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We had separate applications for my mother and father-in-law but they interviewed together. The VO if told them "congratulations to their daughter".
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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.
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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 ....
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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.
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Thanks! I had found that thread which is very helpful. Thanks for the reply.
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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.
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Yep..take the bus..easy and comfortable.
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You have received a lot of positive feedback in this thread and I hope things go well for you, your husband, and your new baby. One thing I noticed, however, is that you seem to be getting some questionable information from your husband's lawyer. Is he an immigration attorney? Not all lawyers are well-versed in immigration law as it is a very complicated field.
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.
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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.
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You have received a lot of positive feedback in this thread and I hope things go well for you, your husband, and your new baby. One thing I noticed, however, is that you seem to be getting some questionable information from your husband's lawyer. Is he an immigration attorney? Not all lawyers are well-versed in immigration law as it is a very complicated field.
All the more so when you don't follow the requirements and try to circumvent the system
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There is also a difference (maybe not to the guy at the buisness end of a .38,mind you) between corrupt individuals within a system acting illegally and the system itself being designed that way with full force of law behind it.
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.
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please don't be insulted anyone, I'm just nosey....to be BLUNT:
You are older than her, so she will be alone in the USA many years after you transition to the "underworld".
If she is not a "US Citizen" can she continue receiving your social security benifits?
Can she receive medicare and medicade?
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
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That's why several times after work, I told my husband "Your US has no hope". Working at Wal-Mart as a casher, in one year, I obviously feel more and more people are using food stamp & WIC. Do they really need food stamp, I'd say no. I saw a white woman paid with food stamp for purified water and pops only, in total 55.55 dollars. A woman with 5 kids picked up 6 pops from fridge, each 1.48 dollar, while on the shelf, 2 little bottle only cost 1 dollar. A mexian couple paid 311 dollars for food, wine, just a swing cost 109 dollars, and then a wic about 68 dollars for baby fomular. Do they need WIC, I believe NO!I even see both mother and daughter use food stamp. For several times I complainted to my husband the thing people buy with food stamp while we both work and can not offer, people with food stamp buy really nice toys for their kids while I can't buy for my daughter. One day my husband said "my biggest wish is that we can shop like people with food stamp". He is half joking though, it's also half true.
Being a Chinese, I know some chinese are cheating the program. It's not a problem with Chinese, it's with every race, black, white or Mexican. I am glad that both my husband and I agreed that no matter how hard our life is, we'll work hard by ourselves to raise our kids. To us, it's a shame to live on government. I don't know when people here can learn it's a shame to take advantage of it.
Jenny
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.
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Well, they can start by figuring out what to do about their own English-language acronym (GAPP), and the ICP (Internet Content Provider) notice that is required on every Chinese web site.
In the meantime, I'm still trying to figure out what happened to CCTV-9 - it appears to now be a Chinese-language station. The old English-language channel CCTV-9 was renamed to CCTV News, and now can't be found (so far).
Wow. I am glad I am back in the USA. I can't imagine not having CCTV-9 while I was living there.
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Alan,
Nice to see you taking an interest again here --- your posts are always among the most relevant. Agree with the healthy cynicism of others --- and why haven't more wires services followed up? this should be big news. What comes to mind is a French reaction--- in reverse. The French, having lost all empire (and some might say---like me---world respect) retrench their language rules to protect the 'historic' French language. While, apparently, the Mandarins --- on a rocket to world dominance become defensive about their language?? after teaching 50 + million per year public school students English? Doesn't make much sense...
But was at a NY eve party where I encountered a 'nativist' American ---- National Language---English---English Only in public schools----no exceptions. He also made the point that the Chinese were: 'highly nationalistic' My point back: perhaps, but they teach English to their children, while 'patriots' (like yourself), would limit Mandarin to venues outside of public schools. "who cares?" says he: "English is the language of business" --- My reply: "so" do you suppose the Chinese are teaching their children English as a courtesy to Americans?"
You'll enjoy this take on the "rule"..
http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2010/12/chinese_purism
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How do you spell "April Fool's" in Chinese?
Somebody obviously hasn't been to China in the last 2 or 3 decades.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12050067
The Global Times, the BBC, The Economic Times and South China Morning Post reported on the ruling.
