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got you. THANKS, i'll give it a try.

Thanks for your reply. It sounds like overstaying is not even a choice. I didn't know it's so strict. Trasit in and out of china is not an option for me. My condition is actually about my baby who is 3 month old. Her visa is 30 day stay each visit. My husband's visa is 60 day stay. I'm on greencard so I have my chinese passport therefore i stay as long as I want to. The problem is that I want to let my baby stay in China with my parents for about 11 month or so, me and my husband will be back to the states shortly after we visit. ps, anybody survived from an overstaying? anybody extended a visa for a baby? i really need some help. thank YOU.

hello, I wonder how do I extend my chinese tourist visa once I'm in China? I got 1-year-multi entri-visa however it notes that for each visit I can only stay for 30 days. I need to stay much longer than that. If I overstay ,will anybody find out easily? Will the overstay have very bad impact on my next visa application in the future? Of course, I'd love to extend my visa in a legal way there if it's not too much hassle. Can I ask for a longer stay at the custom? I also heard that once I get to China, I need to go to the local police department to register for the stay, is it a must? any tips? thanks a lot.

thank you very much

Yes, in the previous post, I got response for not worring. But also, I was suggested to wait for the further letter they might send to me. HOwever, I haven't receive anything from them for 8 month, that's why I start to worry again. Maybe I should stop waiting and contact them to weed out the possible problem. by the way, are those girls in your avator your daughter? they are very adorable. me and my husband just had our fist baby girl 2 month ago. best.

Yes. I believe with greencard I can work without an actually work premit. However, since I sent in the application and they, at least, need to close the case in a notified way. in the mail, they did not say that since you have a greencard already, thus you don't need to be issued a workpremit. After all, they are two seperated applications.

Hey everyone, It might be a problem or might not be one, but I'm still worried. The story is this, I came to the states with k1 and received my 2 yrs greencard in about 2 month after we applied for it, so it was pretty fast. When we applied for greencard we also applied i-765 which is the work premit. The problem is that the greencard came so fast and early I didn't get any approval for work premit before that. Then I received my gc in mail. After a month or so , we got 2 same mails stating that : " After review, we have reopend the above applicatiob ( namely, i765, application for employment authorization), or reconsidered the decision previously issued. you will receive a notice under separarte cover once all action has been completed. By now, it's been almost 8 month after receiving that mail. I haven't heard anything thing from them since. I start to worry, what would be the problem? I didn't receive any other letters regarding my greencard,tho. Does that mean my work premit was not approved? Does it have anything to do with my issued greencard at all? Anyone had the same experience or anyone knows anything about thnis issue? Please advise. Thanks alot.

Thanks for replying. But I went to Beijing consulate's website, there is no info for me to tell which cities or provinces belong to their range. My guess is Beijing is where my parents shall go to, because I remember when I applied the visa to Canada years ago I had my interview in Beijing, so I assume it works the same for US consulate, Beijing is the one. Just wanna make sure.

I did some research. It seems that different consulate has different rules of the processing of the visa. For Beijing, they want you to apply online? Chengdu consulate seems more straight forward. My parents live in Xi'an, Shaan'xi province, I wonder do they have to have the interview in Beijing or they can choose to go to Chengdu consulate. It's very confusing. thanks for any info.

thanks for your info.

by the way, there are several cities in China offer the visa interview, such as, beijing, guangzhou, chendu, shanghai,shenyan...I wonder which one is the one our parents supposed to go to? Do we ask for an interview date after sending in the documents or the consulate office set a date themeselves for the applicants? when apply, except the required forms and fees. Do we need to send in all the support documents, such as, parents' banking statement, property certificate, etc? Or we just send the forms and leave the evidence for interview only? Hope somebody can give me some advice. thank you very much.

So this visitor visa for parents takes only about 1 month to be approved ? We've been married only for 5 month till now but we are expecting a baby in Jan. We want to have my mom come to help during the time for only couple of month. We are not rich, but my husband's salary is not that bad. I'm not currently working. My mom in China has retired for years, doesn't have extra work. My father retired from the government oo, but he's currently having another managment job in a private company. They are both at their mid 50's. I have one sister still going to college there. If we only apply the visa for my mom, do you think it is positive for us to expect an approval? I haven't done many research on this one yet, just want to know the odds. Thanks for any advice.

BY the way, at the AOS interview for the 2 yr GC, after you pass the interview, the officer stamped something as a gc on ur passport then took away the I-94, right? he took mine.

