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Randy: Good to know. Thanks, buddy! We'll wait and see how it turns out and then I'll post the outcome. I do agree that you can't feel secure until the cards are in hand ... whenever that may be1

Well, here is an update ... both my wife and step daughter have received their extension letters and notification for biometrics which are scheduled for the end of this month. I am assuming that since they have their appointment letters in hand, that the one I-751 application with one application fee and 2 biometric fees was the proper proceedure to follow. My question is this ... does the issuance of the biometric appointment letter mean that the documention submitted with the I-751 was acceptable to USCIS or is it still possible to get an RFE somewhere along the line AFTER the biometics are taken? When is it safe to assume that an RFE is not forthcoming and that the I-751application was successful ... then just a matter of waiting for it to arrive??

Congratulations! Just sent in my I-751 a few weeks ago. Only had one bank statement mixed in with a boat load of other evidence including 5 letters from individuals attesting to the on-going marriage. Now, after reading about your RFE for the bank account statements, I'm bitting my nails waiting for their reply!

Yo Tsap: I've been up to my neck in aligators! Getting ready to cross swords with the VA again to reenstate 100%! Going in fully loaded this time with a blood sucking lawyer! Getting this whole ROC thing together and filling it with as much purtenant stuff as possible. Your's should be coming up soon ... right? Let me know if I can help you in any way. We still need to get together! In the mean time ... watch your 6 and remember which side faces the enemy. Rich

Thanks again, Dan! I'll let you know how I make out.

As ALWAYS ... Thanks Dan! So go with the 2 biometric fees?

Well, its that time ... time to file for ROC for my wife and step daughter. My step daughter is now 23 years old and came to the United States at the same time as her mother. My wife came on a K-1 and my step daughter as a K-2. My wife and I were married 6 weeks after her arrival. The daughter was 6 months from turning 21 when she arrived in the States with her mother and received her 2 year Green Card before aging out. My question is this ... does my step daughter's age have anything to do with the filing of the I-751? I have my wife's I-751 ready to go. On Part 5 - Information About Your Children, I have listed my step daughter, her Date of Birth, and her "A" number and "Yes" ... Living with me. Do I just file the one I-751 for BOTH my wife and daughter with one submission fee and 2 biometric fees or does my step daughter need her own I-751 with a SECOND submission and biometric fee? Their 2 year Green Cards will expire at the end of June. Any advice would be helpful and very much appreciated.

No problem here! After a year my wife pretty much likes everything I make for her including lasagna, grilled hot dogs & hamburgers, Italian sausage, Campbell soups, fish ... WITHOUT the head, tail and bones, BBQ chicken breasts .... WITHOUT bones(doesn't miss the bones in fish, chicken or beef at all ... "Western ingenuity"!), London Broil, steak, Mexican taco meat and Vermont cheddar cheese to name a few. She loves French bread, salami, ham, potato salad and pizza. Ever see a Chinese woman eat pizza with chopsticks ... you haven't lived! She never complains about the "Western food" at all and says in is "Very fragrant"! The main staple, however, will always remain her Chinese cooking... not a problem with me! Life remains beautiful!

WELL DONE & HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS! Can't wait to hear the rest of the story! Tomorrow is an anniversary of sorts for my lao po, my step daughter and me! They will have been in the U.S.A. for ONE YEAR! I still don't believe it!!! Best of luck to you and your ladies, David!

The name of the "game" is PERSEVERANCE!. NEVER GIVE UP ... NEVER SURRENDER! Ole Tzap is the role model here for patience and endurance. Heed his words and advice and I am sure you will do just fine!! Sometimes it is just the roll of the dice but if you present a rock solid case and follow the guides here and on VJ you will, in all likelihood, come out a winner! Best of luck to you on your journey. Keep your head up and continue to drive forward!

We went through the Adult Education Program in our community (Spotsylvania, Virginia) for a registration fee of only $20 and a work book that cost $20. This is a branch of the community social service programs. At registration they gave each person a brief spoken test for placement within either the beginning, intermediate or advanced level classes. Classes are from 6:00 p.m to 8:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. I found these excellent classes through the local library. It was the best ESL classes I found so you might want to give it a shot with your local community service adult education programs.

Hey Tsap: Be careful of all that laughter! Remember ... the VA is not going to give you any additional disability bennies for hernias caused by laughter ... unless of course ... they are service connected. Be well ... stay happy ... and hope to see you guys soon!

