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I sent our daughter's birth certificate, house title, and driver's license that show our names and addresses together. If they need more information than that then F the country and the immigration service. Quite impressive how slow CSC and VSC are working now. I guess the approval of the illegal under-18 immigrant children of illegals has taken the time away from processing of legal immigrants.

We had separate applications for my mother and father-in-law but they interviewed together. The VO if told them "congratulations to their daughter".

My in-laws received their B2 Tourist Visa on the 2nd attempt this past Monday. Basically provided the same information from the 2005 thread linked above. Not sure what was the cause for the first denial several months ago but we got it this time! Maybe it was because their interview was on the first day of work after the Chinese New Year and the VO was in good mood. Who knows.

Thanks for the replies and support. My wife's parents have a second interview set-up in Beijing at the end of this month. If they are rejected this time the wrath of 001 will descend upon me because I have defined the 001 convention and included the upcoming birth of our daughter as one of the reasons we have invited my in-laws to visit us in the USA. We will see what happens. 3.5 years later and still playing fun and games with the Immigration Department ....

All of the numbers in this article cannot be right. We applied for our in-laws in September and were denied. Now were are going through the process again and having trouble even getting an interview scheduled less than 60 days out because they "have been denied before". They are retired, have plenty of money and two homes, and 2 other children/1 grandchild in China to return home to. However I guess the USA government does not need any visitors to spend money or to let the in-laws visit and experience the birth of their second grandchild. When you read this article you get the impression they have opened the gates and letting all of China into the country.

Thanks! I had found that thread which is very helpful. Thanks for the reply.

This is an old thread but we are in the same situation now. My wife is expecting in March 2012. We applied in September for her parents to come and be here for the birth and stay for 6 months. We had all the evidence I have seen listed here (they have 2 children and grandchild in China, own rental property, etc). They were denied. We are planning to have them interview again in January 2012. I was wondering if it would help in the invitation letter to state this time that my wife is expecting and she needs her mother her during the first month as is chinese culture? It would seem that the birth of a child is a reasonable reason for the parents to visit and their is no issue with their connections back to China. In addition my financial situation is such that even if they stayed here we could easily support them.

Yep..take the bus..easy and comfortable.

All the more so when you don't follow the requirements and try to circumvent the system Sorry, guy! I think all they want to do is get married without damaging their immigration chances - that shouldn't be a problem. Marriage, short of bigamy, is not a crime in anyone's book. Since being back in the USA have seen way to many abuses of the whole system that results in the "doubt" cast on those and the wait for those who do it by book. They know what it takes to get a K1 or CR-1 visa. They are more than welcome to get married while on a B-2 visa and have a baby in the USA and be subjected to questions about intent (and then others who follow the correct procedure are also by default subject to same type of doubt because of cases like this one). They also had time to apply using the normal channel for this situation and then wait like the rest of us had to.

Tsap it is great to see things moving along. It took us 3 months to get entered into NVC (because they put the original along with the copies in the archive file at USCIS and gave me the run around until they finally checked and said .. "oops"). Stay after them and best of luck.

All the more so when you don't follow the requirements and try to circumvent the system

I agree. The first thought I had when dealing with Chinese officials relating to operating permits: "Wow this is refreshing...the corrupt guys are upfront and honest about it and tell me exactly what they want without involving middle men and pretending to be honest and fair". That was my experience in the difference between the two govt. Sorry Shenzen, but the subject was people's lives and liberty being threatened, not slipping someone a $50 to get to the front of the line. I am not talking about $50. I am talking about getting environmental and safety operating permits for chemical plants. I never saw people's lives or liberty being threatened in China unless someone threatened the govt. or the stability of the country or critized openly the govt. Sorry but I see us heading down the exact same path and maybe even pulling even already.

No problem. It's easy to explain: We are both 'older' (and hey, I'm only 10 years her senior). My wife worked for 25 years in China before coming to America and has earned a full pension there. She still owns her house in China and she wants to buy a storefront business there for the family to run (which is very doable). If I die before her, likely, if we both go due to natural causes; she will have all of my properties and assets, which are fairly substantial - we are doing well. She has said she would liquidate everything in America and move back to her hometown if I were gone. Given her pension (which has full medical), home, business, and assets from America: She would be very financially comfortable. If she gave up her Chinese citizenship, she would be throwing away her 'safety net'. She said she has no desire to stay in America without me (kind of a sweet thing to say). But that is an interesting question...can a non-US citizen survior spouse get U.S. SS benefits? The SS website states that the surviving spouse needs a SSN and that non U.S. citizens must be in residence to receive benefits. Another website explains it this way: http://www.ehow.com/about_7410755_social-security-benefits-non_citizen-widow.html Also interesting that your ex-spouse (in addition to your current spouse) can get survivor benefits if you were married for more than 10 years. I did not know that. No wonder the system will be underfunded. http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/25/451874/how-social-security-spouse-benefits.html

You are correct. The entitlement program is totally out of hand and everybody is cheating the system. When my wife first started to attend the local community college for ESL classes she was given advice by LPR, people here on visas, nauturalized US citizens and native born US citizens on how to "cheat" the system and get financial aid after she told them she did not think she would qualify because I make too much money. To add insult to injury because we just moved to state from China we are not classified as state residents for tution purposes until after living here for 1 year even though I am working and pay state taxes. However if my wife was here on a visa instead of a Green Card she would be immediately eligible for in-state tution. So basically a working US citizen moving from out of state has to pay out of state tution for a year but a non-working/tax paying foreigner coming to US on a visa can attend college as an in-state student immediately. Not sure I follow the logic in that at all.

Wow. I am glad I am back in the USA. I can't imagine not having CCTV-9 while I was living there.