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[shushuweiwei]

Hey everyone, we are back in Yingkou celebrating the New Year. Do the fireworks ever stop?

 

I wanted to hold off to have the visa in our hands. It was ready on Friday the 23rd, the second day after the approval.

 

I mentioned elsewhere how I went to ACS and had a productive meeting there. Others may want to consider taking an evolution letter to ACS to be notarized. The officer looked at the letter, asked me some questions and entered info into her file as I spoke. Weiwei felt very good about that and it gave her more confidence going in. She went in feeling pretty good and I went to the coffee shop to wait with a nice fellow who unfortunately received blue, but who I was able to recommend the info at candle.

 

After she went in he and I chatted nervously and about 8:45 AM Weiwei came out looking sad and nervous. I swallowed hard but knew it was kind of early. She couldn't find her passport copy in our system of folders and they sent her out to copy it. After she did that she hurried back in and we waited some more. At 9:50 she emerged, skipping with her pink paper in hand. I liked that better.

 

Since no papers are processed at the medical now, she had to go through and produce all the papers at the first stop. After they took what they wanted, Weiwei insisted they take my I-134 and tax returns. She also made them take take my employment letter and copy of my last paystub from 2008. They didn't want to, but she made them take them. We had never discussed doing that but apparently some things she read on 001 made her want to do that. She proceeded through the initial phases, fingerprinting, oath, no problems. A few people went before her and seemed to be predominantly blue but she tried to keep her thoughts away from what was happening mostly. Maybe her mind was far enough away from it that she missed her number/name being called several times then finally heard it and ran to the window with a hearty hello.

 

I was a little afraid of a blue at pickup because the officer didn't ask to see any pictures. I don't recall any interview result report where no pictures were asked for but maybe there have been some in the past. Weiwei felt that the officer was probably new. After most of her answers the woman turned to talk to a woman who was standing behind her. Weiwei's officer was an asian woman "with very small eyes". Weiwei felt she was very nice.

 

Weiwei answered somewhere between 10 and 20 questions but more questions were asked. A few times, after a question was asked, while Weiwei was thinking of how to say in English, the officer moved on and asked another question. Weiwei laid out our emails, phone records, etc on the counter but they weren't asked for. The only evidence requested was records from my flights and hotel stays in China.

 

After looking at my passport, she asked if Wei knew I'd been to China before meeting her. She told her that she knew that I looked for her for a long time and met other women in China. Interestingly, she seemed to want to know about whether we stayed together in the hotels when I visited. She asked how many times I visited and Weiwei said 3 and they had a little back and forth about whether this time counted. Weiwei told her that after the interview we were going back to the hometown to spend the holiday with the family and so to her it definitely did count.

 

About halfway through this initial part of the interview, Weiwei says that she thought, "Oh! My English better today than any day before! After half the interview, without any request from Weiwei, the officer switched to talking to her in Chinese and Weiwei felt after that that they were just chatting, even though she was still asking questions.

 

In addition to questions about my visits to China she was asked the usual who petitioned for you, where does he live questions. She also asked if she knew I was married before, had kids. She asked some questions about my kids and what they thought of us. She was interested that my son lives in Jerusalem and they chatted about that a bit. She was asked what her parents thought about me, our age difference and her moving to America. All of that was punctuated by her turning to talk to the white woman behind her. She felt that at one point she turned back very quickly as if trying to see how Weiwei looked when not talking to her. Weiwei felt proud that she was standing tall and smiling at her when she turned her head quickly.

 

After she spoke to the other woman for a while she typed, pulled out a pink paper that made Weiwei excited and handed it to her saying something like "here you go!" This added to our suspicion that she was new/training as she didn't say "congratulations" or "you're approved" and she didn't give her any instructions on where to go next or mention paying for delivery. Weiwei said thank you and gathered her stuff and skipped out to me. After a long tearful hug, I realized that she hadn't arranged delivery and I sent her back again. She found the appropriate window and paid the delivery fee.

 

After she came out that time she noticed that somewhere on that white delivery receipt there is a part that in Chinese indicates there should be a stamp there for it to be valid. The ladies hanging around the coffee shop told her they thought that was the way it always looked but she needed to confirm it so she went back to the entrance again. The guard looked stunned and exclaimed, "You again?!" (in Chinese) at that point. If nothing else she had the record for the most re-entries that day!

 

We fretted about the holiday and when we went to bed on Thursday there was still no info for our EMS # online. When I got up the site showed it was delivered the night before about 7. That place is a bit out of the way so luckily we got a taxi driver who knew it immediately and took us right to the front door. So by about 10 on Friday morning we had the visa in hand and were off to some marathon shopping for the holiday (as well as our wedding rings) before returning to Yingkou via Beijing.

 

The holiday is great so far and we'll be flying home together on Feb 1. I don't know about you, but I'm exhausted!

