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Hi, I submitted my DS-260 almost 2 months ago and was later informed by the consulate that I was missing past work and education information. When reviewing the form, the only field which could be relevant for this information is titled "PRESENT Work/Education/Training Information" and therefore, the first time around, I only inserted my current employer and occupation. Could this be the designated area for that particular requested information? I have emailed the Consulate several times, to no avail. I would appreciate if anyone could share their experience. Thanks

My wife had her interview this month and, unfortunately, was given a 221G blue form. The consulate told her that they don't need any more paperwork and that her application only needs to undergo further administrative processing. The strange part is that the interview did not contain many questions about us, but instead was more concerned with my wife's education and work experience as an engineer. I'm wondering if anyone has had any experiences similar to ours. She isn't part of the CCP, She wasn't missing any paperwork, and their decision to perform administrative processing seemed to be related to her education and work experience.

My wife's daughter will be attending her interview in Guangzhou end of this month. As I study, it seems there is very little specific information about a daughter/son immigrating to the USA. It's all lumped into 'immigration visas'. Question. Is she required to give a resume? It says: RESUME: Provide a detailed resume (in both Chinese and English), including all professional and educational history. Please be sure to include the following information: A complete list of all of your employers and all specific job responsibilities and projectsAny publications you have written. Note titles, descriptions and dates of all publications. Be as comprehensive as possible.A list of all foreign destinations visited, including dates and purpose of travel.A work plan explaining where the applicant(s) will seek employment after immigrating to the United States. She is looking to visit some universities in the states and possibly continue her education. No concrete plans have been made. Thanks!

We started our application process in earnest back in September 2013, finishing up in Jan 2014 (pending submission of one more document, probably next month). We've lived in Shanghai since 2004, have been married since 2006, and have 3 kids. Disclaimer: the immigrant visa application process is not static, it evolves, especially recently with the move to the new consulate building and online with ustraveldocs.com. So don't take the story below as a recipe for what the application process should look like; at best, let it serve as inspiration and a rough guide. This first post is the TLDR version; if you want a more in-depth story, jump to post #2 below. MICAH AND JODI'S DCF IR1 VISA ADVENTURE 2013/2014 – TLDR version I-130 Sep 8-9: E-mailed back and forth with USCIS in Beijing and made appointment. Collected these materials: * I-130, signed * Micah's G-325A, signed * Jodi's G-325A, signed * Marriage Certificate Notarial Translation (white book) * Passport photos, with names written lightly on the back in pencil * Rental contract showing common tenancy * Birth certificates of daughters * Photos of major life events together * Timeline of the relationship, including meeting, wedding, honeymoon, birth of children, trips to the US Sep 16-17: Travelled to Beijing, submitted documents. Paid the $420 fee. Sep 23: Received e-mail from USCIS with an attached scanned notice of petition approval, and a follow-up paper copy by mail. * Tip: There are a dozen print/copy shops on Xiaoyun Rd just north of the consulate. * Tip: Don't wait in line at the embassy; show your passport and waltz to the front of the line. * Tip: Deposit your backpack across the street from the embassy. DS-260 Oct 15: Received a phone call from Guangzhou asking for my e-mail address, and ten minutes later an e-mail with instructions for submitting these documents to CITIC: * Document Submission Letter (with download link) * DS-260 confirmation page print-out (filled out online) * One copy of biographical page of applicant passport * Two US-style passport photos of applicant Oct 25: Submited docs to CITIC at 331 Caoxi Rd, Xujiahui Metro exit 5 behind BuyNow. * Tip: Print out *every* piece of communication/documentation/attachment from Guangzhou. Interview Nov 5: Received E-mail from Guangzhou with case number, interview appointment instructions, and a link to a checklist on ustraveldocs.com of documents to prepare for the interview. Began to file back-taxes, find co-sponsor, collect documents on the checklist. Jan 6: Made an appointment through ustraveldocs.com for Jan 23 at 8:45am, the earliest interview date and time available. Jan 21: Travelled to Guangzhou Jan 22: Went to do medical check-up. Prepared: * Printout of P-3 email ("invitation letter") * Printout of the interview confirmation attachment * Applicant's passport * Any previous vaccination records * 5 photos Doors opened at 7:30, checked-in by 8:30, check-up was done by 9:30, report ready the same day at 3pm. Jan 23: Arrived at the consulate gate at 8am, let in at 8:15, lined up outside security for 30 minutes. Wife went in, I stayed outside. Documents submitted: see checklist on traveldocs.com, we went strictly by it. Result: Approved, conditional on submitting a new police report (ours was from Jan 2013, considered too old). * Tip: Make an appointment with ACS for same day so you can go inside the consulate; otherwise, you wait outside. * Tip: Check your bag/phone at the newspaper stand down the street. * Tip: For the consulate -- implement a more secure way for people to check bags, give line priority to babies/kids/elderly, and either prepare more change or use round numbers for the visa fee. Lessons learned Overall impressions carried away from this process: * Just follow the instructions from the consulate. * Don't try to do it all at once. * Keep good records, helps be consistent in filling out forms.

