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“The best piece of advice I can give you is to tell your wife to get on the Chinese language boards on this website and make nice with the other ladies. They will tell her what forms and information she needs to get, and then she can tell you and you can just do it. The ladies do a great job of helping each other out. My wife was consistently more informed throughout the process than I was.” Are there really "Chinese language boards on this website"? I can't find them. My wife could really use Chinese-language forum topics like these (Thankyou CFL!), but we haven't been able to them here or elsewhere. Anyone have suggestions for our Chinese-reading spouses?

I'm confused. We are living in Beijing and all has been going smoothly in our DCF. After sending in, as requested, our DS-230 (we'll prepare and extra DS-260 just in case), with a passport copy and 2 photos, we received a notice to make appointment for my Chinese wife in Guangzhou. We have collected our documents and will shortly have her medical packet. We assume my wife should bring in person all these documents, including my I-864 and tax forms, my wife's police documents, etc. Also I assume she pays on the interview day. Yet some posters to this site imply we must pay first via Citic Bank and send documents ahead, which we were never notified to do. Anyone know which is correct?

My Chinese wife and I live in Beijing and are shortly scheduling her interview. CGI Stanley requested and recieved via Citic Bank our DS-230 in August (we'll also fill out a DS-260 just in case), along with a copy of my wife's passport and 2 pictures. We have been told to prepare our documents and make an appt in Guangzhou. But we were NEVER requested to send money or any other documents, as indicated in #6 and #7 above. Did they make a mistake ? We plan to have my wife bring these documents, with $ and medical packet to the appointment. Is this a new policy different from your experience, perhaps?