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Hello Candle of Love!!! I would just like to say thank you to everyone for your help with my wife's CR-1 Visa on July 13th, 2015. Our priority date was on March 24th so our DCF took around 3-4 months. I just wanted to post a write up of the documents and interview questions that my wife had for her interview. Feel free to ask me any questions about the interview or anything!!! My wifes interview packet included: - Marriage Certificate notarization - Criminal Background Check notarization - Birth Certificate Notarization - Medical Check(MAKE SURE NOT TO OPEN THIS PACKET UNTIL ASKED TO BY THE INTAKE PERSON) *Be sure to note that all these notarizations are only Valid for one year - DS-260 confirmation - Interview confirmation letter - i-130 approval letter - Wifes passport info page - Wife's Resume The Petitoner's Financial Info - I-184 (Be sure to include the original!!! not scanned version) - W2's for all three years - 2014 Tax return -2013 Tax transcript - 2012 Tax transcript - Passport info page -Birth Certificate The Co Sponsor's Financial info - co sponsors I-184(Be sure to include original, not scanned version) *Also note if you do not live in the same household that your co- sponsor must fill out the i-184 not i-184a - W2's for all three years -2014 Tax return -2013 Tax return -2012 Tax return - Passport info page -birth certificate Domicile info (DCF people) - My plan for America, including where I wanted to apply for work, where I planned on living, and for how long I planned on living there (Most important) - My intended address in America - Drivers License - Car Title - Rental contract with my dad Proof of relationship - All the original documents from my I-130 packet along with pictures of me and my wife. Also I included photos of me with her family. The interview Be sure to arrive about 1 hour early to the interview and line up on the left line because the line to the left is the immigration line with your interverview confirmation letter and your DS-260 ready to show to the security people. After that my wife went through the main gate and wait in a line for security to let into the embassy. This may take a long time and Guangzhou summer is very hot. After that my wife went to the third floor to get her order number then she went to the document intake person. The information that my wife has to include was... My financial info, Co sponsors financial info, all the notarization packets, Medical, DS-260. The intake person asked my wife questions like.... "Did you bring money because you have to pay the fee today?" " What is the co-sponsers relationship with sponsor?" "have you lived in any other country before?" Then she instructed my wife to take the paper and pay the fee * IMPORTANT NOTICE: The person who gives you a order number asked my wife for something called a appointment letter with a case number but no one knew what that was. So my wife just gave them a DS-260 which the order number person accepted. If you don't have that you must wait for someone to give you some kind of file. Someone actually got their interview cancelled because of this!!! After this my wife has her interview with a very friendly visa officer who first gave my wife a booklet on domestic violence and asked my wife to read it. After that she asked pretty striaght forward questions in primarily English - Whats your name? - Where do you work? - Is your husband waiting outside for you? (Probably saw me waiting for my wife on the security camera) - What does your husband do for work? - What is your husbands plan for America? ( this was important because he actually asked to see my written plan for america) -What is the co-sponser's job? -Will you go back to china? - Are you a member of communist party -Do you have any question about the domestic violence? -What is my mom's name? -How long has you husband lived china? -How did we meet each other? - Have you met the petitioners parents? And those are the questions that were asked. Make sure to anwser all the questions breifly. Try to speak English if possible because that is the language of the visa officer and it also helps establish how you can communicate with the petitioner. The interview only lasted for 3-5 minutes and then after the interview the Visa officer asked my wife for my written plan in America. Then he said we passed and our visa will arrive in 2 weeks. Thanks once again for everyone posting their information online. It helped us a lot on everything with this visa. Make sure to over prepare for this interview because you never know what the officer may ask. THANK YOU EVERYONE!!! Feel free to ask anything.

My husband received both a white and pink slip after his April 3 interview. The white slip, which was stamped with the date as April 2 (is this going to cause us any headaches?) states that the immigrant visa has been preliminarily approved, but additional documents are needed before the visa can be issued. The additional documents (listed on the pink slip) needed are related to my residency or the domicile issue. I should add that in fact I did have a letter to prove domicile with a student loan as well as a bank statement attached, however the letter did not provide substantial details about my future employment. In addition, he was explicitly told that they needed a more specific work plan from the petitioner (me). I am submitting my most recent bank and credit card statements, a copy of my driver's license, student loan statements, a letter explaining in detail my intentions for work and the like. Is this enough? Is this a formality or is this the same as administrative processing? Do denials happen after receiving a letter like this? When you submit any documents via CITIC bank, US Travel Docs instructs you not to seal the envelope...can anyone confirm this? I am asking because the hubby's passport will also have to be sent. Are there any fees you must pay to CITIC bank? I plan on taking care of this on Monday, April 7 as we are still on our Guangzhou/Shenzhen trip. I will also do a detailed write-up of my husband's interview once we return to Xi'an. Thanks, Marissa