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Congratulations to you both. Always uplifting to hear great news.

Carl and Bing, that was a nice video. You are great couple. Bing your english is very good, and will get better with time. Congratulations again. best wishes,

Seems like you would have to go back if you don't get married. Don't you want to go home? Seems like the logical thing to do. No sense hanging around and getting more depressed. "if I get an offer from some school..." Are you a professor, as in a school might offer you an internship? Or are you a student, and do you mean if a school accepts an application you might file? I don't think a K-1 beneficiary can apply for school here, until after their is an AOS. I'm not sure, but it seems right. Potential foreign students have to get a letter of acceptance from a school before they can even apply for a student visa to come here. If you are professor and get a job offer from a school, just go home and apply for a visa to come here to work for that school. They can send an invitation letter for you work for them, and you can use that to apply for a visa to come back. What are you looking for love, work, or just to live here? Your written english is very good. I have no doubt you'd probably pass a TOEFL exam. I would suggest you go back home, if you really feel your fiance and yourself have no future. Staying in this country probably isn't worth marrying someone you don't love or who doesn't love you. You're depressed already, unhappy married life will make it worse. Since you don't give any details, no idea who needs to apologize to who. Maybe the feelings of disappointment are mutual, so no apologies needed. If you are sincere, you'll find someone just as sincere once you go back home. best wishes,

I missed the video, but I'm glad you folks were successful. Enjoy the rest of your trip and the flight home. best wishes,

Good luck with the interview and have a safe trip. Sounds like you've got the "enjoy the trip"/"have fun" part taken care of. That real Chinese food sounds good to me. best wishes,

Have a safe trip. Hope you can get a good rest on the flight over, to relax your mind and your heart. Stay focused, and stay cool. Bring Bing home and treat her like a queen. If this isn't love, then I don't know what is. You are the man. POSITIVE ENERGY! hk

I'm sorry for what has happened to you folks, especially after reading the reception you planned for her arrival and the other posts you've written about your travels and meetings. Although I can't offer any technical support, you have my moral support. Thanks for sharing your experience, it helps people like myself in many ways. Stay strong. Best Wishes and Positive Energy,

Clifford thanks for the support. Since the first post we both feel a lot better about things. The advice given by both you and Frank has been really helpful. I have an idea now on what to do to make sure we don't slip through the cracks. On the site Frank provided, I found someone with the same CSC approval date and UTL at NVC, and I also located some posts from fall 2003 from a person whose experience mirrors mine. Turns out the TSC approved her, sent her the NOA2, but didn't physically send the petition to the NVC. She posted the steps she took to correct the problem, which included calling her senator. She also posted her feelings about every step she took and her feelings about the responses they gave her. It was very uplifting. Her petition was officially "lost in transit", but with her senator's help her petition was found and resubmitted. She eventually got her k1 visa in relatively a short time after the petition was resubmitted. My fiancee graduated a little over a year ago. She's been waiting patiently ever since. The last time I was with there was Oct-Nov03. Just like everyone else, lol, we talk two or three times a day. Thank godness for the Dynasky calling card. We write a lot of emails too. We actually thought she'd be here in Feb04, and we'd be married. lol My family planned a big reception for us. It's ok. I know soon we'll be together, and my family will be able to have the big reception they would like to give us. Thanks again. I know your wait will be worth it. Best wishes.

Congratulations. I'm sure the rest of the way will seem much easier after such a long time at CSC. Best wishes.

You've chosen a great place to find information. Although I'm new to CFL, I've read a lot of the past posts. There is a lot of information here, along with support, and sound advice. Good luck. In the end, it will definitely be worth the time and effort.

Congratulations. Very comforting to hear your experience went so well with the VO. Hope the trend continues for everyone else. Best wishes.

Thanks for the information. I've been to the site and actually see someone who was approved from CSC 11Mar04, but their petition is also UTL at NVC. I hope the batch sent out wasn't lost/misplaced. I'll give them until Monday to figure something out, then I'll call them. Thanks again...

Thanks for the advice and the support. The thought that the petition might be lost is what made her sad. Waiting can be stressful as well, but we've been waiting for some time now. We just want to be together, regardless of which country it is. She's been waiting for over a year now. It's a long story, but we've known each other for three and a half years. We met when she was in University. We thought it would be best if she finished her degree and we'd start the process during her last semester. lol I was under the false impression that it would only take six months to get her a fiancee visa. I was even told that by someone on the phone when I called the BCIS and by a lawyer. I spoke to two different lawyers, but they weren't much help. I talked to several people and everyone, including the BCIS person advised me that K-1=6months and K-3=1year. It took me six months to get the right information on how to start the process. I finally went and saw a friend's cousin who does charity work helping people with immigration processes. He was helpful, but he didn't have any experience with fiancee's from China. He did however, get me started in the right direction. I wish I found CFL back when I was starting/learning the process, over a year and a half ago. There is a wealth of knowledge here, especially the experiences and research everyone shares. We did everything on our own, it was quite an experience putting the petition together. It was fun at times, and it was not so fun at times. It brought back a lot of fond memories of when we met. She is a wonderful person and I'm very happy/lucky she's been so patient. I'll take your advice. Thanks again. Have a nice day, HK

Hi Everyone, I'm new, and will post some sort of background in "Our stories later". I'm in US and my fiancee is waiting in China. We are in the K-1 process. It's been 28days since CSC gave approval and allegedly sent the petition to the NVC. I called the NVC a week ago, and the operator told me to check again in a week, because the petition hasn't reached their office yet. I called yesterday, which was the 28th day since approval, and the operator seemed a little perplexed when I told her the approval date from CSC. She asked for my full name, SS#, address, petition#, my fiancee's name, etc. Then she told me to fax a letter of inquiry to their office, provided me with a fax number, and ended by saying they would return a judgement to me via postal service. I don't know if she meant to use the word judgement, or if she was just nervous. Her tone of voice wasn't too comforting to say the least. She started to give me the usual, "Your file hasn't reached our office yet, please keep calling at least once a week." But when she heard the approval date, it seemed like she was searching the computer for more info on our case. Maybe I'm getting a little paranoid, but the nervousness in her voice didn't exactly make me feel any better. I know CSC takes a long time to process files due to the heavy load they get. Should I be worried at this point? If not, then when should I be? I've sent the fax, and all I can do is wait for a reply. If I don't hear from them by Monday, I'm going to call them again. I spoke to my fiancee about it. She was very sad. I don't want to think the petition is lost already, but my fiancee asked me if I thought it might be. I told her to wait until we hear from them. Surely they couldn't have lost it already, right? Best Wishes, hk