DougB

it wasn't clean enough. she is finding places to clean i did not know existed.

hello everyone. my wife ping is stateside now and we were wondering how quick her final vaccinations needed to be done. she got several in guangzhou, It takes a little time adding her to the health insurance and it would be great if we had till after the first of the year.

Ping gets here to Knoxville at 10:30am. right now she is over the pacific on her way to LAX. I have been cleaning the house for 2 weeks now getting ready for her to get here. hope its clean enough.

my wife printed EVERYTHING out before her interview. the more you have the better.

Thanks all

Hi all. Quick question. My wife's first stop in the United States is LAX. Will this be where she hs to produce her visa or will it be her stop in Dallas where she flys from there to here in Knoxville.

Wild grown right now here in the smokey mountains is going for 200 a pound

how about ginseng?

so if i understand you correctly they will send her a green card automatically then. thats great. that is very good

hi everyone. now that my wife has her visa in hand and will be in the states on dec. 8th what comes after that? does she need to apply for a green card right away? can we get her a state ID card with the visa? we have been so absorbed in the visa process we never stopped to think about what comes after the visa. and help/hints/advice will be greatly appreciated. BTW...i was informed last night that we will not be using the heat just need to buy thick quilts and wear more clothes in the house. lol. i live in the mountains....we will see how that goes

I was introduced to most those rules at her parents house. The no shoes in the house was certainly different but after about a day of it i liked it. O. I have learned that everything is dirty and should not be touched. Who knew

Congratulations!! Your story was fun to read. Don't let these other guys scare you, its easy having a chinese wife. 1) no shoes in the house 2) everything is cleaner than you thought possible 3) You think there is other kinds of food than chinese ? 4) A chinese web site said ... 5) You eat CHEESE ? 6) no need to use a clothes washer, just wash things you wear in the sink and hang them up to dry 7) You are not REALLY going to run the heat when its only 50 degrees in the house are you ? 8) always wear house shoes in the house so your feet stay clean 9) never sit on the bed, your clothes are dirty ... I can't think of any more but that is a start .. I think there is a pinned post somewhere

hello everyone, my name is doug. my wifes name is ping. i wish i had discovered this website a year a go no a week ago..lol. sure would have been helpful. i just wanted to share our story. it turned out so good i am still in a bit of shock. so here goes. ping and i met on a dating website in 2010. it was one of those pay sites where you have to pay to chat. pay to read letters, pay to write letters. as i expected when i signed up for the site i got hundreds of letters that read like they had all been written by the same person. wether they were or were not i am not sure. anyways...read a ton of letters, responded to a few then i discovered their chat feature. chatted up a few women but nothing serious. after a week i was ready to call it a day and so was my wallet. then i met ping on the chat feature. she was very warm and kind. we continued to use the chat feature to communicate for about another month when i confided in her that it was very expensive to use...near a dollar a minute. we then set about finding a way to communicate outside the website. when i would send her my email address the site owners would translate like this ##############. gotta keep making that money i guess. so we figured a way around that. like this My name ...at hot..mail dot com, it worked. the block they used on chat feature never picked that up as an email address. after saying so long to the website we started communicating using yahoo chat. after a couple of months we decided it was time to think about meeting. i had already started feeling love for her and we decided to get married and go for a marriage visa instead of the fiancee visa which i thought the fiancee visa would be quicker. so i started getting everything together for what would be my first time out of the country and my first time flying. wow. what a time. then one evening ping came on yahoo and said do you have your single certificate? i was like what is that. she exclaimed it was needed if we were to marry. i had no clue how to get one. at first i thought it was something she had heard she thought i needed but sure enough you need one if you marry a chinese girl, and after all the research i found they are easy to get. but anyway i got my visa, plane ticket and bought me a carryon. took two weeks in vacation from work and made an appt at the consulate in gunagzhou to get the affidavit of marriageability(single cert). the day of the flight i could not wait to see my bride to be but i was certain that the plane was going to plummet from the sky and that i would probably be the only casualty...lol. after i guess 14 hours of terror we landed in hong kong then i changed planes and hoped for the best. 55 minutes later i was safely on the ground in guangzhou. wow!! i was in china!! first time i was ever outside the usa. now to locate my woman. O...there she is running up to me. well after the inital meeting we went to the hotel to rest. stayed in guangzhou 2 day. i went to the consulate and got the affidavit of marriageability and off to WuZhou we went to get married. we had a great time. her family is kind and inviting. we were married on oct 14, 2011. after a week in her hometown we were off the guangzhou to see about getting her visa. shocker for us!!! you have to wait on those things. so we got a lawyer and began the petition. over the next year we kept in near constant contact using yahoo chat. time came around for my vacation in 2012 in oct so i got ready to fly again. got my visa renewed, bought a ticket and hoped for a quick flight. except for the 5 hour layover in seoul it was quick and enjoyable. ping met me at the airport in guangzhou and we rested there for a day then we went to guilin for a week. that was awesome. truly awesome. we had the best time. then we went to her parents house for a week then i came back home. when i got home word was waiting that her interview was nov 13, i was excited but i knew a NO was very possible. so i readied for that. i found a ton of english teaching jobs in china. i had no intention of going another year without my wife. the day came. she was very tense. we had tried to think about what they would ask her so we had prepared her best we could. i waited for her text. minutes seemed like hours. then she texted me CALL ME. i called her expecting to have to start thinking about life in china but the VO had granted her visa!!!!!!! we were both so happy. now she has her visa in hand and this friday i will buy her plane ticket to come to the states. it was an incredible journey. never in my life did i think i would find one like her. i feel very fortunate to have met and married her and very blessed the government let her come here so easily.

I have to get one of those soy milk makers. my wife just got her visa. whew...took a year