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Congratulations and best wishes!!

Congratulations and best wishes for your new life together!!

First, take a deep breath I was a DCF case as well. My husband was denied a B2 visa when we were in Japan (we were already married when he first tried to apply for the visa). In the beginning, I did not frontload my application as many people talk about. I had no idea the dept of what should be included with the intial I-130. However, we did not encounter problems when we went to interview. DCF couples, in general, do not get scrutinized as much as others. Take a breath and do not worry, you've done the best you can and I am sure it will be fine. Good luck!

lol edit to congratulate you on the ssn, not the gc. think of that as an early congrats ^__^

Congrats on the green card! Now your wife can get a drivers license and many other things! Enjoy!

I know you are asking about a woman's interview attire, but if it might help anyone with their hubby interviewing, I dressed my hubby in suit and tie. The tie was pink of course. Suit was black with a plain white dress shirt. I agree with what others have said. I am sure it is possible to get the two minute interview and pass while wearing your regular lounge-wear, but if you are going to go all for it anyway, wearing professional attire cannot hurt.

PS. I overlooked another important detail for DCF in China. You said you went to Japan to marry your wife last month. When DHS reviews your petition, they will look to see if you have been in China for at least 6 months continuously. This means that you have only been in China for one month, in their eyes. They were very strict about this for me when they looked at my passport, they scrutinized it to make sure that I had actually been on Chinese soil for more than 6 months. (I think this is different for people on work or other visas, but I was on an "L" visa). You may want to make an appointment at your DCF filing place to inquire. That would be the fastest/surest way to find out. Let me know if you have any questions regarding Japanese paperwork. I will be glad to help you if I can!

As it has been pointed out, my husband and I married in Japan while we were both there for schooling. At that time, Japan (and if I am not mistaken, all consulates/embassies) had temporarily stopped DCFs due to I believe the Adam Walsh Act (it went into effect the month we were married). Since we did not know at the time how long it would be in effect, we decided to move to China to file. Anyway, that's a different story, but we were told that even if the conditions of the act were removed, we would not be able to file in Japan because they did not allow DCF for third party countries. Plus, they said we could not file on student visas. I think this has recently changed, though. I am not sure if GUZ operates the same way. I think that both parties need to be residing in the country of DCF. I think it is also easier to file if at least one person is a citizen of the country of DCF. Like others have said, I would probably just file stateside and have her interview in Japan. You can easily go there since Japan has the visa waiver program. On a side note, we did have a difficult time obtaining the police certificate, but I think it will be ok for your wife since she is a Japanese citizen. Plus, it is much easier to obtain if you are in the country already.

Congratulations and best wishes!!

My hubby has a friend that was just approved in GUZ for an immigrant visa. The problem is she/the consulate forgot to have the fingerprinting done before she left. They sent her a letter to request her to come back to GUZ for the fingerprinting (she was going to have her passport sent to her home through a third-party service). Has this happened to anyone? She is from the north, so she was wondering if they can do it in Shenyang or Beijing, or does she really have to go to GUZ again? I told him the best advice would be to bite the bullet and get back to GUZ asap. Just kind of wondering if this has happened to any of you/anyone you all know.

This is good news to hear. After reading all the comments, I decided that I don't really need to worry about it, so I am just going to provide as much as possible then hope for the best, which is really all we can ever really do when it comes to these things

Did you have to do biometrics? Thanks for your list, it looks similar to mine, except a house deed