Davy, I feel your hurt. There is nothing worse than getting a blue slip with no questions asked for you to reply to. You always never get to understand what the problem is....they leave you hanging by your balls with no reasoning on why they are doing this to you and your woman. People who get blue slips with questions asked for can't begin to feel the loss and hurt you feel when they don't ask you for anything. There is nothing else I can say but give you empathy. We lived your life for 10 months before they finally gave us a white slip of denial....then they extended the torture by taking 13 more months to even send the case back to the USCIS. Saying hang in there sounds so lame, I am ashamed to even say it...other than I know it is the only thing a couple can do when in this posistion. Congress men and their liasons are totally useless and helpless in this situation, same thing with lawyers...GUZ will stonewall them both and you will find that you have been placed in a totally helpless situation with totally no regard to you and your wife as human beings. It will end. They will dick around and finally make a decision. For us it was a denial. Oh what I would have given to have been denied at the damned interview instead of a freakin' blue slip with nothing else asked for. GUZ was wropng about my wife and I from the get go, USCIS quickly (in three days from the time they finally got the case in their hands until they sent me the reaffirmed letter) reaffirmed our case and sent it back to the consulate. The consulate set up another interview but after 2 damned years of waiting on GUZ we had married 3 months before I got word that GUZ had even sent ourcase back, much less that USCIS had reaffirmed us. the DOS would NEVER tell me, and neither would the consulate even answer over 75 e-mails I sent them asking, the one simple question..."Have you sent our case back to the USCIS?" I have no doubt that you and your woman have done absolutely NOTHING WRONG. You are caught up in yet another witch hunt by idiots. I never said this before, but when my wife called me from the 5th floor of the consulate and said she had gotten a pink slip at her second interview....I ran up to the 5th floor to be with her and our son and I've gotta tell you....Yes, I was overjoyed at our success, but I stood there with those two good people and I had PURE RAW UNMITIGATED HATE for what had been done before to us by GUZ. I literally was torn between sheer joy and feeling like I would PUKE from being on the same floor with those bastards who had so blindly and heartlessly stomped us as flat as they could. And they WERE WRONG from the get go....F--K them and the horse they rode in on. "Did not prove a bona fide relationship at her interview"....my ass. Sorry, that's as nice as I can speak of the leaders of GUZ and the practices they teach their visa officers. People who get the easy pink slips the first time around will never understand what I'm talking about. Yes, four years after the first interview we were treated with respect and a niceness beyond all dreams a person could have. We are safely at home in America with plastic 10 year green cards in hand, but we have seen the devil, smelled his foul breath, and helplessly got drug through years of pure bullshit to get here. I am not dragging this bucket of crap around on my back everyday anymore, but this fine morning seeing your situation again, sure brought up those deeply hidden thoughts I try and keep myself in control of. I never hated or felt the distain towards the North Vietnamese soldiers who shot me down so many times as I feel for GUZ. At least those North Vietnamese had a logical reason for their actions, and they were lead by clear thinking adults. Lame as the words sound right now Davy, "hang in there" NEVER let the bastards win. They hope you will give up and go away. You and that fine woman of yours stand tough buddy....the road may have more pitfalls for you along the way but just keep a laser focus on the fact that one day justice will be served and she will get her visa. tsap seui Phewww....I thought I had all of that out of my system. Once it started it was like a volcano. Tsap: COMPLETELY UNDERSTANDABLE!. As I told you before ... I could have never put up with what you went through in New Jersey AND with GUZ. They would have dragged me down ... kicking and screaming ... into a dark place, over the shattered remains of their fellow colleagues ... never to be heard of again! You fought it! You weathered it ... and now you've won! Don't let them cloud up your present happiness with memories of their inexplicable stupidity!! We're stronger than that ... all of us! And Davy ... remain resolute and strong! And even though it doesn't seem like it now ... you WILL persevere in the end!!

Tsip, stap, pist, past...it's all the same to me Douggie. The last time I was serious was back in 19 and 62...that experience showed me that the main thing is that we all have a good time and laugh a lot as we make our way through this wacky life. I found the name tsap seui inside the decoder ring I got out of a box of Extra Chocolate Kap'n Krunch cereal. After I woke up on the floor from the sugar buzz the cereal gave me, I looked inside my new decoder ring and saw the name. Didn't know what it meant, actually thought it was a coded message from David Bowie's Spyder Men on Mars, but figured it would be a good stage name on Candle. tsap seui Mr. Chop Suie... you and I must gave gone to different grade schools together.. . I had one of them rings too!!!! http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f380/tttted/3d_1_b.jpg You sure you guys are not talking about the Little Orphan Annie decoder rings that you get from sending in your Ovaltine labels???

WELL DONE! GREAT JOB!! NOW START ENJOYING LIFE!!!