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Just to add a little. You most likely do not need the x-rays anymore, but make sure you have them going thru your port of entry (airport). They might ask for them. If they do not, then they are yours to keep.

Wishing you the best!!!!

I have flown Asiana several times over the last few years around Asia (taiwan to Korea, korea to china, Japan to Korea). They have been helpful and nice. They always got me an aisle seat and often in the exit row.

The Chinese stock market is very unpredictable. Many people seems to loose a lot of money. It seems that the market is high manipulated by some group with super user status. The software that links you into the market shows many strange and large trades, that never really appear, they only get booked. What i am saying is that this market is very difficult to watch and you must sure of it every second. Very hard to just invest and wait for trades later. It has very big swings duirng the day and you must time your trades very carefully. Many grants and scholarships require US citizenship, not all but many. Small business grants for woman are not always easy to get, there are some but hard to find. In the business and acedemic world Chinese are not really given any advantage as a minority. So i doubt you will find grants for that. This is all my experience, but hard and fast rules.

When you filed the AOS did you also file for a EAD? Many states will take a EAD card as proof of legal residency. It comes much faster than the green card. I know in CA that you take the EAD, and your passport & SSN to the DMV (plus marriage licence if you changed names) to get the permit or the State ID card.

Monterey Park and Alhambra are the best place to find very good chinese resturant. I would not bother going downtown. I think the MP area is better. I think Irivne (maybe Tusin) has a korean maket called Freshia, if so than that is a great place for fresh produce. I like the produce better and it is often cheaper than Ranch 99. Ranch 99 works well for the basics you need to cook chinese style, but Freshia has it beat for produce.

I got my degrees so I could work. I pick areas that i liked, but also provided good employeement. I am not sure that I feel a degree is just to educate us, i think it should get us ready to work in some occupation. I can and do educate myself on mnay topics, but they are my responsiblity i am not sure I would want to go to schools just to learn a basic background in some clasic area.

We changed her name to mine, she wanted that. It was not hard, but it set the order we filed her paperwork. 1. Marriage 2. SSN # 3. Get SSN#; need marriage license and her passport 4. State ID, need ssn#, marriage license and passport 5. Joint Bank account, needed state id, ssn# 6. Joint Credit cards: needed state id, ssn# and back account info. All of these things require the step before and we found it easier to do in order. The name change did not make it easier or harder, but she wanted to do american style.

Thanks everyone for the congratulations. We took so long for visa because of her name. We did the green card fairly fast. A little slower than others, but not like the visa. She was surprised it was so fast after the visa issues. She seems to understand, so no issues. PLus, she had spoken with other woman at the SoCal get togethers and many took longer, so she was happy with our speed. Those luncheons do help.

Hi Everyone, We had our interview yesterday and got the approval. They gave us a piece of paper with their stamp, but must wait for actual card before we can travel. All they wanted was updated info including 2007 tax forms, I filed before my taxes were done. Plus, they did asked for proof of joint relationship I gave them: 1. Bank account with both names; just a print out of my statement. 2. Scan of credit cards; one with my name and one with her name 3. we just got a car, so we had both names on car That was good enough. Did not want more pictures or anything else. We should get the card within 6 weeks by mail.

We have the same type of deal, but ours is still in the planning stages. The developer has started to set up the deal, but it has not been finalized. We knew when she moved here that it might happen. Part of the advantage is the governement agency that started the whole process. The developers and local officals often do not want to anger the party people that might be part of the old company or government office, so the deal goes thru with good benefits to the current owners. I wonder if the deal did not have government backing or orginal government office behind it how many benefits the current owerns would get. We know our building will do well, since local governemtn office is very strong. She should get top dollar for the place. Plus, the change in ownership should clean up some of the deed issues. the current government offices stills control one part of the deed. We hope to do well and maybe sell her old - new house.

All we provided was: SSN#, CA id card (picture ID with new name) Marriage license. passport for second id with picture

I have known a few Chinese women well enougth to learn their stoires and their stories are strong enough to be made into a movie not too different than the Joy Luck Club. Many did experience these kinds of treatments and some even worse. It is a big country and things did happen especially right before and during the Cultural reveloution. The government tried to split the families and make people dependent on it. This kind of pressure caused many bad things to happen. Some newly with power after so many years with no power chose to abuse this new power and did their evil to many. These things have happend all over the world at various times, even in the US, we have seen such movie made about many places not just china.

I want to add my congratulations to everyone else!!!! Now you can relax a little and have fun.

Conventional wisdom is almost always wrong. Those same pundits that were saying "buy" the Chinese market at 5000+ are the same ones that are saying "sell" now at 2400. The Chinese stock market will have it's ups and downs. As long as the Chinese economy continues to grow at around 10%, the stock market almost has no choice to go up on a long term basis. It doesn't mean we can't go to 1500 over the next few months, but in ten years, there is no question that the Chinese market goes much higher. (unless the Chinese economy turns around, which it is showing no signs of doing) In a fair market you are correct. Many doubt the chinese market is a real and fair market. A few inisiders seems to have very good info, and the fake trades really cause me concern. Have you watched the market? Everyone has thier laptop programs that watch trades and often huge trades show up on the screen, but than 30 min later they do not really get placed. THis causes many people to try and jump in the same direction as the traders, most losing their money. Very bad info is given to most people about the market and they loose a lot of money.

It sounds great enjoy yourself. Quite a list, it will be great a party.

Thanks for the English translation. My wife has sang it a few times, but I did not know what it said.

Congratulations! I think Vermont is a very beautiful state - Cold during winter- but beautiful.

Electrical Engineers that can speak good English and Chinese will do very well. Accounting does very well also, especially with a CPA license. Medical will be good, but not as high of salary as before. Plus, more work. High school teachers might do well, but varies from state to state. Most of the numbers i have seen on college or no college indicate that college degrees really help. Over a lifetime you can make much more with degree. Plus, everyones work and degree changes over time. Often you will not work exactly in the same area as your degree was in.

Congratulations!!!!!

Maybe Hubby can bring yours, and parents US passports. That will show he has met the family.

I used photo paper in the printer and they were fine with it. The quality is quite good.

Congratulations!!!!

I printed our pictures 6 per page. Than she brought about 10 pages and just passed them thru. I added little titles and used Adobe Photoshop elements to organize the selected photos newest to oldest.

Congratulations!!!!!