I had not frontloaded an EOR, much like yourself. My husband and I also did not have an extravagant engagement party, nor did we even have much of a wedding party. When we married, we were dirt poor, living off my scholarship and his part time job in Japan. Our "ceremony" consisted of signing the mariage application and going to a some-what decent dinner with his sister and my family, which they paid for! We had a few pictures, one professionally taken on our wedding day, and the rest were at the dinner. I didn't have a dress, so looking at the pictures looks like my hubby took me out to dinner and bought me a bouquet of flowers. What I am trying to say is that there is not necessarily a problem with having no party. It is not a requirement, but I would not bring attention to the fact that you did not have one. We never brought up that our "reception" looked like a semi-casual night on the town. I hand-wrote an EOR before we went to the interview. I did not notarize it because notarizing it does not guarantee its authenticity, so I figured that it would only show that my signature was real, and could have a nice meal for $30 in China I formatted my EOR as a timeline. I tried to exclude any references to my emotions and any references to the future. I also made sure there was evidence (in my husband's brief case) that could serve as proof of every statement I made. Below is my EOR, in [brackets] is the proof I encluded for my hubby should the VO have had any questions of the authenticity of the statements. Dear Immigration Visa Officer, My name is "xiaofeizhu" and I am the wife and petitioner of "Mr. xiaofeizhu". Below is a brief timeline of our life together. I would greatly appreciate your favorable consideration in regards to today's interview. 2005 September - Met in Kyoto, Japan as classmates of Blah Blah University when I fell off my bicycle [Japanese visa to show the similar arrival dates of us to Japan] 2006 May 11 - Officially began dating [pic of us the night we began dating] 2006 June - Began living together in Mr. Xiaofeizhu's dorm [pics] 2006 December - Engaged [receipt of rings, translated] 2007 January 09 - Married at Shimogyo-ku Ward Office in Kyoto followed by dinner party [pics, marriage cert] 2007 March 14 - Moved into new rental appartment [pics, rental agreement] 2007 July - My parents, sister, and childhood friend visit us in Japan [copies of their entry stamps to Japan, pics] 2007 July 25 - Arrive together in China through Shenyang from Kansai International Airport [copy of visa, entry/exit stamps] 2007 September 04 - Began renting an apartment together in Beijing and taking classes at Beijing Foreign Studies University [rental agreement, translation of rental agreement, copy of student ID/tuition charges] 2007 October 13 - My mother and father fly into Beijing to visit us for 13 days, Mr. Xiaofeizhu's mother and father come to Beijing from Inner Mongolia [my mom/dad's passport entry/exit stamps, pics] 2008 January 31 - Returned to Inner Mongolia to spend time with Mr. Xiaofeizhu's family [train ticket] 2008 July 09 - Mr. Xiaofeizhu and I arrive in GUZ [train ticket] 2008 July 11 - My mother and father arrive in GUZ to visit and support us [passport entry stamps, physical passports at interview] Sincerely, Xiaofeizhu 2008 July 14 Hope this helps. Just as a side note, you said I am not sure if I am reading this wrong, but it sounds like you will only be together for three more years. I tried to keep my EOR easy to read so that the VO could just peek at it and be done. Our certification of the ability to communicate in Chinese and Japanese was done through an affidavit, but I think it is good to include it on the EOR, too. I would try to have some kind of proof that you can communicate in Chinese, though. Sorry this post was so long! PS The VO never looked at our EOR either, even though my hubby tried to give it to him.

We got one too at the beginning of the month I guess they are improving the system. Good luck on your removal of conditions. We are sending ours in next week.

Thanks for the always fast reply. I will definitely get the affidavits after reading your post. I was figuring on getting a few anyway, but I will definitely work on that. Do you think that in addition to the two I get from mutual friends having one from my mom/dad telling the examiner that we live in their house is a good idea? Or is it obvious enough by showing various proof that we use the same address on all our forms/bills. I was thinking of including different addressed bills from over the past two years (i.e. credit card bill, life insurance bill, college bills, etc.) so that the officer can see that we have been using the same address since moving to the US and also is able to see that we have lived together over the entire period of time (some bills are joint, others are separate, so that will help to show that both of us are still here). What do you think? Thank you again for the speedy response. Now I can go to sleep since it's almost 2 am and I need to get to work by 7:30

Hey everyone. It is time for us to file our I-751. If any of you remember my episodes during our initial filing for CR-1, you probably know what I am like right now as I type this I do not have much evidence, so I am including our tax returns (married filing joint for the past 3 years), letters from our credit unions stating joint accounts, a letter from our life insurance company showing beneficiary status for each others' plans, and a letter showing my 401k beneficiary is my hubby. One quick question I had was regarding some property in China. My hubby and I have an apartment, and it is in both of our names. However, the name on the deed is my maiden name since we had aquired it before we came back to America (at which time I changed my name). Should I include it as proof of joint assets and explain that my maiden name is not changed since we have not been back to China since moving here, or can I just attach the copy of the deed and figure they will figure it out (a copy should already be in his file since we used it as evidence during the I-130). Is it even worth re-filing it because they already have it in his file? Do we need to include anything like our marriage certificate or anything that we included on the I-130? I imagine it is just redundant. I will also try to get afidavits from a co-worker and a mutual friend. Since we do not have many assets, anyone else have any ideas about what can be included to prove that we are still a married couple? We definitely are even if we do not own much together, we still pay all our bills together and our paychecks both go into one joint account. What else is there?

My removal of conditions is being sent in at the end of this month. Thanks for the info, I will try to follow a similar format. I hope we don't run into problems because we still don't own anything together. Does being a beneficiary on life insurance and bank accounts count for anything?

Any news on the visa? Hope everything is going well.

Sorry to hear about your blue. For our co-sponsor, who was my mom, we submitted tax transcripts for the previous three years. If your co-sponsor has all of those pages, I would just submit it. No harm, they will look at what they need to and use what they want. I like the transcripts because they are issued by the IRS, but if you do not want to wait, it should be no problem to send what your co-sponsor has. Hang in there. You will have your wife over soon

Congratulations! Now you have to throw out all those cheetos and videos. Time to clean up before she gets here!! No more empty Pizza Hut boxes lying around!

Congratulations! It is always great to hear about an easy pink! Best wishes for your new lives together!

Congratulations! Best wishes! Hope you have time to upload some pics!

Congratulations, Robert! I knew you would be successful. Now the real fun begins! Best wishes!

Congratulations! We will file for removal next month. Hopefully it goes as smoothly as yours! Kick back, and ignore the government for a while !

Congratulations! It's good that there won't be any green card-related mop slaps for a while!