My wife and I are both working on her resume for her visa interview in a few weeks. In the instructions, it says that she needs to include a work plan explaining where she will seek employment after immigrating. She wants to work as a pre-school teacher or a Chinese teacher in the US. Should I be more specific than that? We are not sure where exactly she will look for work and we don't know which schools she will apply to. We will live in NY for the first several months while I finish up my master's degree, and we might move down south after I graduate. I guess my question is, how specific should we be in her work plan? How important is the resume to the visa officers? Also, to help claim domicile, I will provide my graduate school registration papers for the upcoming fall semester. Do you think this is enough? We are not 100% sure where we will stay in NY. There is a chance we will stay at a place my Grandma has in NYC. Would it help if my grandma wrote a letter stating that she will provide a place for us to stay and help support us when we immigrate to the USA? I realize I just asked a lot of questions. Any feedback would help. We wouldn't have gotten this far without this forum and I really appreciate it.

This is my first post, been following this forum for months now, but I think perhaps our visa case is very unusual. My fiancé and I are both foreigners living in china as study abroad students. We were together 3 years before getting engaged, and are living in china currently. My fiancé is from Pakistan, and We had a baby last year which was born back home in USA. We were still waiting on the K1 when my son was born and my fiancé couldn't be there for his birth. Long story short, my fiancé is from Pakistan and since we stay in china we interviewed here. The interview went fine but he got a blue slip for Chinese police certificate (he already had one from Pakistan which we were informed was the only one he needed) and also work resume. We submitted both documents and they received them on Dec 8. Emailed 3-4 times and always the same "administrative processing" reply. I am unsure how long does it take because the police certificates expire at 6 months and I had to change my tickets back home from winter to summer. How long does this take, is it possible it will take until July to get an answer?

Hi All, My fiance and I are very confused about this part of the DS-230. She is a graduate student and has had several 1-3 month internships for different companies during her past six years of college. These are your tyical Chinese student internships where they give you a monthly stipend (1,000RMB) to offset travel and apartment rental costs. Do these count as employment in the eyes of the consulate? Should we be listing them? Any insight would truly be appreciated. :-)

My wife had an interview in Guz a few days ago for CR1 visa, the VO requested to have a Resume/Travel history/Work plan. The first two parts are ok. The "Work Plan" asks: provide a work plan explaining where the applicant(s) will seek employment after immigranting to the United States. My wife works in a hospital lab, doing technical work and research. It's not clear to me what they want. She has 3 options. 1) stay at home, 2) stay in the medical field, 3) do something else. Does she need to have a plan for all of them or just take one and run with it? Thanks a lot for any tips on it. Jiang

Hello All, My name is Ning, I'm new to this forum, however I've seen many recommendations from users of this forum and their past experience that I feel it's a good idea to share my concern with my wife's immigration visa. We applied for CR-1 through USCIS, and it went to NVC then send to U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou. My wife had her interview on Aug 5th but was given a blue slip which requests for more document such as my 2008 and 2009 tax return or explaining why I don't have those. They also asked for resume from both my wife and I, and also to include travel history and publications. Of course I've provided them all these as of Aug 15th, and the consulate has acknowledge receiving those documents, and now we're under Administrative Processing under 221g of National Security Act. The question is the length this process can take, I've read it can take from weeks to months and even year. Given your experience with similar situation where the consulate request for additional document, and you've provided them those, how long typically does this process take? Thank you Ning Zhang

There is a new pinned topic on CCP Membership issues and Consular Processing. I have closed that topic so it remains as just the write-up, but I want to make sure people see it pinned above or by clicking here: CCP Membership Issues Write-up Many thanks to Cathy & Bruce for providing this to CFL

My wife received her call-in letter in the mail yesterday =)!! She received a blue slip during her first interview on 7/6, requesting for a more detailed resume. She submitted the resume on 7/14, but was put under administrative leave shortly after (I believe on 7/17 or 7/18). I was expecting a long wait, but much to my surprise, she received the call-in letter in her mail only ~1 month after AP. I am very excited and thank you everyone for the advices I have received or stumbled upon.

my wife went to interview yesterday and got a white slip with requesting resume and work history. has anyone else got anything like it?? is this a good or bad thing?? please help. http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6129/5940098660_ef83e6790c_b.jpg

I was just reading over on VJ Forums that someone received a Blue Slip because they failed to hand in a satisfactory Resume for themself or their spouse. Has anyone encountered a request to supply their resume or spouses resume? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the I-134? If I have a job, I don't really need an updated resume. And if I am supporting my spouse, she shouldn't need anything regarding future plans for work. Or is this for a different type of Visa? Any recommendation to prepare anyways? I probably WILL now. I think I might include a receipt from lunch yesterday, just in case. This process makes taxes look like a 5th grade Math Test!

