American Citizen Hour

[Jason+Joanna]

Today Joanna and I visited the American consulate in GZ. Only I could get in, since she is not a citizen. She stayed in a restraut near-by drinking some tea.

 

Anyway, I arrived at the consulate at about 2:50 pm for the US citizen hour in GZ. I was asked for my passport, and given a yellow pastic block with a number on it. I passed though security, and went to the right side of the consulate. I entered the waiting room, where several others followed.

 

Most of the people where Chinese ancestory. There was only one other guy like myself there. The staff asked who was there that had an interview for the benificary before -- they got a number on a purple piece of paper. The people who had not gotten an interview yet got a number on a pink piece of paper. I had #15, on pink.

 

Also, we were asked to give our name, the benificaries name, and our case # on a piece of paper, so they could note that we were there at that time. I added my name, Joanna's name, and our case number. We also took some pictures of the area too :-).

 

 

Most of the questions that were asked were about specific case information. I asked two general questions:

 

Where will the new consulate be located ?

 

A: We will post this information on our website -- They mentioned some East GZ train station, I didn't catch which one.

 

Will we be able to go to the interview with the benificary ?

 

A: NO.

[yuehan123]

thanks for taking the time to share this. How, and where, did you connect to the Internet?

 

Best wishes for your upcoming interview.

[david_dawei]

Wow, you went to ACH three months ahead of your interview! I'm impressed !! Enjoy your time there ...

[tonyontherock]

U.S. citizen hour, is that the Friday at 3 PM thing? I am planning on going this Friday, as the attorney for my sister in-law's application. Trying to understand where her case stands. Can you actually get any information from them? Thanks.

[Jason+Joanna]

Yes, every Friday at 3:00 pm. You can fill out some form, and they can look at the case specifically to find out the issues. They will not give specifics at the time you visit, however.