Ryan H

Information from USCIS that addresses your question: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=3f443a4107083210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=3f443a4107083210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD

The notary office will take your wife's marriage certificate and use it to create the appropriate document. They only need hers.

He would come here on an IR-2 visa.

Congratulations Dan! Well deserved!

I obtained the single status affidavit stateside and the marriage bureau in Wuhan where my wife and I registered for marriage accepted it. One thing though, they did send us to a translator of their choosing to have it translated.

Despite what your approval notice or even an operator might say, no file goes directly to an Embassy or Consulate from USCIS; it always goes via the NVC. This is because a file must be assigned a case number and the only entity that assigns case numbers is the NVC. For K1 cases, the NVC is nothing more than a mail stop, when they receive the file from USCIS, they assign it a case number and sent it to the appropriate Embassy or Consulate; therefore, for K1 cases the NVC usually does not contact the petitioner or beneficiary as their involvement in the case is minimal. Even though you wrote Shanghai on the I-129F form, the file will not be sent there. Interviews for K1 visas are only done at the Consulate in Guangzhou. In your future dealings with the NVC, ask them what the case number for your file is. If you do not get very far with the NVC, try the State Department's visa information helpline at (202) 663-1225. When it connects, you would push 1, then 0 to go be connected to an operator.

Congratulations!

July 10th is the day of intake of documents, the interview itself will occur the following morning (July 11th). Passport with visa is returned via EMS. An EMS waybill is given out at document intake and the completed waybill is returned at the interview.

OP, FWIW, when my wife submitted her police certificate, 8 months had passed since it was issued and it was accepted. As always, YMMV.

Congratulations!

Airlines usually require the name on the ticket match the documentation used to check-in.

I remember 'those' feelings.

Congratulations!

As others have told you, they (the Consulate) will not care.

ICE is an agency you would not be dealing with (AOS or Removing Conditions).

IMO, the very nature of this process lends itself to paranoia, overthinking, and second guessing (I did all 3 at various points going through the visa journey tunnel). You already have received good advice that you are taking to heart. I wish you the best going forward.

Congrats and good luck at the interview!

My wife's approval sheet was on white paper.

My wife received her passport with visa inside back one week after her interview.

Only the beneficiary.

My wife and I like X-Factor better.

If you are about to file an I-130, effective today there are two locations where an I-130 is filed. If you live in Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virgin Islands, Washington, Wyoming; you will file at the Phoenix Lockbox: For U.S. Postal Service (USPS) deliveries: USCIS ATTN: I-130 PO Box 21700 Phoenix, AZ 85036 For Express mail and courier deliveries: USCIS Attn: I-130 1820 E. Skyharbor Circle S Suite 100 Phoenix, AZ 85034 If you live in Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, NorthCarolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, RhodeIsland, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin; you will file at the Chicago Lockbox: For U.S. Postal Service: USCIS P.O. Box 804625 Chicago, IL 60680-4107 For Express mail and courier deliveries: USCIS Attn: I-130 131 South Dearborn-3rd Floor Chicago, IL 60603-5517 Note: If you are living in China AND you are not eligible to file at either of the USCIS field offices in Beijing or Guangzhou, then you will send your paperwork to the Chicago lockbox. Additionally, which lockbox you send your petition to will not determine which service center your file will be routed to for adjudication.

The only time I had any adverse affects of a gastrointestinal nature was the very day I had arrived back home from the trip I took in 2010. The likely source was a chain hotpot place in Beijing my wife (then fiancee) and I went to before going to the airport for me to catch the flight home. However, it's entirely possible the source could have entered my system days earlier and it took it's time before it affected me.

I took an overnight soft sleeper from Beijing to Xi'an. At first, I was wishing I had just taken an airplane. My wife (GF at the time) was not able to travel with me, the other people in the compartment were nice (although they spoke zero English), and I couldn't fall asleep and was thinking I would be awake the whole trip. However, I did eventually get some sleep, and when the trip was finally over, I was glad that I had this experience. This past February, my wife and I took one of the modern high-speed trains from Wuhan to her hometown and then from her hometown to an intermediate destination before we flew back to Beijing. I enjoyed the trip from Wuhan to her hometown, the trip from her hometown was not bad (just a little more crowded).

When is it?