Don

I planned for the worse. I planed to be here two mondays so i could return to ACH if needed. Now I will. Ping is the big problem. Does she stay after fingerprint or return home. How fast will they decide? I assume this has something to do with her name? Maybe it could be due to my job, I worked with some materials and technologies banned for export to China. Many others work with these materials, it is not like i am alone in this. Many high tech things are banned for export to china. Will she have to fly back to GUZ to pick up visa? This causes many problems. If they knew they wanted her fingerprints why not ask her to do it Tuesday at interview.

We went to pick up the visa today and instead got a letter asking for Ping to return Monday to Wednesday to get fingerprinted for an extra $85.00. Today is thursday, so we must wait till next week. Anyone else have this happen? How long will it take to clear after fingerprinting? Just her or her daughter also? Her daughter is only 15. thanks for any info. Don

Wow it is coming up fast. Great luck.

Hi Vinny, I just had my interveiw and one woman from Fuzhou got pink and she did her interview in Chinese. Only english was to to say hi and to ask the VO to speak slowly. (if you read Zach post, she was "Phil's the Tiger" fiance)

I want to say great planing and with such flawless execution ACH seems to help, 4 of us there and 4 of us with Pink. Have fun in VA. Applcation to Interview to overcome appt all faster than most of us make it just to the interview. Good Luck, Don

Great work, have a good night. I know you are probably sleeping about now. We could not sleep the night before and slept most of the afternoon after we got pink. I like the Xinjiang resturant around back of the consulate. Plus, you need a new picture for your avatar. You and Sunshine are both younger than i thought from the picture. Good luck and have a great week.

We can not wait to join the outings as a couple. I still can not belive how much she spoke in such short of time. She explained my old job adn what i did in taiwan, than she explain my new job and what i do in CA. She also explained where my kids live and how we met and i met her family and how we did a joint vacation with her family. Many many things.

I asked Ping, and she said that too much discussion. K1 or K3 both done deal, marriage in hand. Lao Po and Lao Gong okay. Old lady is more correctly called Lao Po Po, and old man is Lao Gong Gong. She said Lao Po is made trendy in china today thru Hong Kong TV. Plus, many of the others words we have seen here in this post are regional dialects or regional favorites.

THanks, and i wish you both all the best tomarrow. I think Sunshine will do great. I enjoyed meeting you both.

Hi, just want to tell everyone that Ping and I got our visa. She will follow right before thanksgiving. We lined up around 7 after a very American breakfast at Mc Donald's and 7 eleven. We thought it might help . I went and waited at the coffee shop with Phillip (a person soon to join CFL after Zachery requited him on the over night bus, Fuzhou express). ILS, Zachary and i all met at the ACH. We waited till about 10:30 and Phillip's Ming came down with Pink. Than Ping and her daughter came down about 11:30 with their Pinks. They asked her many questions(main questions with many side questions), but she spoke fast so only about 5 minutes interview. 1. how did you meet? 2. How many times? 3. First time, how long? 4. How did you talk? Show picture of us talking on Skype (VO smiled). Showed emails (I clipped a selection into word from each period of our relationship. 5. Why did Don go to Taiwan so much? (He looked at my passport she had given him). 6. Did you know about Don's ex? Why they divorce? 7. You are approved!!!! She showed the VO my statement of relationship, our pictures, my taxes, my W-2; my work letter I-134, my passport, copies of my driver license, medical cards; trip receipts. He just glanced at most of it. But they forgot to get her passports, so we went back and had the guard call up and arrange for her to go to a window to drop them off. She spoke quickly, clearly, without any pauses and made the VO laugh and smile several times. All of this in only 5 minutes, maybe we should move to NY. This was the first time the VO smiled and laughed all morning. Now you now another reason I love this woman. Thanks to all of you for your help, now we start the next phase. Cleaning the house before she arrives. If you want to call me.

Ping, really wants to do something. We are not sure yet what will work out best. She has done trading and customs agent in china. Plus, she managed a coffee & tea shop. She also did some marketing and training for a hotel. English teacher in high school. We are close to long beach port, so maybe something there. What will work out best for her? She has also been training for Taichi, so maybe teach that. We do not know yet, what to do? She will not come over till mid november. We will see than. She can read and write english fairly well.

For us it was fairly fast. June 10(left NVC) to July 27th(recieved the p3).

As long as you/she are confident about you covering her in the future, cash out now if you can. You never know what complications may arise later (paperwork etc..) Money in hand now is much better than a gamble in the future. Let her keep the cash out in her own account, either in a passbook account C/D in China, or in the US (she thenknows no matter what, she has some money in the future**security**). maybe after she sees my slovenly ways, she will run. Our rule is Chinese money stays in china and American money is spent in America.

It does seem that rules and laws keep changing and it is hard to keep caught up. I wonder if she should keep the pension or just cash out?