"Is this really going to be enforced? While this might seem quite shocking at first, many of these government notices are rarely followed. In April, TV channels were told to ban English acronyms and it never caught on. For now we'll just wait, watch and see what comes of this bright idea."
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How do you spell "April Fool's" in Chinese?
Somebody obviously hasn't been to China in the last 2 or 3 decades.
I agree that is it a strange idea and story but there are a lot of links to it ... it couldn't be another example of the western press "stretching" a story about China.
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Interesting. Now your name and IBM will have to translated in every Chinese language publication to "prevent abuse" of the Chinese language.
Such practices "severely damaged the standard and purity of the Chinese language and disrupted the harmonious and healthy language and cultural environment, causing negative social impacts," --- whoever taught the leaders the word harmonious should be shot.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101222/lf_afp/lifestylechinamedialanguage_20101222170218
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There is also a difference (maybe not to the guy at the buisness end of a .38,mind you) between corrupt individuals within a system acting illegally and the system itself being designed that way with full force of law behind it.
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.
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I love China, I've never felt threatened there. Unlike America though Chinese are not free to express their disagreement with the Government. I have yet to see one picket line in China or anyone protesting any government policy in a public place. Try protesting the one child policy in front of the court house there and see what happens.
Really -- I remember pickets and strikes at Honda auto part maker and other factories in 2010. I remember people protesting against a mayor/corrupted govt. and the province level govt having to step in and remove officials in order to save face. What I saw in China was that any type of civil unrest was addressed and could sometimes results in the general public getting their way. In the USA civil unrest unusually results in jail time or the party in power just telling you that you are too stupid to understand the big picture.
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Very good post, is advisable for most big cities.
Yep indeed. You could strike out Beijing/US Citizens and replace it with French Quarter/Tourists and the article would fit perfectly.
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It is possible because those who take responsibility in this country are marginalized.
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Need to study prior threads, http://candleforlove.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=42423&view=findpost&p=563628I don't see any details here about your case. Without knowing how you guys meet, the actually time you spent together, your backgrounds, and the interview questions and answers there is little to glean as to any 'reason'. Your likely not to get a reason for some time. Others have fallen into this denial and after some more years and time succeeded. But the most important issue is trying to figure out where your relationship has a weakness in GUZ's eyes. Can't help with that without much more info.
The title says it was due to a tax return problem....
No need. Did not realize the OP was re-hashing old posts.
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yes, WTF does GUZ need to see your past mortgage for and why do they even know about it?
Someone is either giving them or telling them too much info or you are getting the wrong info.
Your lady's point may be that you are showing ties to your ex-wife with your name on the mortgage. My question might be; why does she realize this but you don't? (rhetorical).
What are you trying to give GUZ?
This is a new thread and at the sake of trying to research all your past posts, you can either explain what the Interview questions were, the blue slip items and what your thinking to provide... or I don't see responding again.
I don't get the impression that GUZ asked for the house mortgage documentation but rather that his wife suspects his name still being on the note along with his ex-wife, i.e. meaning they still legally own the property jointly, might be part of the reason for the blue slip.
Actually in case of a divorce the court will file a Quit Claim Deed. This will confirm the ownership to one party and absolve the other from being able to make any claims against the property. So the property belongs strictly to his ex.
The bank does not care squat about ownership once it has a signed mortgage. It has a document which says, both parties are responsible to pay. The OP needs to push for the ex to refinance. The bank will never release one party from the mortgage. As Lee stated, the only way for one party to be removed from the mortgage is for the other party to refinance. This should have been pushed for as part of the divorce. It is also very possible the ex can not secure a refinance by herself. This means the OP may not get off the mortgage for some time. This happens all the time, so I would be surprised if GUZ would use this against the OP.
Not all states or courts file the Quit Claim Deed in a divorce case. The OP stated his wife told him it was bad from GUZ viewpoint that his name was still on the bank note and title. From this it would seem the quit claim has not been executed yet. This would be something I think GUZ might be interested in. However, as David said, without more information from the OP it is hatrd to detemine anything about the reason for his denial.
10 Year Green Card finally will arrive soon - no interview needed
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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.