We have got some help from this forum for our visa so we have to share our case with everybody here too. Hope it will be helpful to some of you. I went to the company in the States for training in Nov,2008. My fiance was an engineer there. Our jobs were similar, our personalities were similar and our interests were identical. We hit if off as friends immediately and spent a lot of time together at work and some time together away from work. Our relationship quickly moved into an area that was beyond the bounds that we could allow. A month later I flew back to China and there was a strong bond of love between us with no hope that it would ever be more than just a friendship. Very hard time for us then. In Feb, 2010 my fiance became free and he retired from his job and flew to China. I tried to get a travel visa but it was rejected because of our relationship. We hired a lawyer as most of you do. She helped us organize the materials and filled out the forms that were sent to USCIS. We received a letter from USCIS on 6/21/2010 that told us they received our case on 6/9/2010. After a long time waiting we got an email back from USCIS that told us "On 10/21/2010 we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)." For another two months we did not hear anything from the NVC so our lawyer checked with NVC and found out that NVC mailed the file out on 11/12/2010.We assumed that the file was on the way to Guangzhou consulate.Finally on 2/23/2011 we received package 3 from the consulate. However, they sent the package to my old address. The lawyer called NVC to have my address changed in the database on 11/18/2010 but it seems that they didn't really change it. We sent the completed package 3 back to the consulate on 2/24/2011. Something went fast here. We received the package 4 from the consulate on 3/8/2011. That was a total surprise. However, they sent us the wrong package so we downloaded the right forms from the consulate website. Package 4 told us that the interview was scheduled on 3/21/2011 and we should go to the consulate on 3/20/2011 to turn in the materials. The time was pretty close but we were happy with this since we didn't have to wait too long. On 3/20/2011 we turned in the materials. Since lots of people have talked about this process I guess I don't need to talk about it here. 3/21/2011 was a big day for us. A young man was my officer and he was probably one of the nicest officers even though he gave me a blue slip. Here are the questions he asked: 1. Who is your petitioner in the States? 2. On this form you said that your visa was rejected before, do you know why? 3. How did you meet? 4. What kind of training? 5. Do you have a resume?(I handed him my resume and he looked at it but he didn't say anything about it.It was just a very short resume which had some information on my education and work experience.) 6. What is he doing now? 7. He retired? How old are you? 8. How old is he? 9. He is much older than you. Why would you want to be with him? 10.He had a marriage before? 11.When did he divorce? 12.When did she die? 13.When did you start your relationship? 14.When did you start your relationship romantically? 15.Do you have emails or photos? 16.Is this the second time you are applying for an immigration visa? 17.Who is Lorraine?(He looked one email and Lorren was mentioned in that email.) 18.You traveled a lot? 19.Who is Laurie Anderson? 20.You don't have emails of you two emailing each other? 21.Are you a CCP member? Then the VO started to write something on a blue slip and told me I needed to send them a resume and a travel log. Seeing me look so down he told me twice:"I am sorry to make you down but I have no problem with your relationship." My fiance was sitting in the coffee shop on the third floor and he was so nervous that he couldn't help shaking while waiting. I was so upset to tell him that I got a blue slip. We were very upset but we still had to work on the resume and the travel log. We worked on them very carefully and sent them to the consulate by email in a couple of days. On 5/26/2011 we received the call-in letter from the consulate but the next day(it was Friday) was a holiday so we turned in the passport on Monday. We thought we would definately get the passport back in a week so we booked a flight to the States on 6/9/2011. No, we didn't get the passport back until today, 6/16/2011. We had to cancel the flight and lost quite a bit of money due to that but we got the visa finally! All this time my fiance has been with me and we travelled a lot in China and had a lot of fun and made quite a few friends here. We feel that we were still pretty lucky. Good luck to you too!

I am new to this forum, but have a situation that I hope someone here could provide insight on. We applied for our I-130 in November and had an interview about 10 days ago. My husband said that the interviewer seemed inexperienced and asked colleagues a lot of questions, but nevertheless ok'd the application and we went home happy with a pink sheet. A week later we got his passport back and a request for documents - his resume, travel history, and information on his company. Has this happened to anyone else? Do you know what they are looking for? Our bonafides are fine - we have been married 13 years. And he said we were ok financially - both income and assets. So I am not sure what they are looking for here... Also - we have sent in the requested information. What kind of response time can we expect from Guangzhou Consulate? Thanks.

