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She should have gotten an updated I-751 receipt which should serve as a 48-month extension letter.

Within a larger prefecture-level city, usually the urban area of the main city is divided in several small county-level units (called "districts"), and then there are rural areas, called counties, and then also minor outlying cities, called county-level cities. They are all at the same level and under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city. Sometimes counties can be changed into county-level cities by adding "city" to the name. Sometimes county-level cities can be renamed to districts to expand the urban area of the main city. For example, for Guangzhou, the Yuexiu, Tianhe, Haizhu, and Liwan districts are small and are parts of the Guangzhou main urban area, Huangpu, Baiyun, and Panyu are mid-sized and like suburbs of Guangzhou, and the other ones are much bigger and more rural. Conghua and Huadu used to be county-level cities, but now all 11 county-level units are called "districts". In your case, maybe the main urban area is small so that's why it has only one or two urban "districts".

There was a new announcement a week ago about visa application procedures for M, F, Z, S, Q, R, C visas (here is the one from the embassy; the same notice is on the consulate websites too). I am not sure if this means that unexpired visas of these types from before COVID can be used, or whether one would still need to apply for a new visa regardless.

I have heard recent rumors of Chinese citizens with valid Chinese passports and valid reasons to go abroad (e.g. work or study) having their passports cut at the airport and denied exit when they try to leave China. I have heard rumors of this sometimes even happening with people with US green cards. Has anyone here had this happen to someone they know?

Hopefully, given her explanation and the pandemic situation, the immigration officer will just let her in (perhaps with a warning), and she wouldn't need to deal with I-407 or immigration court. If the officer doesn't just let her in, the thing to watch out for is that they might try to pressure her into signing I-407 to voluntarily give up her permanent residency. The alternative is to be put into removal proceedings in immigration court, and that sounds scary to most people, so they might give in and sign I-407 instead. But she should really think of removal proceedings as a kind of "appeal" for the immigration officer's decision -- if the officer doesn't let her in, then she wants to be placed in removal proceedings because that provides her the opportunity to present her case a second time to an immigration judge, who may (and often do) rule in her favor. Plus she will be allowed to stay in the US in the meantime and can get a lawyer to represent her.

So your son was automatically a Chinese citizen and a US citizen from birth? Have you tried to get a US passport plus a PRC entry/exit permit instead? However, to get a US passport, you would need both parent's consent, unless you have sole custody. Even if you got a passport and any visas/permits for your son, you would still need to have both parent's consent to bring the child to another country (again, unless you have sole custody).

You can get a CRBA without the other parent's consent. But in general you cannot get a US passport for a child under 16 without the other parent's consent, unless you have sole custody or a court order allowing you to bring the child out of the country. Even if you got a passport for a child, you should not bring the child out of the country without the other parent's consent (again, unless you have full custody).

Children who have dual nationality (i.e. Chinese nationality under PRC law and foreign nationality under foreign law) are issued PRC travel documents by PRC consulates worldwide, and the documents say that the bearer is a citizen of the PRC. For example, all children who are born in the US, who are Chinese citizens at birth according to PRC law (because at least one parent was a Chinese citizen and neither parent was a Chinese citizen with a green card) are issued PRC travel documents. But it also applies to children who are born in China and who have dual nationality due to having one Chinese citizen parent and foreign nationality from the other parent. However, PRC travel documents are only issued by PRC consulates outside China; if the child was born in China, they first must have gotten an Entry/Exit Permit, and only after going to a PRC consulate outside China would they have gotten a PRC travel document for the next time they wanted to visit China. I am not sure which document the OP was referring to. But regardless, the document they would apply for now is a PRC travel document, as long as they have never renounced Chinese nationality for the child.

If they issued him a PRC Travel Document, that implies that he must have been a Chinese citizen from birth (according to Article 4 of the PRC nationality law, a child born in China to at least one Chinese citizen parent is automatically a Chinese citizen). So he would not be able to get a PRC visa (unless you first renounce Chinese nationality for him), and should get a PRC Travel Document instead. The procedure for applying for PRC passports and travel documents is to use the Chinese Consular app, which you can find on US iOS/Android app stores under the name "中国领事". Here are some FAQ from the Chicago consulate on using the app, and a QR code to go to the app store page. Unfortunately, all this is in Chinese only.

If the doctor really can't give her the Sinopharm or SinoVac vaccine because she's already vaccinated, then perhaps it can fall under "Persons with documented medical contraindications to receiving a COVID-19 vaccine"?

The proclamation applies to people entering as nonimmigrants. The CDC has details. You are right that the accepted vaccines for the proclamation doesn't include Kangtai vaccine (the only Chinese vaccines accepted are the Sinopharm and SinoVac ones). The proclamation doesn't apply to people with immigrant visas (though they have to comply with the separate vaccination requirement for immigration, which started on October 1). Is your fiance traveling to the US on a nonimmigrant or immigrant visa? If it's a K1 fiance visa, that is technically a nonimmigrant visa (even though it is often processed by the immigrant visa department), and neither the proclamation nor any State Department page specifically mentions exempting it, so I don't know how it would be handled. The State Department had previously granted national interest exceptions to all immigrant and fiance visa holders for the geographic COVID bans, but it is unclear if this would carry over into national interest exceptions for the new vaccination restrictions.

The list of testing places accepted by each consulate are listed on that consulate's page regarding testing for travel to China. Here is the list for New York.

Look on the I-90 page, under "Filing Fee",

It works in the WeChat that you get from the US (iOS or Android) app stores. The mini program inside WeChat is called "防疫健康码国际版" (Chinese for "Epidemic Prevention Health Code International Version"). Perhaps she could be confusing it with a different health code program?

I'm assuming she's a Chinese citizen? In WeChat she should do "Scan", and scan this: Alternately, in WeChat she can search for "防疫健康码国际版" and it should show up as one of the results. I am not really sure what is the difference between the WeChat mini-app for Chinese citizens and the website for foreigners.