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Pink Jing was only asked a few questions... When did we meet? Where do I work? How many times had I visited China? Then the officer wanted to see some pictures and it was over. Finally I can sleep peacefully at night XD Quick question about the next step (hopefully it's ok if I ask here). We plan to enter the USA through San Fran. Since she'll have a K1 Visa and I'm an American citizen, will she have to go through the Visitor/Visa holder line while I go through the American Citizen line... or can she go through the American Citizen line with me? Obviously she isn't a citizen nor on an immigrant visa... but since we are traveling together :/ I'd preder to go through customs in the same line with her in case the officer has any questions she can't answer or has difficulty answering. Anyone have any experience with this?

July 16th here.

My T-Mobile phone (samsung trace) worked great in Xiamen, Fuzhou, and Hong Kong earlier this month. I had even better reception in most places than my fiance with her Chinese phone/sim card. 2.99 USD a min in China. 3.99 USD a min in HK. 0.20 USD to send texts anywhere. Free to receive texts. A little expensive... but it worked hassle free so I can't really complain. Calling China from America is 0.18 USD to Chinese cellphones and like 0.07 USD to landlines. I use skype when I can... but it isn't always convenient.

Flew into Xiamen on July 4th. A lady came on and scanned everyone's forehead and then let us all depart the plane. Once in the airport the health desks before immigration were actually staffed and they were checking everyone's temperature again. I had a head rush coming into the airport and just knew I was going to fail (even tho I was by no means sick). I failed the temperature test and was sent to a side area where a bunch of people were already sitting. They put a thermometer in my arm pit and had me sit for 5 min. While I was sitting I watched several other people fail this test. I overheard the doctors(?) say something about needing to take pictures of their throats and they were escorted to some other room. I passed the arm pit temperature and was able to exit the airport with no further complications. --- Went to Hong Kong for 5 days after being in Xiamen for 2 weeks. There didn't seem to be any new health measures being done in Hong Kong. Just the usual walk past the infrared scanner machine. Although the announcements in the Hong Kong airport about H1N1 reminded me of the Resident Evil movie...