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Congrats to your friends, big step

FYI to OP there is a time limit on when she can get in via special enrollment so definitely get on this ASAP ... I believe it's 30 (or maybe 60) days from the day she moves here. It appears 60 days. She just arrived in the US 2 weeks ago, so we should be good. Now I try to find out if she needs a SSN for it, currently she does not have one yet

I think that's the way to go, will look into. She is 71, but I believe she does not qualify for Medicare yet, as she needs to be resident for 5 years I believe. I will check ACA

My mother in-law just arrived and will be staying with us (approved GC immigration), she does not have health insurance and my employee plan would not cover her. Any affordable individual plans we could look into?

We live less then a mile away from the one in Plano. Good selection

In Texas here (Dallas), my wife N-400 also took almost 2 years, she got her citizenship last March

Hefe-Vollkorn-Bier - its really a wheat beer, made of whole grain... that what it supposed to mean, but I have never seen this in Germany And the other german words "Verkostung und beste koestliche produktion", these are german words, but together in this sentence, doesn't make sense. Means something like "Consume and delicious production"

N-600 is an add on for documentation. Son actually becomes a citizen, when your wife applies for the passport and brings the son along. All you need is the birth certificate showing he is her son. We just went thru N-400 and will apply for passport this week. I still recommend N-600 for future reference, its a nice document.

My wife did 3 things 1) downloaded audio of all 100 questions onto iPhone 2) converted the form questions and answers into audio files 3) attended an English class specialized on citizenship test Since it took 12 months from scheduling the interview to actually having the interview, she had plenty of time to listen to all the audio in the car while driving. My daughter and I also got the pleasure of listening to it for a year. She just passed the test in December

Awesome, we all know how that feels.

My wife had her interview on Friday 27th in Guangzhou together with our daughter. Process was very smoothly, its off to pack the bag. The whole process was almost 2 years, but happy to get through the finish line. I put my wife's review out below. The only thing I am upset about is that she drools about the "handsome blond foreigner VO", oh well http://www.visajourney.com/reviews/view-dos-cis-reviews.php?entry=12409

How did you manage to get out of obedience school for 1% ?, please tell me the secret

To amplify this and turn this argument 180 degrees. I was not even born in America, born in Europe and my family is from there, my parents never lived in the US. I am actually the immigrant here (now USC), and everyone assumes my whole family was here for generations.

During our process, we might have done something wrong and lost the birth certificate for my wife. As she was born in the 70's in Guangzhou, where can a new birth certificate be issued?

Apples, lots of apples in the fridge. Why strange? They all came from a vacation trip, collected from the hotel elevator bank where they had free apples for the guests.

Yes it felt very long. Also I filed two petitions, and both got approved at the same day. My wife could not sleep for an entire two days once I told her the news. She was too excited, now it's progress, work with the NVC. Docs already hade been forwarded. Thanks all of you for your support, I know everyone shares the same feeling

Wow, what a long time, after almost 1 Year (filed in 1/19/12), the I130 for my wife and daughter finally got approved. It was a long brutal wait, but now it is up to NVC processing. Now I will concentrate on those topics.

Keep on going. Don't know how many attempt it takes, but maybe someday an USCIS official takes a step back and thinks, hey this guy is appealing all the time and there actually is a real relationship here. No person would think that a real "predator" has the guts to continue one, and tries again and again. I hope for you that finally someone wakes up and takes your case seriously.

I remember with my old iPhone 4 purchased in the US, it couldn't get unlocked in China without Gevey card. Quite a hazzle. Thats why I purchased iPhone 4S in China and it works in US like a charm

The issue is,once you leave BJ, you are supposed to either show the visa in a hotel, or register at the local police. So for normal trips that last long the 3 days, a tourist visa is still required.

You always can blame it, that American houses are much bigger so it takes more effort to clean at the same level. That's will be at least my strategy.

some nice pictures, I liked the school pictures, as my wife 30 ago would just have been in kindergarden then. It seems from Guangdong or Hong Kong, thats where she grew up.

I always have to bring Hershey's Kisses to my in-laws. My mother in law loves those and can't get it in China.

Now the second half of the honeymoon starts. The integration in the new environment is a whole new story to look forward to. Ping is from Guangzhou? My wife also. Looking forward to share stories. I also have been in Guilin before.

I would include them. I was in a similar situation. I have 2 children from first marriage, 1 step daughter. The step daughter is with my chinese wife and living in china. I listed them all, and everything went fine.