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  2. Chinese Driver's License

    in AOS & Immigration Challenges

    Posted

    Like Jim said, "IT IS NOT VALID".

     

    Quote form the Government of the United States of America:

     

    "An international driver's license must be obtained from your home country. This permit only verifies that you hold a valid license in your home country. It is your foreign driver's license that allows you to drive in the United States. Contact the authorities in your home country to get an international driving permit, as the United States does NOT issue international driver's licenses to foreign visitors."

     

    Since China is not a party of the UN's Convention on Road Traffic (Geneva, 1949) nor the Convention on the Regulation of Inter-American Motor Vehicle Traffic (Washington, D.C., 1943), it is not authorized to issue "International Driver's Permit" and it's driver's licenses are not recognized.

  3. Don't Mess With Texas

    in Culture & Language Discussion

    Posted

    I'll kick in my concerns.

     

    I have a wife who only slowed down because, to her, I was calmer. She still has only the permit (this is how I talk sometimes). She goes up to 80 or 90 then down to 40 and doesn't seem to notice the diference. :headbang: . We've worked on this.

     

    I have worked real hard on her braking earlier so my lower belly will heal from internal brusing from the seat belt. (Never mind everything in the van rushing forward)

     

    I FEAR the result of her having her own car and license. So her inability to land a job, after countless good interviews, doesn't bother me a bit.

     

     

    Now about this story. I for one don't think your wife being Chinese had a damn thing to do with it. He is a State Trooper, and that has EVERYTHING to do with it over a city cop.

     

    I am dreading the day when I have to re-teach my SO how to drive after she gets here. She has a driver's license in China but she doesn't own a car so I don't know what her skill level is but I can only imagine from the experience of her friend driving us around town. During one 10 minutes trip, I counted no less than 5 traffic violations that would have gotten ticketed if it was in the states.

     

    And you are correct. A State Trooper's job "IS" traffic compare to a city cop but getting caught at 20 over the speed limit will pretty much guarantee a ticket by any officer.

  5. Old Green Cards w/o expiration dates...

    in AOS & Immigration Challenges

    Posted

    I just saw this on the USCIS web site. I remember the old GC that I first got in 1988 that has no expiration date. Now the USCIS is proposing to make it mandatory to replace those old ones with new ones that has an expiration date.

     

    Is there anyone or their love ones here that still has the old style GC? According to USCIS, one can apply for the new card before the implementation date by filing Form I-90.

     

    http://www.uscis.gov/files/pressrelease/I5...entQA082207.pdf

     

    http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01...07/E7-16311.htm

     

  7. Never To Be Seen Again

    in The Middle Kingdom - 中国

    Posted

    The Yangtze or Chang Jiang river at Chongqing

     

    http://jjulian.org/page3/page28/page5/files/page5-1022-full.jpg

     

     

     

    That looks about like my SO's home towm, Jinan. I have visited her 6 times for a couple of weeks each time and never once I saw blue sky there...... well, once when we were on the summit of Taishan which is at a litter over 3000ft.

  12. Perfect tool for the kitchen.

    in Culture & Language Discussion

    Posted

    That is a funny clip ...

     

    But on the more serious side ... we bought a Cuisinart Duet a couple of months ago and it's gaining traction in our kitchen. It's a machine with both a blender top and a food processor top. Capacity is not huge, but it does almost anything.

     

    The girls love to make fruit/veggie drinks in the blender part and I'm just starting to get them to really use the food processor. One of the cool things is that it is strong enough to process partially frozen meat. This cuts Lao Po's dumpling production time dramatically. Sometimes we forget to use it but it has great potential ...

     

    Hummmmm...... I will look into that too. What about the Kitchen Aid with the full setup? Has anyone used it? Seems quite pricy to me!

  13. Perfect tool for the kitchen.

    in Culture & Language Discussion

    Posted · Edited by toy_rn65 (see edit history)

    During my last trip visiting my SO in China, I bought a blender while I was there. It did what I wanted it to do which was making some dessert and some smoothies but it was kind of weak and took a while to get everything blended. Now she is telling me that she is using it for almost everything she cooks and she asks if she can get one when she gets here.

     

    Well, after coming back, I start looking for a better one and...... :D

     

    Here is what I found and it will handle anything you throw at it.

  15. Translation of Chinese Driver License and Driving Record

    in AOS & Immigration Challenges

    Posted

    Just beware that there is so much false information, rumor and gossiping going on in "001" it's not even funny. Trust me, I read the posts there all the time.

     

    I don't know if a Chinese driver's license would help any as far as getting her insured here in the states. I will let others who had experiences in this area to fill in.