Thanks a lot for your reply. Too bad, we wasted the money on EAD. I can see that you ane I have a very similar timeline, hope you get your aos interview soon too,. Oh no, actually, I wish you get the greencard without a interview,hehe.

Is I-797C the AOS interview appointment letter? ( it says on the letter, this will be the initial interview, is this the one ? ) We received the letter yesterday and I didn't expect the interview so soon. I will have the biometrics on 16th June and the interview for AOS is on 26th June. It took only about 2 months to get the interview after we applied, is this the normal speed? I hope nothing is wrong. How long after interview can we receive greencard normally? After I get the greencard if I want to travel out of the states, let's say, only for a short time, no more than 2 months, will I still need to apply AP ( re-entry premit) ? Will I have trouble coming back without the AP?

Thanks a lot. You cleared my mind.

I'm getting confused about this moving delays. Dose that mean during the applying for aos you are not supposed to move or change your address? We've filed for AOS already, sent the application out like nearly 2 weeks ago. BY far, we haven't received any reply or notice letter from them. The problem is, on the forms we used the address which we had used when we apply for k1 visa. And that's my husband's mother's address, of course he lived/ live there too. But since I came to the states, we also found a new place to live in, when we got married, we used our new address, so this new address is stated on our marriage certificate. Now my concern is that will the two different address have any bad effect on this AOS process later on? Thanks.

I got my vaccination shots couple of days ago since I didn't have it in China. The civil surgeon only gave me 2 shots which are MMR AND TD, but for Varicella , he said if I had the disease when I was little already, it is not necessary to take the shot now. When I read this thread I noticed that someone mentioned about Hapatitis B, is it required for K1? the doctor didn't mention that shot. By the way, the dr gave me an orange colored file evenlope after I had done the shots and I don't really know what's inside. Is that what it looks like for the AOS?

I see! Thanks for your help.

I can't find any number on the back of the 1-94. is that a problem? Yea, I found the number you mentioned on the approval letter. And the valid time has already expired, as we known, it's for 4 months only. So what do I do on the G 325 A form? Do I write "None" on the file number or I just put in the A number on my approval letter. On the very bottom of that form, I noticed there is another blank asks for A number, it's the same number as the file number asked on item # 5 on G-325A,right? Just wanna make sure. Thanks a lot

Hi, We're still working on the paper works on AOS. On G 325A Biographic forms ( 4 pages ), item # 5 on the very beginning line says File Number, A - something. What number am I suppose to fill in? Is it A number? I dunno what file number they are asking for. Thx!

Thanks for your advice. My husband seemed pissed off cause he's been calling those surgoen on the list and nobody takes the insurance. I told him what we need might be from family doctors first, the free shots, so we can make use of the insurance, and only have civil surgoen to sign. But he dosen't seem to get me, all he told me was he kept calling without fruit. I'm not frustrated because of this freaking shots issue, I'm kind of frustrated because he seemed pissed off just because of finding a better solution. I'm very disappointed about this. I've been trying my best to solve this, even if what I'm trying to do is useless. Anyways, thanks for all your advise and help. I care less about this now, whatever happens happen, maybe I should never care about findind a better way, SMILE.

Ok, my honey is telling me that he called so many numbers on that list and nobody takes insurance. So if we want some free shots, where do we find them? where to find those local clinics who offer free vaccination shots?

yea, I knew only the civil surgoen has the right to transfer it into what we need for AOS. What I'm trying to do now is to either find a surgoen who would accept insurance pay ( which is very tough to find, all the surgoens I called do not take that. ), or I'm finding some free shots at family doctor, who will take the pay from insurance company, and then I will take the vaccination result to a civil surgoen just to have him sign it and transfer it into I-693 for AOS, therefore they will not be able to charge me for the shots but only for the signing for a i-639, which costs , i dunno how much, but I believe it's much cheaper than having shots without insurance cover and pay them by cash. Dose this make sense, will this work?? MANY thxxx

Yea, I called my insurance company, they seemed refuse to take the pay for the vaccination. And by far, all the civil surgoen i called don't take insurance either. I live in san jose, california, if anybody ever had a doctor around here who would take insurance, please let me know. Would it be possible that we find a family doctor to give us the shots ( for non-immigration purpose), so the insurance company would take the pay?? And then we will have a civil surgoen to just sign the worksheet for the shots and transfer it into i-693? cause it seems that insurance company is not willing to take the pay only because it's for immigration purpose. any advise? thanks!