong impression. (end sarcasm)

My wife lives there... does that count?

CONGRATULATIONS!!! I didn't do a personal letter, but I am hoping that the two giant packages of paperwork she lugs in (so far) will help her get a visa when the time comes!

yeah what he said, with the implicit statement that she is in my life because I want her there and she wants me in hers, neither of us needing to be in each others' lives. _-_

CONGRATULATIONS!!! And good luck at the interview!

I did the K-3 / cr-1 and I didn't send anything more than what they asked for. I think K-1's are different and irrelevant to your process, as a k-3. Send in your 130: Cover letter, with all that is in there, and who you two are, etc. Your address Their address (depends on where you are, which svc center you go to) Date Nature of Submission: I-130 ORIGINAL SUBMISSION To Whom It May Concern: Enclosed please find my Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, for the purposes of applying for a K-3/CR-1 Visa for my beneficiary, [First LAST], and supporting documents. - Payment in the amount of (was $185 when I applied in October) by check - I-130 application - G-325a (quadruplicate) - you, Petitioner, with passport-style photo - G-325a (quadruplicate) - your wife, Beneficiary, with passport-style photo - Your birth certificate (certified/notarized) - Your notarized passport copy - Your divorce decrees (if any) - Notarial copy of your marriage document (aka the little red book) Copies of documents submitted are exact photocopies of unaltered documents and I understand that I may be required to submit original documents to an immigration or Consular officer at a later date. Signed, Your full legal name Obviously you can't submit it until you get back and are fully married. Make sure you have birth certificate, family history for three generations, and a "single statement" all notarized, preferably notarized by a PRC consulate AND a US notary. Why? Because if she lives in a small town, they don't often have a fluent English speaker. This resulted in some delays for us, because they didn't believe the PRC notary. Ironically they had no problem with my small-town notary on some secondary documents, but the main document, single status apostille translation from Washington Dept of State, notarized by the PRC consulate in SF, had to be taken to the next higher (county?) government agency because they had a women who spoke English well and could translate the apostille again for the city marriage "stamper." The single status document and family history weren't translated and with a local US notary stamp. They were accepted out of hand. LOL Just warning you that the wheels over there sometimes roll in ways you might not expect! Merc

Not for those waiting for P4? 220325[/snapback] Actually, I think you will have your interview date before she receives her P4. Especially if you call DOS a few times a week. I'm guessing that you will find your partner is in Que next week. Yes, that's my prediction... 220326[/snapback] Yes, next week as the mailing date for the P4 would be my prediction as well. I don't know if they actually work on th P4 stuff on Saturday but they certainly open case files and log them in. Generally, the K Visa P3 is generated by the logging of the case or case status "open". His P4 is just "due" based on timeline information. It might be a few extra day because GUZ didn't work last weekend or Monday because of Memorial Day Holiday. 220327[/snapback] If the timelines I know of hold current, you could see your P4 in as little as a week. Seems like 'ordinary' P3->P4 timelines are about 30-45 days. Now if we could just get ordinary defined... I'm still surprised by ShaQua's long P4->IV. Like two months. Wow.

I wonder about it all being posturing, like the 3 mile long boulevard in my wife's hometown that leads to nowhere... China may be starting to be concerned about the male/female imbalance, but then it would also seem like a lack of females helps the growth rate slow down like they want. I think that the exodus of chinese women (and men, lets not forget) to foreign countries might be seen as a loss of face by the CCP? You don't see alot of citizens of western countries heading to China, like what is happening in the other direction. I think its interesting that they are talking about it, but that is all it is, until the edict comes down from Beijing...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

My wife matches the times, but adds a fourth meal around 1000-1100pm because GZ is so hot. As for the menu, pretty different for breakfast, but I don't mind. B)

Hate to say it, but just wait. I know people who got the "no P3" response and within a week, p4 was received by their SO's. I do my share of calling, and heck even got a call from them... Break out the cheetos, and don't sweat the fact that the right and left hands have no idea what the other is up to! Merc

Burial by documentation is definitely better than coming in short-handed, that's for sure, but I think I have to agree with a post by pushbrk about how its the picture painted that they rely on, and most of the mountain of paperwork is for the two step, should you fail to impress the first time. Welcome to CFL and congratulations on the green card / visa (CR1 I assume?).

