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Hi Robert, I'm guessing she was/is working at the MeKong Shopping Complex, they recently opened that Foot Spa/Reflexology business. If Hui is really interested the EVIT Tech School on Main St. in Mesa does have a State Accredited Massage Therapy Course in Chinese. In AZ the state has a requirement of 720 Classroom Hours to be Licensed in AZ as an MT. I can attest to this , as my wife has a Foot Spa next to LeeLee's Super Market on Dobson and Warner, she also attending the EVIT Tech School right now, all of our MT's have at least 500 or 600 hours of training from Calif. But she's also a AZ State Licensed Cosmetologist, what we offer is strictly foot massages and facials. There is some serious money as an Massage Therapist, with all the Snow Bird's coming in during the winter time, and up in Scottsdale, but serious this is very hard work. If you want, pop me a PM, maybe we can meeting and you two can meet Lijun and talk. Chris

Did you mean the I-765 Employment Authorization?? Anyway, sounds like it's chuggin' along! Hang in there! Correct EAD Card

Hi All, Well, we lost the case in District Court, do to jurisdiction only, all parties involved, Judge Wake, DHS & us, agreeded that there is no dispute of the facts in the case. IN Judge Wake's pre-draft decision before oral Arguements, he was set to take Jurisdiction, but reversed himself and gave Jurisdiction to the Gov. Just want to update you¡¯ll of the result from our IJ hearing today Mar 24, 2011, with future court dates: Individual Hearing set for Mar 11, 2014. Discovery Motions due to the IJ by: May 5, 2011 ICE response to our Motion due to the IJ by July 8,2011 Next Master Calendar Hearing: Aug 2, 2011 Reason is that the ICE attorney opposes our motion and claims that there is are factual disputes in our case as US District Judge Wake and DHS have already agreed to, she indicated that I could have filed an I-130 and my son and he would have protected under CSPA against the ¡°aged-out¡±, naturally this was a surprise for both my attorney and me to say the least. Seriously, we all know that CSPA belongs to K3¡¯s and K4¡¯s, already married seek to immigrate to the USA. I don¡¯t see her logic here other than to drag this out for as long as possible? Therefore we countered with the courts approval to enter a re-discovery motions to clarify ours and the ICE¡¯s position in this matter. We will file our motions of May 5th, 2011, the Gov. has 60 days to file there cross-motions (which I think is BS) before we appear again on Aug 2, 2011 for Master Calendar #3. The IJ questioned the ICE Attorney if she has read our motion that was filed on 10 Mar 2011 with the court, she stated that she has just seen it, received a copy from our attorney prior to the start of the proceedings today. Our attorney has been trying to contact her since the end of Feb 2011 with no response from opposing council. I don¡¯t think that went over well with the IJ! In fact our attorney and myself could clearly see that the ICE attorney wasn¡¯t prepared, namely with the BS response from above (I-130 and CSPA) and it appeared that the IJ was ready to make a decision today but didn¡¯t? At any rate, we did get the IJ to approve a renewal of the I-485 without fees, should take about 90 to 120 days before everything is completed. A new case is "SESAY - a K1 issue" dated Mar 17, 2011, both Choin and Carpio are referenced in the SESAY: EOIR case decision, but another topic of this case in it¡¯s reading of INA 245 (a and d), so something to keep in the back-pocket is Grushin, which is a EOIR decision based on INA 245, the likely-hood is the Government is going to using anything everything at this point (CYA).

Files I-751 on 22 Jan 2011, recieved notice of BIO appointment letter today with an appointment of 23 Feb 2011.

Gave her my 1996 old Chry, T&C mini-van for protection, plus she sits up a little high than a car for better vision, figuring if she does have an accident she stands a better chance of coming out of it OK. She does drive to work everyday, no problems, just doesn't like driving more than 15 miles, tires her out. AZ written exam taken, 4 x before she passed, RT passed on 1st attempt. She hates to make left-hand turns. Gave her one lesson as she wanted to drive in the middle of the road, told my son, here you teach her LOL, did this because it was easier for him to tell her chinese what she was doing wrong.Our son also took his RT in this vehicle, failed the 1st test and passed the 2nd, told the both of them, if you pass the RT driving this, you'll have not problem with a smaller vehicle in the future.She been stopped twice for drifting, but no tickets.

You have a number of options, 1st is a hand written EOR, 2nd is a typed EOR (sent this to your SO, so she has time to read and understand the EOR), have them notorized at your local bank, tippically free or a mimial charge. 3dr options is to send it GUZ via email, this ensures that GUZ reads and receive it, and they have to acknowledge the email you have sent. By not having an EOR at the time of the interview could cause a Blue Slip, is this the chance you two want to take on your future together? Bassically, I did all 3 options which resulted in Pink, better to be safe than sorry, IMO.

Just an Update about last week. Our US District Court appearance was cancelled at the last minute, the Judge had a case that lasted long than expected. The rescheduled dated is for Aug 16, 2010 @ 10 AM. Seems he has made his decision to deny the Governments Motion to Dismiss the case, we have this in his lead Draft of his pending Order, I won't be happen until I hear coming from his mouth. As for the IJ appearance, the MCH was a little funny in the fact that we admitted to 5 of the 7 facts that USCIS said we were in violation of, defense consul was shocked, that we pre-ask for termination of proceedings, the IJ hs rescheduled us for a new MCH on Mar. 10, 2010., he also wants to know more about the current proceedings once were finished in US District Court, proir to the new MCH. I think the IJ understood, that we beat them to the punch and it's their fault by not starting the action/removal proceedings. Oh well live and learn.