My fiance is in the CCP and went to the interview and she got a Blue slip. We knew she was going to get a blue slip, as everyone has said before, maybe a few has been pink, but only because they were over looked(only my guessing). We did so much research on this CCP thing that we are willing to help anyone that has any questions of what is needed or how we did it. We were only ask to send in 1 other document which was a new resume stating every job history and promotions and job titles at those jobs and there dates. This will take us a short period of time and we will send it into Guangzhou and they will set another interview date for my fiance, and she will get her pink then and her visa. So if there is anyone needing information or help, we will do our best to help.

My fiance got a blue slip as expected because of this CCP thing. We thought we might have everything they would have needed, but they wanted a complete resume of her work history with all promotons, job titles and dates. After giving them everything under the sun that everyone else has given them on the CCP issue, we only need this one thing. My questions are: once my fiance sends this resume to guangzhou, does anyone know how long it might be for this blue slip to turn into a pink slip? and does she have to have another interview? and does she have to go back down to Guangzhou to get this pink slip and her visa? Is it really additional background check is what they are doing?

Earlier this year, when I was surfing Beijing US Consulate's website, I found a sample of resume beneficary can bring to the iterview, but the suggested sample is not available now. Anyone has an idea what special format GZ is looking for? What specific information my husband should include? Anyone have a sample that they don't mind to share. My husband had only had a few jobs since he graduated from college. Does he have to state his previous marraige history on there? I understand resume is sometimes asked for and seems to be more popular according to some of the blue slips in 001. My husband and I are waiting for our P4 and are working to put together our kitchen sink now. Thanks!

Hi guys, I have been away from CFL for a long time, since my wife came here successfully in 2001 on a K1, is now a US Citizen, we had a baby 3 months ago, her sister came here also on a K1 successfully and we applied for her mother to immigrate as an IR5. Everything I know about the process is that it is slow, methodical, plodding, etc. But if one has patience it all seems do-able. HOWEVER....... My Mother-In-Law is in a nightmare. She failed her interview because she was and still is a member of the CCP. They blue slipped her and asked for a detailed resume and to fill out answers to the dreaded "8-communist membership questions". So...Be honest at the interview and move to Blue Slip Lane. OK, they tell you what they want.. So give them what they want again, and be honest, right? So.. The resume is a no-brainer.. Written, translated, certified, done! But the CCP questions?? Written, BUT they CANNOT and WILL NOT be translated by a certified translator!!!!! She tried to get it translated in her hometown and NO-ONE will touch it! They will NOT translate ANY document that says anything NEGATIVE or BAD about the CCP. We then thought to locate and telephone several translation companies in GuangZhou. First they say "no problem" but when we e-mail the actual document to them they say "NO WAY! Everything about that paper is against the CCP!" (yes..we told you the first time!) Such as the following (truthful) items she wrote that they said were too negative to translate: I joined the CCP just to get a better job. I remained a member because in the past it was dangerous to even think about resigning, so after retirement, I remained a member. My participation in the CCP was absolutely minimal and non-meaningful. I can NOT terminate from the CCP. I tried to when I returned home and they threatened me not to. So..I thought I'd put this in front of the collective brain and see if anybody has an idea?? Oh… and we already though of trying to "soften" the tone of the replies by "Lying" but then if she says she “loves the CCP and will never quit”, she's toast! Going to GuangZhou next week to see if we can bribe someone to translate it. Grrrrr!

Poor Lili went to the interview last week. nervous as a bell. She didnt have the origianl 134. But it was mailed with the original application. The interview asked her breifly about us. The interviewer seemed to be native Chinese. Good mandarin , soso english. the interviewer got very curious about her job. She works for a TIER ONE oil field instrument supplier. Several people from this company have gotten Asylum visa's due to something in the past. The interviewer gave her a blue slip asking for her resume signed by her boss. Kinda lame. Whats next? another interview? what kind of time frames? If the were curious about one thing you would think they would solicit additional information ahead of time. especially since she is traveling all the way from Panjin Lioaning province. how humiliating.. I will be in China next week. I had to cancel the honeymoon tickets to Singapore though (no US visa).. 10/06 129 12/06 NVC 3/06 GZ admits we exist 6/06 GZ finishes name check 8/7/06 interview with blue slip

My fiancee just received her first letter from the embassy. They asked her to send them her work resume before setting up the k-1 interview. Is this a common request or is it something to worry about? Thanks, John

My SO got a phone call from GUZ yesterday and was asked to submit a resume to describe his education and work history. I am exicited. After five months' waiting, finally we got some news. Any suggestion on the resume?