ricaltman

In my fiancee's application for a visa, there was a guarantee of support that I signed. Does anyone know what that means if we divorce? It sounds like I'm obligated to support her, but for how long?

Anyone know of a civil surgeon doctor that will transcribe vaccination records to an I-693 by mail cheaply like Dr. Arnold used to?

Call him and ask, many on VJ have used him without an issue. You can send yellow book by priority mail certified if you are nervous, however doing so will add $$. I called Dr. Arnold yesterday and they said he is no longer doing the vaccination reports.

She picked up the visa minutes ago. Her plane ticket to the US is on Teusday.

Thanks to everyone. I 'll check in again when she has her visa in hand.

No, she got her approval letter September 22 and still no visa. I faxed them ten days ago and emailed five days ago and nothing. I checked the EMS website a few minutes ago and the visa has been picked up at the consulate. Finally!!! I hope no more surprises. very pleased for you both, good news Anyone? Does anyone know what the warning not to open the Visa Packet means? Is her passport separate from the Visa Packet in the package from EMS?

Thanks, but I'm still a little skittish. I won't feel safe until she is actually here.

No, she got her approval letter September 22 and still no visa. I faxed them ten days ago and emailed five days ago and nothing. I checked the EMS website a few minutes ago and the visa has been picked up at the consulate. Finally!!! I hope no more surprises.

I don't get it. Maybe rather than take the time to answer me, they processed the visa. I checked the EMS website a few minutes ago and voila! The visa has been picked up at the consulate!!!!!! 29 days after approval.

No, she got her approval letter September 22 and still no visa. I faxed them ten days ago and emailed five days ago and nothing.

Yes, she paid for delivery to the local post office in Guangzhou. The post office has a phone number, which we call every day and there is also a tracking number which we check every day.

I sent them an email from that link four days ago and nothing.

Thanks to all who have answered. Yes, she was to pick it up at the local Guangzhou post office.

On September 22, my fiancee was given her visa approval letter. On the letter it states you can pick up your visa in two days. She was also told this in person by the VO. It has been 26 days. The consulate has not answered my fax or email. Does anyone know what is going on? My fiancee was told a few days after the interview that the Chinese holiday would cause a delay and that there was also a computer/printer problem. Does anyone else have a delay from this time period or does anyone know any details? Ric

Yes, and I'll keep my mouth shut until we have the visa in hand.

It's hard to believe the consulate actually called my fiancee, but they did. They said they were very busy and would get to it after the holiday which ends Oct 6 I think. I've waited two years, so two weeks I can do. So what they mean is they are going on vacation for a week. Yes. I'll followup when I hear more.

It's hard to believe the consulate actually called my fiancee, but they did. They said they were very busy and would get to it after the holiday which ends Oct 6 I think. I've waited two years, so two weeks I can do.

This response is really to everyone who has posted above also. Thanks to all, but things are still a little scetchy. Now, for the bad news. Ah Lai's visa application was approved September 22 at her interview just like we hoped. They give you a pink/red approval letter which says (and they tell you the same thing to your face) that the visa will be delivered to the local post office, which is four blocks away, in two days. Well, it has been 8 days and still no visa. The only way to communicate with the consulate is to fax them, so we did and unbelievably, they responded the next day. They said they were very busy and would get to it in a few weeks. (I will leave out the expletives that would ordinarily go here.) So, now I'll have to go back to the states on the 6th without her and wait for the consulate to do what they say they will do. Which they have a very spotty record of. Probably two more weeks.

If you are reading this, I probably am too late to talk you out of filing for a fiancee visa, so read on. I met a girl on match.com in March 07, and after 6 months online, we met in Beijing. A few months later in November, applied for a K-1 visa. Including a second trip to China, we had everything the consulate says to have, but at her interview date, August 25, 2008, she was denied. No explanation other than "not a bonafide" relationship. The interview officer was a very large black woman. She looked at none of the volumes of evidence we had but focused on the fact that my divorce had been finalized within a week of meeting this Chinese girl and also that my fiancee's English was poor. The woman was unprofessional, arbitrary, argumentative and downright abusive at times. I was not in China for the interview date which I think was a mistake. More on that later. I hired an immigration attorney in Denver named Jay Choi and at that point, chose to use the appeal route described in the US immigration websites. Over the course of a couple of months, he wrote several letters of which none got a response other than the same form letters I had received and a couple of other non-responsive letters, none of which answered any questions. $7,000 down the drain. I then heard about Marc Ellis here on this forum. After a quick consultation with him, I hired him and he recommended forgetting the appeal and immediately re-filing another I-129F. This was good advice. Forget the appeal process, it has been over a year since the denail and I still have not received anything about the appeal process. He is tuned into East Asian immigration in general and the Guangzhou problems specifically. He has great insight and wrote a very good cover letter for my second I-129F. He oversaw all over the paperwork and helped shape the entire package I sent with the I-129F. He had someone who spoke Chinese interview my fiancee at the beginning of my second attempt and also had a Chinese speaking attorney interview and coach her right before the consulate interview. He also had someone well versed in the situation come to our hotel room and organize the mountain of paperwork and evidence into something more presentable and coherant. $1,500. She was granted a visa yesterday. There are several things I attribute the success to: 1. Marc Ellis' help, direction and organization. 2. The second application demonstrates commitment and perseverance. 3. I was in Guangzhou and my fiancee took my passport to the interview, which the visa officer seemed to find important. 4. By this time, I had been to China five times to see my fiancee. 5. My fiancee's English had greatly improved since the first interview. She has been taking an intensive English course for four months, 6-8 hours a day, 7 days a week. Apparently the first interview officer had made a note in my fiancee's file that her English was poor. I'm sure it is possible to be successful with a K-1 on the first attempt without an attorney, but many times it can take two or three years with no guarantee even then. I strongly suggest calling Marc Ellis right away no matter where you are in this process. It's going to greatly improve your chances and is money very well spent. His address on the web is at http://www.marcellislaw.com .

Welcome to the nightmare. My fiancee had the fat black woman also and was denied for her poor English and the fact that my final divorce papers came very close to our meeting online. I flew to Guangzhou and confronted her and she just sat and smiled and at smirked at me. We are going to re-file.

That concerned me. I read somewhere that I could not be at the interview, so I didn't go to Guangzhou. I'll be at the next one.

I am 61, she is 50. I don't know whether that would be considered a big difference or not. Eye of the beholder I suppose. She had been divorced 20 years, myself only 15 months at the time of the interview. My ex and I were separated 15 months before the divorce. The only "proof" I had was the final decree and the intial filing which was about a year before my fiancee met. Finances are not a problem, believe me. I have plenty of secure income and a home that's paid for. The interviewer actually said all of the paperwork was fine. She didn't like the timing of my divorce and our meeting. My fiancee stayed in the interview area and talked to several of the girls applying for the same visa and they were all denied.

Consider yourself lucky. I am organized and detail oriented with more documentation and trips to China than you and was denied. Although I don't have the final word yet on why we were denied, the only negative comment the interviewer had was about the timing of my divorce.

I'm thinking of DCF in Guangzhou. Anyone with experience or can point me to info?

I wouldn't be surprised at 10%. They try hard to deny visas, even if everything is in order. They denied my fiancee because we met for the first time very close to the date of my divorce final decree.