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Fantastic - helpful as always. I suppose for the CCP issue, it shouldn't be a problem as long as we deal with it the way that got us through the immigrant visa process. It looks like facing "double jeopardy" for that issue isn't usually a problem...except for that denial thread from 2013 here where someone was denied citizenship because he said he joined the CCP for a "better life." Really an odd case in so many ways, since that guy already got through the immigrant visa process after all...

For the purposes of making sure people get all the documentation they need in China before leaving, is there any Chinese documentation needed for the N-400? I suppose you need: "White book" (notarized copy of "red book" marriage license), just as used for the green card process - is that right, actually? Anything else? Anything needed for anything else besides the literal N-400 would also be worth thinking about. (I've read the document checklist, but just unsure about exact requirements.)

Congrats - and thanks for posting your example on here. Things really do work out pretty smoothly sometimes!

http://candleforlove.com/forums/topic/47247-enters-usa-after-2-year-wedding-anniversary-officer-still-isues-cr/?p=616770 http://candleforlove.com/forums/topic/46341-poe-procedures-for-an-ir-1-visa/?p=606882 More from VJ: "My husband also arrived on a CR1 after our 2 year anniversary. We informed the CBP officer who looked at our wedding date on our marriage certificate and said he would make note of it in our file, but couldn't guarantee they would send the correct GC. Sure enough, we got the incorrect 2-year GC. By the time we were able to talk to the CBP officer at POE the passport had already been stamped with a CR1 stamp. But it doesn't really matter what stamp you receive (your passport stays with you), it depends what info travels in your immgration file from POE to USCIS, and whether or not USCIS pays attention to the change." It seems like a dummy CBP officer can cause a lot of problems. "Best to arrange any connections at POE with at least 3 hours available. 4 would be better. She just needs to let them, know the second wedding anniversary is passed, in case they don't notice. There's a possibility the wrong green card will come but you can get it corrected" "File the I-90 but pay no fee. Indicate this is a USCIS mistake. Provide documentation of the marriage date and US entry date (passport stamp) and ask them to replace the card with the correct one." "My wife got the corrected green card in about a month but it varies."

Haha, yup. I think also smart to show some documentation from the GZ Consulate which shows the date, rather than just the Chinese marriage certificate! Also, I think in the worst case, we can do this: "If it comes as CR1, file I-90 with a fee waiver (USCIS error) to replace the card"

Interesting - and happy to see that you won by living life well, as your signature says! Update: Visa is in our hands now. 1 issue - the visa says CR 1 on it, and we also got the CR1 letter. I know that if we arrive in September (we got married in August 2013), we *should* get the IR-1 instead of the CR-1. I'm wondering if this actually happens, though? The visa doesn't give our data of marriage on it - how would the officer know to give it to us?

Thanks TS - I thought your struggle was ongoing though? Or is that a separate case? Today: Your passport is ready for pickup.

Thanks everyone for the wishes - I really appreciated all your help, and like you, I will try to do my best to give back to the new waves of people who are bedeviled by this process daily! Update today: Passport has been received from the consular section, and is currently being processed for delivery

Issued! Will keep on updating - to give more data to this site. I know when I was early on in the process I would just read endless other threads. So let's conclude this.

Another status update: as of today, the status was changed to be: "Your passport is still with the US Embassy/Consulate" Thanks for the support guys. Yup, after P5 I didn't have any real doubt any longer. Just posting all the updates so that people who follow after will have an additional data point! I agree about how bad government websites are. Just getting your IRS return transcripts is a huge nightmare. Took me about 100 tries to get it (literally). With the recent security breaches, too, ironically, information becomes insecure AFTER a security clearance. Just Kafka-esque!

Good luck!

After I submitted my spouse's passport to the expedited CITIC bank location in Shanghai this Wednesday, the online tracker at US Travel Docs now say that "your passport is being delivered to post." (ie it's on the way to Guangzhou, which the CITIC employee told me would take 3 days) So the system is updating properly.

This delay would seem to merit filing a mandamus action. Although I've now gotten the P5 (98 days in total), our plan was to spend what it takes to file a mandamus action after 1 year had passed.

Ok, I just basically created a new application, for "registration," and I now have a document delivery address. The odd thing is that we did it before - selecting a document delivery address. But we did it again, and now it shows again in the system, I think. I now have the blue bar at the top again. It's confusing, because we originally had the blue bar before the visa interview in Guangzhou, but it then disappeared afterwards. One thing that's also confusing - in the appointment history tab, the Guangzhou interview says and has said for a long time "Scheduled," never "Completed" or anything like that.

None of the big tile links lead anywhere. I click them and nothing happens. This is truly odd.