     

    As for our SOs getting their new driver's license, I don't think the Chinese one helps at all. They still have to start from the written test and the driving permit just like any teenagers here. The only foreign driver's license that I know would help any is a Canadian Driver's license. It would allow you to skip the written test and go straight for the driving test. At least that was the case for me back in 1984 in California. All I had to show DMV was my British passport (issued in HK) and my Canadian driver's license. I got my temp license after the road test and the regular one was in the mail a couple weeks later. Every states is different and the law might have been changed but I highly doubt that.

  17. Our overcome appointment

    in Consulate Process: P-3 ~ Interview

    Posted

    wow so it sounds like her job is more important then coming to the US. :draw:

     

    I really don't think she would put her job ahead of coming to the US to be with her husband. Consider an overcome is not a gurantee to get the visa, I think it would be wise to wait until she has the visa in hand before quiting her job unless money is no object in her case.

     

    I agree with LeeFisher that having someone she trust to deliver the material can be an option.

  19. Cops!

    in Culture & Language Discussion

    Posted

    Not to be redundant, I told this story before, but it fits here.

     

    About a year and a half ago my 80 odd year old Chinese father was beat almost to death by three drunks. To this day, he continues to have headaches. But, no bones were broken. This was the criteria used by the ¡°superior Chinese police¡± to justify not getting involved with the pursuit, apprehension or arrest of the perpetrators. In other words, not a damn thing was done.

     

    Two weeks ago my 16 year old son was jumped, beat, threatened with a knife and robbed by a gang of 6 other kids. He¡¯s pretty freaked out, but not really hurt. The police [sic] wouldn¡¯t do anything! This was not the first time this happened in the same school zone.

     

    Now, you tell me that this is the way it would be handled in the States? I don¡¯t think so.

     

    You wanna bitch about traffic tickets, or that it is a ¡®money racket¡¯? Well, maybe it is, but if you consider the gross under funding of social programs and the incalculable amount of money earmarked for, let¡¯s just say numerous involvements and funding in and for other countries, you just might be able to see what¡¯s really going on.

     

    There were several felonies commited on each of the incidents that you have mentioned. I guess that was what one of the member meant by "Chinese cops don't sweat the small stuff".

  24. Cops!

    in Culture & Language Discussion

    Posted · Edited by toy_rn65 (see edit history)

    Police in China are perhaps 1000% better than police in the United States. They are polite, they are helpful, they don't sweat the little stuff. They've never heard of John Wayne, have no complex's. Don't fear their own citizen's. They don't need 3 cars to make a traffic stop. They aren't armed to the teeth and scared so s**tless of the public that they feel the need to use them.

     

    Most importantly, Chinese cops are on the street where they might actually be helpful. They don't see themselves as secondary collectors of taxes that politician's don't have the guts to collect. Whereas American police either can't be found or 90% of them are in speed traps desperately trying to collect traffic fines to supplement taxes.

     

    I have never felt a twinge of dread with Chinese police, even when they have occassionally waived me over on my scooter to point out some inadvertant infraction. They've never tried to ticket me either.

     

    On the other hand, the Police in San Diego and most of Southern CA are feared by the citizens and shoot people at an alarming rate I never saw even in the violence of the projects in Chicago.

     

    American police need to get over themselves. And if they feel they have to wear body armor 24/7, maybe they ought to look at themselves as the cause.

     

     

     

    With this kind of attitude, I would be surprised if you didn't get a ticket when you get pulled over for a traffic infraction. Are you saying the police should not do anything when a law is broken by not sweating the little stuff? And why would you expect not to be ticketed for commiting a traffic infraction, even inadvertently? That is ground for citing you unattentive or careless driving. 3 cars to make a traffic stop, sure. How do you know the car he has just stopped wasn't associated with someone with a warrent? American cops aren't armed to the teeth and scared so s**tless of the public that they feel the need to use them. They are arm to the teeth just to level the playing field. You wouldn't bring a knife to a gun fight, would you? Since over 80% of our population drive ourself to whereever we need to go, I would say the most effiective way to patrol is by car, let alone that improves the respond time. Try to call for police in China and watch how long it take them to show up. Responding to a crime is very different than responding to a fire. More than not the fire would still be burning by the time the engines got there but a crime has already been commited by the time the officer get the call from dispatch.

     

    And obviously you haven't seen the "other" side of police business in China!

  25. Protecting The Kitchen Sink

    in Links & Resources

    Posted

    While I agree with all that was said regarding the "kitchen sink", but what about the many times "it" was left in the hotel room in GUZ unattended during the trip for the interview?

     

    I am sure none of us want to lug that "thing" around when we are out for meals, medical exams, shopping, etc.

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