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Congratulations! Having myself just brought ChunMei home to Colorado last week I knwo how happy you both must be.
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You will send to fiancee and it will be brought to the interview, and turned over with all the other docs the day before interview.
The consulate treats the I-134, similar to the I-864 that you will later use in the USA when adjusting status, follow the I-864 instructions for financial evidence.
They expect to see attached to the I-134.
- Copies of past 3 years IRS returns or simple IRS transcripts which you can order for FREE from the IRS. (Or an explanation why you did not file a return)
- Copies of past 6 months pay stubs.
- A Letter from employer. (Basically, your employer letter should state "To whom it may concern: (first name,last name) has been employed full-time with the XYZ Company since 200_ as a (name of your job), and is an employee in good standing with an annual salary of $XXXX. Signed, John Doe, Supervisor (or whatever title)" The letter should be on company letterhead.)
http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Immigration%20Stuff/I-864Income-1.jpg
Bank statements not required unless you are using amount on deposit as an asset, if income exceeds 125% poverty line then NO bank statements needed.
GUZ speaks out fo both sides of it's mouth. While the instructions say 3 years of tax returns were not required, at thje time we'd shipped the paperwork over there I still hadn't filed my 2010 return. So I sent the "supporting documewntation, including W-2 and all the K-1 and 1099's I had at the time. I filed my 1040 a couple of days later. When ChunMei did her document turn-in the day before her interview the intake clerk told her that they needed 3 years of 1040's, and that if the 2010 1040 wasn't present she'd be blue-slipped. I emailed the 2010 1040 to her and she had a hard copy for the interview. They still questioned her strenuously about why she hadn't turned it in the day before.
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If the P3 is on the way then it doesn't matter what the NVC says. I have seen this before here. The file was transmitted electronically.
I thought that K-1's were not transmitted electronically or if they were that we would still have to wait for GUZ to receive the hard copy. Is this the start of something new? It seems so fast. Does this mean we could expect the interview to be at the end of June?
Things are in change with NVC --> Consulate process, someone mentioned before that NVC was test piloting "Safe File" system, so more than likely they have expanded this and are scanning petitions and transmitting them to the consulate, and yours may have been one.
Ours happened a lot faster than we had expected, too, so maybe this is happening now.
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Good to hear other people's thoughts on this. I'm facing this issue with my future sister-in-law. She's 38 and has never been married. Unfortunately she's got an argumentative personality. Even ChunMei admits this, and doesn't like spending much time with her. So we'll see how this works out.
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For what it's worth, my divorce took as long as yours, and ChunMei and I were engaged for a year before the divorce was final. We front-loaded our K1 petition with all of the information, and had no problems because of my divorce situation.
Thanks for your time!! Thats good to hear. Congrats!
Nick,
Did you front load the info yourself or did you use a visa service? As you see in other's responses, they suggest I get help from an immigration attorney, since I have a minor criminal record and was married less than two months after my divorce ended. Based on your experience, do you feel it would help me to get help? At this point, Im not feeling so confident. Not confident and being so busy at work now, I cant afford to miss something in our petition or visa paperwork before my head is cloudy.
Thanks again!
Randy
Sorry, should have mentioned that I used an immigration attorney here in Colorado. She's the one who recommended I put together a detailed timeline of my divorce and my relationship with ChunMei. She also knew ChunMei was aware of the details of my divorce from the beginning of our relationship. In the interview they asked ChunMei if she knew I was married previously, and she told them about my divorce in great detail. I think that might have helped.
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Note that what the letter says they want isn't necessarily what they really want. For example, the letter says that they want is the I-130 and they also recommend 3 years of 1040 tax forms.I hadn't beed able to file my 2010 return at the time we sent all the other paperwork to ChunMei, so our attorney sent copies of all the financial documentation I was using to file my 2010 report. W-2's, 1099's etc.
When she went to turn in her paperwork the dey before her interview the intake officer told her that they require 3 years of 1040's. Said she could still have her interview, but she'd be denied because of "insufficient documentation."
She called me, and I scanned my 2010 1040 (which I'd filed by then) to her and she printed it about 20 minutes before her interview.
So in the letter, if somethings suggested, recommended, or even hinted at, bring it.
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For what it's worth, my divorce took as long as yours, and ChunMei and I were engaged for a year before the divorce was final. We front-loaded our K1 petition with all of the information, and had no problems because of my divorce situation.
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Only a week and a half left, and I'm outta here for Nanning.
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Thanks to the cheapness of digital film this became a real problem for us. We've got over 4500 pictures from my two visits. Plus the engagement photos we had taken by a professional photo studio in Nanning. We used a couple of the engagement photos, with both of us wearing traditional Chinese costumes, and about tem more pictures I chose. ChunMei also has all of our photos ob a DVD, and before her interview she selected and printed about ten more herself.
She told the interviewer in great deatil where each picture was taken, and the circumstances. She told me the interviewer asked if these were the only pictires she had, and she pulled out the DVD and said, "I have a few more here if you want to look at them."
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ChunMei went back to Guangzhou two days ago, and returned to Nanning the next day. We talked yesterday, and....
She has her visa, all the paperwork, and I leave for Nanning at 6:15 PM May 20. And we come back to the US at 4:15 PM May 29. Together.
Great news how long did it actually take after the interview to get it? What did they tell you in the email response?