Well, Some movement on our case, the US District Judge here is allowing us the chance of Oral Arguement for our cross motion in reference the MTD, slated for Wednesday, 28 July 10. It appears that he has decided to retain jurisdiction, waiting for clairity from our lawyer. Then on Thursday, we have our date with the IJ, and the Master Calendar Hearing, so a busy week ahead of us.

tsap, Thanks for the kind words, we just want to get on with life, but with this bump in the road has kind of side-tracked us for the moment. Those in the know, are well aware that DHS/ICE/USCIS doesn't have a leg to stand on, they have lost a number of times already in various courts (9th & 10th Cir. A. , US District, and 4x EOIR) but continue to go down a lossing road wasting you and my taxs dollar in the process. I'm aware of 7 cases pending before the BIA and 1 pending case I believe in New Mexico, I haven't heard much on that case. There is a case or two also pending before the EOIR up in Minn. Mich area. Dave one of our members is in the same situation as we are, his EOIR judge has tabled the proceeding until the BIA makes a decision on any of the 7 cases that are pending. There is a small catch with the BIA, if a decision is handed down by a single judge it isn't presidence setting, it has to be a decision from a three judge panel to set presidenced nation-wide. At any rate, keep your fingers crossed for good luck.

Well some interesting new's, we got our EOIR court date for July 29, 2010. We will be in US District Court on Friday Apr. 9, 2010. Should the Court retain jurisdiction, based on the current submitted plan, the target date for a final decision should be on Nov. 10, 2010 For us this, it's USCIS's reaction to the lawsuit we filed in Oct, 2009 with the US District Court, exactly 60 days from the filing, USCIS issued the NTA, with no court date. Now that we have had our little meeting from the Mar 25, 2010. ICE released him on his own recog. They are now taking the matter seriously, we are now hoping the District Court see things in our favor, the US Asst. Attorney has already made one mistake, by filing a late joint discovery plan. Our attorney made her submit her explanation in a motion to the court, how much weight this will have, won't don't know, should be interesting to hear the Judge's opinion.

He has to check-in with ICE every 90 days, the next check-in date is 7 July 2010, should he miss this check-in date, they will Detain him? What he was issue by ICE was an "Order of relase on Recognizance"

My feelings too, there treating him like a criminal, even though he hasn't committed a crime.

We had both my lawyer and a translator there just case went south on us, as they (ICE) won't give any pre-information about the meeting that was held and the purpose?

There was the possibility, that he could have be Detained by ICE.

Hi All, Yes, truely heartless considering the answer to the question is right their in the exisiting laws (Keyword = Except). This is a battle from my POV "that whatever it takes, so be it". Our little meeting the other day, was his "get-out of jail free card" they were releasing him on his own Recognizance, 90 day checkings. 9 April, is just around the corner, should be interesting to see what the direction will be, as I have said earlier, we are hoping the Judge rules in our favor over SMJ. Since, it was the USCIS responsilility to issue the NTA, they failed to follow their own guidance and proceedures as specified in the AFM. Also one other point, with the new study (TRAC), it's no wonder why they're delaying the issuance of NTA now or in the future, the IJ courts are so backlogged, close to a year or more.

Immigration Review appointment with the Deportation Officer? Haven't heard of that before. Is the court involved? I take it this is with ICE, and not USCIS. Is that correct? Let's hope it all goes well. Randy, Correct it's DHS/ICE

Carl, Thanks for words of support. At least we have progress in this process, USCIS could have easly with held the NTA for months based on the TRAC report, if we had not forced the issue in US District court. At any rate, we know what the USCIS tactic is with using this action SMJ, we now have to convince the US District Court Judge not to see it not in there favor and have him keep SMJ. Were in discovery mode at the moment, seems according to the USCIS documents of discovery, that we were interviewed by a man, that's incorrect (tall Blond Female), that the AOS denial was stamped the same date (in front of us, we never saw any stamped before us), that is incorrect too!

Well, Time for round 1, after filing a US District lawsuit, the USCIS did issue the long awaited NTA without a court date, nearly 7 months after the denial fo status. Today after receiving a Call letter about two months ago from USCIS, we have a 2pm Immigration Review appointment with the Deportation Officer. We alos have our 1st US District court date schedule for 9 April 2010.

Indeed, the father is actually ok with the idea. the mother is the one that is really worried. the father just didn't want to acknowledge my presence at first but all is better now. either way your right, she wants and is going to be with me regardless what her parents say. I just wanted to get heir blessing and support Tread this water very carefully, your both need to work hard to win mama's love and support. Take your time (don't rush it), this may help mama adjust to the thought of her daughter and you together in the long run. Best of Luck to you two!

Seem the issue is with papa, a lot out of the norm, it's usually mama that you have to convince, at least that is what I faced with my wife's parents.

Also, when you have the family, dinner, be careful of your future brothers-in-law or uncles, they do like to drink, so on this night, keep the drinking to a minimum. Trust me on this I have five direct brothers-inlaw, two get (crazy) when they drink, the others kind of like come along for the ride and enjoy the party

A double handed shake with both parents (a sign of sincerity), and take some fruit as an offering.

Better ask how to properly greet her parents, remember first impressions are lasting impressions. Also prepare for a family dinner and semi-long Q&A session with family. Once you pass this test, your family for life. Good Luck

Just some thoughts, is it forthcoming, maybe in the next 20 years a (Semi-Democratic Society). China looked at what happened when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, and saw all the problems the former East Bloc countries faced, which there still are to this day, which they are still trying to over-come, and said no way hell are we going to let that happen here. Even though China still has tight control over everything within, one can feel that there is a shift/movement, to move at a slow and progressive pace to a newer China, IMHO.

Rigth to the point. When I was still in the Military in Germany, I had to submit a request for permission to my Company Commander to marry my Ex-wife.