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=92521 Notice the parts in BOLD How can a person file I-130 for a spouse without a marriage cert? I think you can start with the new visa 1 year multiply entry. You need and invite, one from you fiance should be okay. you will have to go to hong kong every so many days(60 or 90 i am not sure) to renew the visa. Once in china you might be able to convert it to a working permit. I think to start the marriage visa you must be married, if you marry while on a K1 than you must start over. Don

In this and every other situation, as in buying property - the government says you can own it for 70 years but if and when they want to tear down the building you're shit out of luck. I know, they are doing this with a building where I have a shop. I think all the USC's who want to retire here need to heed these words of wisdom. The PRC does what it wants, when it wants, to whomever it wants and say whatever it wants to maintain its status quo. It ain't what you think it is here. I am not China Bashing Her father will feel so much if she keeps this. This is more an offering to her parents. Plus, we have several houses now and do intend to live here part time after we retire. Using her families huko we can get homes in different areas. One house is close to the Panda center(I shaved so I do not look like the Icon anyore) Plus, brand new buildings so 70 years is just fine. She has brothers and sisters, a large sichuan family. medical is nice and good to keep active. I will have my work retirment, much more than what we would get from her work, but every bit will help and always good to keep your fingers in many pies. Maybe we can be consultants to her work. Who knows best to keep things friendly and good.

sounds like a plan, i will also be there so you will have a few of us for tactical support and diversions.

Only the beneficiary in china needs the translated certificate. Another trip to nortary and another letter from their work and probable a trip to the city or region government. Plus, the order is important, but not always the same.

As you all know, things in china are not always clear. My SO has worked in various jobs, but all companies owned by government. She is still young, but due to strange things in Chinese school system, she has worked for about 20 years and in past years could retire. Now things are not so easy, but still might qualify to cash out some money from the fund. Anyone dealt with this, it seems to completely dependent upon who you know and what they can do for you? Maybe can pay into fund and keep coverage?

I doubt net nanny will help much for chinese sites. One of the main functions of net nanny is to restrict the sites you can visit, they use a blacklist. The blacklist probably is not very good for chinese sites. I think you should go with a big security suite like Norton or Zonealarm. You can buy these suites for 2 or 3 computer installations and most now include the capability for you to control settings from one master computer. You can turn up the settings and control some of them from you machine. Thus, they can not turn down the controls. Many kids hate the questions from the software, so they turn them off. Of course the questions are important since they are detecting bad behanvoir from a program. You should enforce good computer safety, but not try to control every detail. Like put locks ont he door, but do not try to determine every book she reads. After she looses everything, mabye she will listen. Plus, make her learn how to do some of the fixing. Just keep an install disk for the operating system and do a fresh install everytime.

Congratulations, thanks for the info.

Who are "THEY?" Change is unique with no two people on earth confronting and dealing with it in the same way. To attribute cultural adjustment to a whole culture is not only unfair, but inaccurate. My meaning is: Change is an accepted historical and philosophical truism; it is not necessarily jumped ship to psychological tendency like here in the US. Although, I'm not talking about cultural adjustment here... just life in one's own culture.. but I would say that what each person holds as true in their own culture, they will [at least at first] live as if that were true anywhere else.. over time, things 'change'... I can agree with this, but just to argue: Modern China is more about neo-Confucianism, not Taoism. Taoism is all about the change and flow of life. Confucianism is the rigid system of responsibility. Today's China does not really speak much about flow or change. Today's china is more about rigid systems.

I have generally agreed with your posts; Our diverse 'melting pot' causes cultural pockets and I think there are still deeply rooted north vs south, or east vs west mentality. I do think the resulting diversification leads to the difficulties in commonality. And I truly agree that we have an overt focus on change, but I would say it is more of a 'forced march' mentality driven by every sector whether political, economic, media & pop culture of each generation. Maybe the reason our psychological underpinnings change so much is because people change so much since society is changing so much. Compared to china, where "change" has been a fundamental truism of nature since the dawn of man; they accept change as inevitable, but historically did not make a psychology of it; it stays in their philosophy. I think we are sort of preselected for change. Most of us are a few or maybe more thana few generations from our ancestors that came to the US. Most of our ancestors came since they wanted some kind of change. Maybe freedom to be jewish or freedom to be an anabaptist. Or maybe to make a better economic life. They all chose to change what they currently had. Many came here to be left alone and live their life without interference. These values are fairly common across the US. They involve change and the desire to be left alone. Many also chose to live a better life than what they left behind. These seem to be common.

The best I can find on defatting peanut skins is by using hexane and leaving them to dry for a certain amount of time. Sounds dangerous to me Why would they need to be defatted? Interesting about the altitude thing. I didn't know this. The best I can tell, my wife says her red blood cell count goes down and she has little or no energy along with bad headaches. How are you doing these days Ski? It's good to hear from you The most common method used in industry would be methylene Chloride or maybe hexane, but it must be controlled and done with good tooling. That is how coffee is decaffeinated and other food processes are done. MC is not good for you, so the process must be tightly controlled. But I do not think you need to process the skins, just use them with no processes. I think the main thing you should consider is peanut mold. Peanut mold is very carcinogen. Man it is a good thing that I quit drinking coffee What other foods use this similar process? Are you talking about peanut "mold" as in "mildew"? Expensive coffee uses a water process instead of the methylene chloride to remove the caffine. Yes, just common mold or mildew. That is why most peanuts in the US are cooked some how. Cooked peanuts will not make mold.