Ant & Lu

Sorry I am a bit late for this, too busy after my visa was approved... I've never been to Hong kong and I don't have that particular HK "passport", the people in the consulate didn't ask since I don't have one. But I would bring it if I have one. Hope my answer helps somebody.

totally agree with the first one, the same shoes my husband got from he states worn out much faster because he didn't get to do that much walking back homeas he does now here in China

I wore orange BEBE shirt and tight blue jeans on my interview day.

I think they make the visa valid starting with the date when you take your medical exams. My visa is only good for 5 and half month because I got my checkups 2 weeks before the interview. I have a similar situation as yours, I have contacted the GUZ office, they suggest me returning my visa and the packet. I will need to apply again in GZ since they will retain all our documents there when we are ready. We might stay in China for another year or so. I don't know if this info helps.

Congratulations

to jingjing, you will get that pink!! My best wishes for you!!

wow congratulations and happy birthday!! Yah

it's on now, am watching it Questions are expo, Nobel peace prize, Internet use, Taiwan buying weapons and Afghanistan terrorism related. Too bad the only channel that is broadcasting this has the interpretor voice high and its hard to hear it eitherin Chinese or in English

http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/guangzhou/iv/email.html From what I experienced, I sent them one email regarding my 2 missed calls from them on a Friday and I got their reply on the following Monday. I am sure their mailbox must be packed with emails everyday. But they answered some respective emails pretty quickly. This is just a guess. In this case I would agree with resending P3 and hope you two hear good news soon! Best wishes!!

Hi Kyle, I am very glad that my experience will do any help to jingjing's interview. And it's very nice to make friends with you two. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask me I would also be very willing to help others here on CFL as you guys helped me a lot when I was doing my visa stuff. Regards Kat

Hi everyone, I was doing an IR-1 visa in China. I just finished my interview in Guangzhou a week ago and picked up my visa 3 days after. Here I am writing down what happened on the interview day FYI. We booked our room with the Yang's. They were very hospitable people and they gave us a 3 bedroom set all private. On the interview day, I went downstairs waiting in line around 7 am. I didn't bring any electronic stuff with me, so it's really fast for me to go through the security check. My appointment letter was taken by the consulate employee. I was sitting there checking all my documents and did a slight re-organization of the paper. I put all paper that's going to be taken away all together. Soon afterwards my name was called to hand in my docs at window #25. It's a very nice young Chinese girl. She checked my passport, took away the copy of the bio passport page, I-864, 3 years of 1040 forms, medical report, new DS-230 PART-I (I did a minor change on the form and I was asked to sign it) and 2 visa photos. Then I was asked if I ever traveled to the States and what did we do, am I CCP and have I ever been to HongKong or Macau? Then I was required to go to window #16 to pay the IV fee. After all of that, I should come back and give her the receipt. I made a mistake after I paid the fee. I went back to window #27 and I waited there for a long time but nobody showed up. Until it required everyone to go back to their seat and the oath started. I remained in my seat and soon after I was called to go to window #30 to hand in the receipt. I was very nervous at that moment. One of the employees helped instruct on me how to do the fingerprint. That's no problem! Then it came the long waiting for the final interview. My interview came around 11 am. Here is the detail: Me: Ni Hao! (The VO looked up at me for 1 sec and went back to looking at my paper) VO: Is this the person who petitioned you? Me: Yes, XXX (I said my husband's name) VO: I noticed you have a baby, have you ever done any DNA test? Me: Nope, but I have all her birth certificates. Do you wanna take a look? VO: No, maybe later. How did you two meet? Me: XXXXXX (I answered in details as what exact date, what we did and everyone who's involved in the meeting) VO: Do you have any photos? Me: Yes (VO was flipping thru the photos) VO: Did your parents attend your wedding? Me: Yes, XXXXXX VO: Did his parents attend? Me: No. (and I explained why) VO: What does your husband do? Me: XXXXXX VO: Did you have other boyfriend before meeting your husband? Me: Huh? Yes, XXXXXX (That's a tricky question) VO: In which year? Me: XXXXXX VO: How much money does your husband make? Me: XXXXXX (I answered without hesitation, then he immediately wrote something down on some paper) VO: Is your baby healthy? Me: Yes, of course. (Then I tried to show him her health records, he didn't want them) VO: What does your husband do again? Me: XXXXXX VO: What's your job before you are a housewife? Me: XXXXXX VO: You are approved. Have a nice trip! Me: Thank you, Have a nice day! The whole interview took about 5 mins. A lot of questions, but the confidence wins everything. I hope my experience useful for other people going thru the visa stuff.

Some found it necessary to go. But in my case, the VO not even looked at my husband's passport nor my daughter's.

this might be off topic, just for your information. I make a written list of everything I took to the interview and use colorful stickers for each pile of docs. It really helped when I handed over my docs to the Chinese staff.

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