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Good luck to you and yours tsapper. Looks like this long ride is about to come to an end for y'all. Magic 8 ball says... "Your in there like swimwear."

Hi õ¹å²Ý my wife is also from Hunan. Just what this site needs another lovely lady from Hunan Love that Hunan spicy cooking! Not so much the Hunan hot temper.

Compleate copy of passport is recommended by petition instructions if using passport as evidence of US citizenship. You have other evidences of trip to China, (Credit card receipts, ATM receipts, Hotel receipts.....) That's right now I remember. In our case I had 3 trips before marriage and I sent in the I-130. Copies of passport pages with stamps,and visas. Maybe I sorta killed two birds with 28 pages of passport. 3 trips before marriage. What was I thinking? Poor girl is stuck with me now.

Correct me if I am wrong but, when submitting passport stamps as evidence doesn't one need to submit all pages of the passport(even blank ones) and every page notarized? E.G. The following is an unaltered copy of Mr. Dolomite passport. (On every page and notarized at the local bank) Anyways that is what I did and USCIS/NVC/GUZ had no problems.

Hi dj Two things stand out from your post to me. 1: Is there any other type discussion with a Chinese wife? 2: Yes Hell! I wish I could have mine go visit for 4 months. 4 months I could drink beer, smoke in the house, walk inside with my freakin shoes on, eat pizza, burgers everyday. 4 months of no phone calls at work "I needa yoooou do this and this and this and that". "NO BE LAZY MAN!!" Naw heck I love her. Hope the time passes fast for you.

I know I know nothing like being an ass over nothing. I've been thinking the same. I don't want her to grow up a 300lber and can do nothing but cook and clean. For the record she is a great classical pianist and brought Western culture to our home. Go figure that one? It confuses me too. Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Chopin I want to buy her a go-cart and watch her get muddy.

Yeah that's the thing I used "step-daughter and step-dad" so folks would understand that she is Chinese and I am American. She is my daughter too and I have became very proud and fond of her and her Mother. They are like carp, I dragged them here from China and yet the refuse to die and eat everything. I'm just worried about her health and want her to bring her butt OUTSIDE!

My step-daughter is 14 doing okay in school but behind in English. None of her friends live near us, I see no school books or library books at home. She does help clean house and cook for her Mother and I and for the most part is not a brat I would say normal 14 year old teenager.I think bedtime of 10:30 school night is fair 12:00 on weekends, 1 hour piano practice each day. I have set up a basketball goal, we have trails she could hike, we have animals, vegetable garden and flowers. She is happy but will not go outside for nothing very long. She stays on the computer all day and night after 2:00am and often on school night I must threaten to unplug the computer for her to finally go to bed. If she is not on the computer then she will sit and watch Chinese TV all day. She is getting bigger than when she first came here and I am also worried about her diet. We get along fine no fights just normal everyday family stuff and I would say she is a great daughter. I know I am the step-dad talked to the wife about this we agree on this or that and she will not follow up with her daughter.I am no tiger step-dad. Am I out of line? 1: Three hours computer/TV time school night and four on weekends. 2: Bedtime is 10:30pm on school nights and 12:00am on weekends. 3: Must find interest/exercise outside. 4: One hour piano practice each day.

Love it!

Russian spacecraft (CRASH) landed on moon hours before Americans http://www.telegraph...-Americans.html Interesting article about a lost tape of the ill-fated Russian Luna 15 mission, note it crashed on the moon and failed to complete it's mission which was to bring back lunar samples before Apollo 11.

My Condolences to you Tony.

Thats great Tsapper! I guess there will be some fur flying soon.

David11 You forgot LUCKY RABBIT'S FOOT!! Also please be advised to wear PINK underware. Gooda lucky to David and his wife.

Sorry About that David, I must have got lucky. btw I use a small local bank.

Wish I had thought of that. It would of saved us lots of mailing back and forth and what not. Here is a link to form 2848 only to complement David's post. http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f2848.pdf Good info here someone should to make a guide.

M/F ? Oh well better to not go there again. I don't think the mods liked the last one. Yeah Tsapper is everyones Unkie/cuzzin. B) P-2 to come soon Unkie Tsap MF...you know, as in move out my friend. I liked the Massey Ferguson acronym, something about the Mansons set the mods off. My illegitimate, twice removed, unckie/cuzzin Tsapper. Any idea when your wifes P-2 will come around? I thinking soon.

Congrats!

M/F ? Oh well better to not go there again. I don't think the mods liked the last one. Yeah Tsapper is everyones Unkie/cuzzin. B) P-2 to come soon Unkie Tsap

I agee with Charles I mean cuzzin ORD. Had my wife start to sign in pinyin and if asked for alias always used Given, Sur and my Last. Now she is here and signs all things with my last name.

Now you got some thing to do other than cut wood. Sorry if you already read this before cuzzin, but make sure to have some photos of your wife and son together at an early age. This really helped us at our interview and we did not need a DNA test.

An interesting exercise - with all we hear about the hurdles GUZ places in the path of those trying to get visas for family members, we have someone creating his own hurdles. Why are you wanting to do this ??!? Okay TST, Take a deep breath and relax. The last thing you want now is for your anxiety to spill over to your wife. I sure you understand what Randy and others here are telling you (you have a divorce decree that clearly spells out custody to your wife.) TECHNICALLY that should be all GUZ will require, your efforts might stir the ex to contact the Consulate and try and block your petition. e.g. Letter,poison pen.

YOU HAVA DA PROBLEM WITH EAR!

Not really your question but. Make sure you have pictures of your wife and her daughter together from day one ready for the interview. If you have some from the hospital the day the daughter was born that would be good.

Tsapper I'm guessing you got your AOS fee via e-mail in PDF format? Do they still use a bar code with that AOS invoice? Cut and paste Ha ha! I cut that bar code with scissors and pasted to the optin letter with glue. Scanned it and printed it and emailed it to the wife. For us I got an email with 2 PDF files (10/05/2010) one for DS-3032 and another for the AOS fee. I scanned the DS-3032 and letter to optin and emailed it to the wife with the barcode on it. She printed them signed them and scanned them and sent them back to me email. Make sure your wife keeps all originals with her signature safe for the interview. We did this for many forms and worked great for us. Then I saved as PDF and sent them to NVCElectronic@state.gov that same night I paid the AOS fee. Waited 3 or four days got my receipt for AOS and an invoice for the IV fee at the pay site. Some time after that I got an email we were in electronic processing and the GZO number. I stalled on the IV fee for the wife so the daughter's petition could catch up to the wife's then paid both IVs. You might need to do the same for your wife's to catch the son's??? Also when the time comes if they do not send her a P-3 packet don't forget the P-3 supplemental form. It was not in the downloads at NVC because it is specific to GUZ Consulate. Just hand write in the answers in Chinese and English and send it back to them with the rest of your packet. Note: None of this rite cheer is advise only what werked for usins.