Thanks for posting this thread. We will be applying via Beijing, and I've been curious to see the wait times. Our plan had been to start in February/March so to have about a year of lead time before our expected return to the States, but I'm wondering now if that may actually be starting too soon…we aren't planning to go back until July/August 2014. Again, thanks for starting this thread and keeping it updated! Good luck with the whole process!