It was about two weeks. She had her interview on 15 April.Returned home to Nanning on the 22nd. The consulate answered my email on the 26th saying the packet was on the way to the Guangzhou post office. ChunMei took the night train back to Guangzhou on the 28th, picked up her passport and other papers on the morning of the 29th, did a little shopping, then took the tran back to Nanning that night.
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I posted the news in another thread, but she did get her visa, and I'm leaving for nanning on 20 May. We'll fly back here to Colorado on the 29th.
Holy crap, airfare has gotten expensive! Last time I flew over it cost me $1100 round trip. This time it's $2100.
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They can punch their own damn holes!
Too bloody right!
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I went for the K1 because I had two problems. First I have custody of my daughter from my previous marriange, and he mother absolutely refuses to allow her to leave the US with me for any reason or timeframe.
Second, ChunMei and I were engaged after we'd known each other for a year, but I was still married when it happened. My ex and I had been separated for almost 5 years, but she wouldn't cooperate with the divorce because she had a temporary parenting and child support order that gave her 50% parenting rights, and $600/month in child support. She knew that she was going to get hammered in the final settlement of the divorce, and she want to avoid that as long as possible.So on paper I'd been devorced for a month then we filed for the K1. Fortunatly GUZ looked at the details, and gave it to us.
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Congrats and hope you two have a wonderful life together. My wife saw your photo and was asking if your wife was from Guilin also!
ChunMei's from Nanning.
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There are a bunch of English language schools there. ChunMei and I did the mountain bike/ Li raft trip, too. Last New Year. Weather was beauriful, and the scenery is spectaqculer. ChunMei doesn't swim (yet) so she was a little nervouse on the river, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat. And probably will. I like Yangshuo.
We stayed at the Peace Family Hotel off West Street. First time I'd ever seen a bathroom with a picture window.
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I guess the stressful part was the yes/no/maybe/yes, part. We never knew what was happening from one day to the next.
So in 3 weeks I fly from Denver to LA to Guangzhou to Nanning. Hope we have anough luggage space for her stuff. And she wants to go shopping in Nanning for new bedclothes before we leave there "because it is here much cheap." I keep pointing out that we can't carry a king-size comforter in a Samsonite rolling suitcase.
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Congrats!.
Hey I know where you took that pic in your Avatar, Elephant Park along the Li River in Guilin. My wife is from Guilin.
Funny story about that. We'd come to Guilin after spending four days un Yangshuo. ChunMei had visited Guilin many years before, and wanted to see Elephant Hill Park again. She spend about 20 minutes questioning locals about how to get there, got about 20 different stories about which buses we should ride, and then we looked at the map we'd picked up in the hotel lobby and saw it was across the street from our hotel.
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ChunMei went back to Guangzhou two days ago, and returned to Nanning the next day. We talked yesterday, and....
She has her visa, all the paperwork, and I leave for Nanning at 6:15 PM May 20. And we come back to the US at 4:15 PM May 29. Together.
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Thanks for the positive words, guys.
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Well, I just finished an hour of Yahoo video with ChunMei, and I wrote another email to GUZ. I asked them if they could tell me anything about our case status. Now we'll see if they even answer me with something other than a form letter.
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Hell, I'm 63 years old. I hope I live long enough to bring her home here.
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I hope they'll tell us something sooner rather than later. I don't to wait 6 weeks and then get blue or white slipped.
Or six months.
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Yeah, our relationship is rock solid; she and I both know that. But she said she was asked some odd questions at the interview. The interview asked her if she was the one who actually wrote her letters to me. She has about 400 emails (that's how we communicate when we're not talking on Yahoo everyday) with her, and she tried to show some of them to him, but he wouldn't look at them. kept asking her is she was sure [/b she was the one writing them. Apparently he wasn't convinced she could speak English, even though they were conducting the interview in English.
And he kept asking why we'd filed the petition so soon after my divorce was finalized, even though we'd both stated that I'd been separated for 5 years, and the divorce had been filed two years earlier.
I wish I could be with ChunMei now, but as I mentioned earlier, I have ajob with limited vacation time, and I want to use it to fly over and bring her home here. Plus, I'm a single father with a fifteen year old daughter, and can't just pack up and leave her alone with no notice.
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Well, ChunMei's back in Nanning. She has the EMS number that is supposed to let her check on whether her passport/visa's been shipped to the post office in Guangzhou, but so far nothing is found for that number. had hoped for a June wedding, but that doesn't liik possible now. I sent a status query to the consulate, but they just replied with the automated reference to the web page about how they deliver visa.
So I don't know if there's some sort of problem, or just lackluster processing.
Can we pickup the visa from the consulate?
in Consulate Process: P-3 ~ Interview
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Don't overlook going through Beijing, which is actually closer to most of the eastern half of the US than Guangzhou or Hong Kong. Beijing also tends to have better connections within China. Of course, depending on where you're coming from in China.
My advice is don't fly through Beijing. Did that 2 weeks ago and the flight from Nanning arrived 10 minutes too late to catch our flight to LAX. Bad dust storms from Mongolia closes the airport more often than they should. Had to spend an additional 20 hours before the next available flight out.
ChunMei's sister works for China Air Freight, and says that connections through Beijing should be avoided without a minimum of 4 hours between flights. That said, Beijing is a very nice airport, and China air was very good about getting us a hotel room and meals..