Spekkio99

I've been to shanghai many times and always stayed at Home Inn. I would recommend Home Inn, cheap, clean and hassle free.

40 lbs holy crap! thats like dedicating an entire suitcase to it. i prolly wouldn't take that chance, i can't imagine it being that much better than the flour locally...

I just wanted to add a note about a maybe not so new feature of Paypal that I just recently discovered. Paypal can generate random single use credit card numbers. This is extremely useful for online purchases on websites that you don't trust, or to avoid recurring charges on those things that takes 2 seconds to sign up and impossible to cancel. You have to install the paypal plugin, it's under "Products and Services" when you sign in.

No, don't have to pick up luggage in Korea, it gets automatically transfered to China. You do have to go thru security again with your carry on bags tho, i had a bottle of water of my bag that got confiscated during the transfer. Oh yea and if you have any flu like symptoms in Korea or China, you get sent to the hospital and quarantined for a week, so don't get sick! I packed tons of Airborne...

now that is cool... the app is web driven but worth using. wow i just signed up for this on my iphone and it is so freakin' awesome! free to sign up and it dials a local number and routes the call to china for 1 cent per min. thanks timb!

I think you mean Asiana Airlines? I just got back from 2 weeks in China flying with Asiana, and I would recommend them pretty highly. The flight was pretty comfortable, the food was one of the best i've had, and i've taken literally every airline that goes to china. I recommend their steak, it was actually good! and the korean noodle was good too. Everyone gets their personal tv screen, with TONS of movie/music options, they got all the newest movies that hasn't even come out on dvd yet. All the announcements gets broadcast in Korean first and then in sometimes broken english, I've listened to way too much Korean over this long flight. I flew from JFK to Seoul Icheon airport, landed something like 4am local time with the connecting flight to Shanghai at 9:30am, thats a 5 and half hr layover. Icheon is pretty big airport with lots of shops, but unfortunately they didn't open till 7am, so i slept for a while on their big comfy chairs then browsed some shops and ate some food. All the shops took US Dollars which is nice since I don't have any Korean currency.

My fiancee got her Visa approval letter on Sept 23. She was told it can be picked up in 3 to 15 days from the post office. Her mom took another trip to Guangzhou on Oct 5 to pick it up in person. Are you trying to up from the post office or the consulate? the visa is at the post office and it must be picked up by the person who's ID card was left there.

wow this would've been so helpful! my fiancee is from shanghai, went to guangzhou sept 23, passed her interview and had to back to guangzhou again oct 5 just to pick up the visa. this is great news for everyone going forward!

She just said Japanese car, and they were happy with that answer... I don't think the answer matters as long as she doesn't stutter, not like the interviewer would actually know this information... I drive a '03 Lexus ES300 for those who care lol.

Hi, coming out of the shadows for my 1st post here. My fiancee just went to Guangzhou for the interview yesterday and got PINK! I want to thank this website and everyone here for wealth of helpful advise and resources. Quick timeline: We met 4 years ago, got engaged October of last year, I submitted the K-1 application January 21, she got the P3 on July 2, got P4 late August, interview date Sept 23, PINK on 1st try yay! The stuff that we prepared for the interview was enough, but not nearly as extensive as many other people on these forums. I put together 3 neat packets for her: 1) Proof of support including I-134 notarized, bank statement of deposits, employment verification letter including title and salary, added a business card for good measure, and 3 years of tax returns. 2) Proof of residency including utility bills, bank statements, mortgage statements, social security statement, life insurance statement, copy of drivers license, copy of passport, copy of naturalization statement. 3) Proof of relationship including copy of my visa's with entry and exit stamps of my 5 trips to China to visit her over a period of 4 years. Letter decribing how we met and a timeline of what we did on those 5 trips. 30 pages of phone bills highlightning the date, time and duration of all calls to her. 3 photo albums showing our pictures from our various trips, with family members, and engagement dinner. a dvd of recordings from this engagement dinner. Various receipts, plane tickets, movie tickets, park tickets in a little pouch. And she wore her engagement ring to the interview. The interview was scheduled for 7:15am, she went with her mom, was on line at 6:30am, came out little after 11am and called me immediately to tell me the good news. I only spoke to her briefly, but she said the wait was very long and the interview itself took less than 5 mins. They only asked a few seemingly random questions like what kind of car I drive? How many kids she wants to have?? Only material they looked at was flipping thru the photo albums. And then pulled out the pink slip that looks like it was already there all along. I am so excited and nervous at the same time of having to move onto the next phase of lives. I'm sure I'll coming back to this great site for more resources/advice in the future. Thanks! Dennis