A comment on this. I strongly believe that these "nicknamed" VOs are largely fictional characters, only loosely based on real people. ANY female, black VO will now result in someone posting "interviewed with black pearl". The first person who was given that name on 001, was likely rotated out years ago, as well as the likely different person given that name on CFL the first time. Yet if your SO knows of "Black Pearl" and a black lady happens to be interviewing her, she will walk to the window with a lump in her throat anticipating to be treated rudely by the fabled hard-assed VO of doom... "Beware Black Pearl - pray for Geeky Guy with Glasses" lol our own mythology.... the less read into that kind of thing the better. It's useless. 167462[/snapback] It's always easier to blame someone else when we get rejected. The strong and positive person sees injustice and difficulty and does what they must to overcome..... 167464[/snapback] Fictional or not, VO's reputations do precede them. My fiancee heard of "the black pearl", while waiting for her interview, on 12 Dec 2005. Of course that is who did her interview. My fiancee walked up to the window dreading the entire situation. The woman did not say, "Hello", did not smile, and did not look at my fiancee, only asked for my fiancee's paperwork. After looking through it she asked how much I made in a month. My fiancee was terrified, because she did not know, that is something that was not important to us. When she said, "I don't know", my fiancee was asked if she spoke GOOD English. My fiancee only shook her head. Those were the only questions she was asked. Her 17 year old son was with her and he was not asked anything. Our visa request was denied and we were asked to send a video tape of us communicating. We were also asked to send proof of the residency of our ex-spouses. (Both of us had certified proof of our divorces which occured two years prior to the interview). I made a video of us talking without the knowledge of my fiancee. We speak a mix of broken English and Chinese, and talk on the telephone for an hour almost everyday for the past 1 1/2 year. GZ Perfect Visa put the video on VHS format for us. This is the only format the consulate currently accepts. We reapplied for a date to turn in the material requested, the including proof of residence of ex's. The 19th my fiancee went back to the Consulate and turned in the items. On the 21st she went back and found that the visa was again denied. The tape we turned in, only had audio for the first 30 seconds. We were asked to send in another tape with functioning audio. We were also now asked to turn in additional proof of my employment. I already submitted the required financial packett. I made another tape at my home, and checked the entire 45 minutes on 3 different tape players. I am a retired military pilot and now work as a GS employee on a military base. I had my supervisor sign another letter of employment on official military letterhead, and sent that with the tape, and the last 3 months of pay slips and retirement pay slips to my fiancee. The earlist she can get another date to turn in this material is the 10th of January 2006. She will fly back to Guangzhou to do this. I am hoping there is nothing else we need to do. I flew to Guanzhou on the 4th of December to be with my fiancee for her intial interview. I stayed until the 18th and had to return to work. Don't know what else to do. I am willing to return to Guangzhou, but have been told that will not help in anyway. The VO did not look at any of the supporting documents we had to show our relationship. I had been to China 2 times prior to my trip to Guangzhou. We had 1 year of phone records, 2 years of emails, and many photos. Keeping my fingers crossed for the 12th when we will know if this overcome evidence is sufficient.
