Finally! PINK SLIP!!!!!

[NYTIMES]

Hi and congrats!!!

We are so happy for you and your la po that you were able to get the pink!!!!

I looked at your picture gallery and you both make a nice couple and seem very happy. Now the both of you will be spending Valentines together,

 

Anyhow my la po and I are not far from you and my mother lives in Connecticut as well and often we go to visit. Maybe one day we can meet and have some Chinese food together and chat. Is your la po from Nanning?

 

Keep in touch and best wishes,!!!!!

 

Ben and XueYing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At long last, my dear wife of 14 months has received her pink slip for the K3 visa. HOORAY!!!!!! (This was after getting the blue slip in November.)

 

Of course, almost everyone at the Consulate in Guangzhou recognizes and knows the meaning of the pink slip, so she received many congratulations.

 

The only odd thing was that after she turned in her passport on Wednesday, she received a call on Thursday evening from a woman who works for the Consulate. Coincidentally, it turns out, her CR1 application file arrived at the Consulate. The timing was quite coincidental, as we have been asking about the CR1 ever since receiving notification last September that the application had been forwarded to Guangzhou. Just last week in an email they said it had still not arrived.

 

Anyway, this woman tried very hard to to convince my wife to abandon her K3 application and wait another 2 - 4 months for the processing of the "much better" CR1 visa. Keep in mind that this phone call came the evening before she was to get her pink slip for the K3 and the day after she had left her passport at the Consulate.

 

Although we are both aware of the significant advantages to the CR1 over the K3, we thought it odd that someone from the Consulate would call her and try to convince her to abandon her K3 application the evening before receiving her pink slip.

 

Needless to say, she told the Consulate employee NO. If and when the CR1 visa is available we might decide to return to Guangzhou, but in the meantime, she will be with me in the USA.

 

Has anyone else encountered a similar situation, where they try to convince you to abandon your application literally hours before receiving the pink slip? To both of us it was very strange and disconcerting.

 

 

Assuming no glitches, she will have her visa next Wednesday, and arrive in the USA the following Monday. HOORAY!!!!!!!!

[Joanne]

Congratulations!!

 

As for the call from the consulate regarding CR-1, if I were you, I would appreciate their considerations.

 

My K-3 interview date came earlier than IR-1. Before the interview, I learned that GZ has also received my IR-1 packages . I requested them to make my K-3 interview an IR-1 interview and they did. With an IR-1 visa to enter US, I didn't need to return to GZ for another interview nor need apply for adjustment of status in US.

 

At long last, my dear wife of 14 months has received her pink slip for the K3 visa. HOORAY!!!!!! (This was after getting the blue slip in November.)

 

Of course, almost everyone at the Consulate in Guangzhou recognizes and knows the meaning of the pink slip, so she received many congratulations.

 

The only odd thing was that after she turned in her passport on Wednesday, she received a call on Thursday evening from a woman who works for the Consulate. Coincidentally, it turns out, her CR1 application file arrived at the Consulate. The timing was quite coincidental, as we have been asking about the CR1 ever since receiving notification last September that the application had been forwarded to Guangzhou. Just last week in an email they said it had still not arrived.

 

Anyway, this woman tried very hard to to convince my wife to abandon her K3 application and wait another 2 - 4 months for the processing of the "much better" CR1 visa. Keep in mind that this phone call came the evening before she was to get her pink slip for the K3 and the day after she had left her passport at the Consulate.

 

Although we are both aware of the significant advantages to the CR1 over the K3, we thought it odd that someone from the Consulate would call her and try to convince her to abandon her K3 application the evening before receiving her pink slip.

 

Needless to say, she told the Consulate employee NO. If and when the CR1 visa is available we might decide to return to Guangzhou, but in the meantime, she will be with me in the USA.

 

Has anyone else encountered a similar situation, where they try to convince you to abandon your application literally hours before receiving the pink slip? To both of us it was very strange and disconcerting.

 

 

Assuming no glitches, she will have her visa next Wednesday, and arrive in the USA the following Monday. HOORAY!!!!!!!!

[warpedbored]

Considering that she had to overcome one blue slip already it might be wise to take the K-3 and head for the states. Who knows they may blue slip her again at the CR-1 interview.

[chilton747]

Considering that she had to overcome one blue slip already it might be wise to take the K-3 and head for the states. Who knows they may blue slip her again at the CR-1 interview.

 

Very wise and prudent thought Carl.