Also include copies of any handwritten correspondence you sent, CDs you sent her etc. all that is proof of relationship. My wife has a 25 slot expandable file, and then a small suitcase for all the emails along with it. She will have about 10kg of junk with her when she finally goes to her interview. Maybe more, since I email her the latest phone statements and she keeps a copy of each in and out email as well. If she needs an oxcart for all the documentation, so be it. Better that every scrap is in there, than nothing. This may be obvious, but please tell me you sent her a notarized I-134 as well! I didnt see that in your list of stuff.

notarize the whole thing. Make a copy of your D/L and SSN and notarize that too. If income is close to the 134/864 thresholds, send bank statements, house-related documents, and a letter from your bank - notarize the lot of it if you can. I'm lucky that I work for a city and one of our clerks is a notary. She'll have free "taco Tuesdays" for the next month, but her stamp is on everything I sent to my wife for her preparation for P3/P4/interview.

It sounds like China Post is urping a bit... They apparently send the P3/P4 packagesUPS - you'd think they would do that, or a better strategy for the actual visa, like a 'will call' window at the ballpark...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Logic would tell me that things should speed up due to less petitions in GUZ, but I don't know how logical they are over there... 217591[/snapback] I was thinking that too. The delay would mean a small lull in the constant flow of applications, since K-1/2's aren't in the mix for a small bit. Maybe not enough to catch them up, but maybe enough to provide a brief speed up? I am actually pretty confident that they are going as fast as they can, constrained as they are by lack of manpower and huge volume... It'd be nice to be a fly on the wall sometimes in the VO breakroom, eh? Don't you just wonder what they think of the changes as time has gone by?

I agree. like the 50's. Also with the glorification of smoking like 50's TV and movies. I think the mentality is there too. Divorce is still frowned on, wives are sweettalked by their husbands, women are gentile and ladylike, while being the boss behind the scenes, etc. 50's trying to build the biggest baddest hugest, regardless of the enviro cost, huge factories churning out all kinds of nasties, and a budding space program to boot!

Taking a holistic approach to preparedness, does seem to be the key. After only a few months I (and I'm sure several others) can pretty much predict who is going to get a blue slip. The thing is, it doesn't have to be the disaster many think it's going to be. I'm convinced the most key issue (beyond meeting the requirements and having the forms with you) for success is the level of confidence the SO displays from the first seconds of the interview. It would seem so much easier for them to display that confidence if they all understood that there is no reason to "fear" the possibility of a two-step approval. If it happens, it happens. My wife will be convinced (the best I can) that we are prepared for either one or two steps. She'll have no reason to fear and every reason to be confident and pleasant. 218358[/snapback] So will I get a blue or a red? If it is theoretically blue, what do you think I am lacking? I'm not trying to put you on the spot, but rather offering myself up as your guinea pig.

make my day law or not, you plug someone, you go to jail. WA has a similar law, but you pop an intruder, you will spend time in jail. I had a friend who was an attorney who found that out the hard way. This said attorney was a naturalized brit who happened to have been 'involved' for 4 years in No. Ireland during 'those' days. Not sure if he was S.A.S. or not, but it wasn't an ordinary unit. That crook that broke into his house... chose... poorly... For the record, I have a sidearm and the missus will learn to use it because I do travel for work on occasion. I live in a tiny town and the only crimes are the one meth lab we once had, a few potheads, and people stealing CDs out of unlocked cars parked on the street. I lock all my doors, and I don't see the need to tempt fate or take any chances.

People don't live on love alone. Someone who has spent over a year and a half here may now have school, job friends, familiarity, other reasons to not want to go back to China as a divorced woman. Her presence in the US may have begun for love, but she does not continue to exist solely at the whim of her husband. Her only role in life isn't "wife". Now, many Chinese women would choose to return to China. But I can easily see why some would not. And I'm not talking about the "green card hunters", I mean honest ones who left their old life behind and began a new life and may not want to do so all over again. 217268[/snapback] I think Dennis143 knows a whole bunch of ladies in that latter state of affairs. I'm always skeptical, now that I and one of my fellow CFL'ers was taken advantage of, but I know the jia de people are the exception not the rule, as was pointed out in several of the scenarios presented in other posts.

Well I am well above the $20k minimum by the 864/134 standards. I hope that is enough! I'm not a rich guy, but I get by ok, and my wife won't be a burden on anyone.