[Jon & Cindy]

Sorry,I am new here,I was going to post "congratulations", not only a smlie face Anyway,thank you for the useful informations,and wish you both a great time in China!

Hey everyone, we are back in Yingkou celebrating the New Year. Do the fireworks ever stop?

 

I wanted to hold off to have the visa in our hands. It was ready on Friday the 23rd, the second day after the approval.

 

I mentioned elsewhere how I went to ACS and had a productive meeting there. Others may want to consider taking an evolution letter to ACS to be notarized. The officer looked at the letter, asked me some questions and entered info into her file as I spoke. Weiwei felt very good about that and it gave her more confidence going in. She went in feeling pretty good and I went to the coffee shop to wait with a nice fellow who unfortunately received blue, but who I was able to recommend the info at candle.

 

After she went in he and I chatted nervously and about 8:45 AM Weiwei came out looking sad and nervous. I swallowed hard but knew it was kind of early. She couldn't find her passport copy in our system of folders and they sent her out to copy it. After she did that she hurried back in and we waited some more. At 9:50 she emerged, skipping with her pink paper in hand. I liked that better.

 

Since no papers are processed at the medical now, she had to go through and produce all the papers at the first stop. After they took what they wanted, Weiwei insisted they take my I-134 and tax returns. She also made them take take my employment letter and copy of my last paystub from 2008. They didn't want to, but she made them take them. We had never discussed doing that but apparently some things she read on 001 made her want to do that. She proceeded through the initial phases, fingerprinting, oath, no problems. A few people went before her and seemed to be predominantly blue but she tried to keep her thoughts away from what was happening mostly. Maybe her mind was far enough away from it that she missed her number/name being called several times then finally heard it and ran to the window with a hearty hello.

 

I was a little afraid of a blue at pickup because the officer didn't ask to see any pictures. I don't recall any interview result report where no pictures were asked for but maybe there have been some in the past. Weiwei felt that the officer was probably new. After most of her answers the woman turned to talk to a woman who was standing behind her. Weiwei's officer was an asian woman "with very small eyes". Weiwei felt she was very nice.

 

Weiwei answered somewhere between 10 and 20 questions but more questions were asked. A few times, after a question was asked, while Weiwei was thinking of how to say in English, the officer moved on and asked another question. Weiwei laid out our emails, phone records, etc on the counter but they weren't asked for. The only evidence requested was records from my flights and hotel stays in China.

 

After looking at my passport, she asked if Wei knew I'd been to China before meeting her. She told her that she knew that I looked for her for a long time and met other women in China. Interestingly, she seemed to want to know about whether we stayed together in the hotels when I visited. She asked how many times I visited and Weiwei said 3 and they had a little back and forth about whether this time counted. Weiwei told her that after the interview we were going back to the hometown to spend the holiday with the family and so to her it definitely did count.

 

About halfway through this initial part of the interview, Weiwei says that she thought, "Oh! My English better today than any day before! After half the interview, without any request from Weiwei, the officer switched to talking to her in Chinese and Weiwei felt after that that they were just chatting, even though she was still asking questions.

 

In addition to questions about my visits to China she was asked the usual who petitioned for you, where does he live questions. She also asked if she knew I was married before, had kids. She asked some questions about my kids and what they thought of us. She was interested that my son lives in Jerusalem and they chatted about that a bit. She was asked what her parents thought about me, our age difference and her moving to America. All of that was punctuated by her turning to talk to the white woman behind her. She felt that at one point she turned back very quickly as if trying to see how Weiwei looked when not talking to her. Weiwei felt proud that she was standing tall and smiling at her when she turned her head quickly.

 

After she spoke to the other woman for a while she typed, pulled out a pink paper that made Weiwei excited and handed it to her saying something like "here you go!" This added to our suspicion that she was new/training as she didn't say "congratulations" or "you're approved" and she didn't give her any instructions on where to go next or mention paying for delivery. Weiwei said thank you and gathered her stuff and skipped out to me. After a long tearful hug, I realized that she hadn't arranged delivery and I sent her back again. She found the appropriate window and paid the delivery fee.

 

After she came out that time she noticed that somewhere on that white delivery receipt there is a part that in Chinese indicates there should be a stamp there for it to be valid. The ladies hanging around the coffee shop told her they thought that was the way it always looked but she needed to confirm it so she went back to the entrance again. The guard looked stunned and exclaimed, "You again?!" (in Chinese) at that point. If nothing else she had the record for the most re-entries that day!

 

We fretted about the holiday and when we went to bed on Thursday there was still no info for our EMS # online. When I got up the site showed it was delivered the night before about 7. That place is a bit out of the way so luckily we got a taxi driver who knew it immediately and took us right to the front door. So by about 10 on Friday morning we had the visa in hand and were off to some marathon shopping for the holiday (as well as our wedding rings) before returning to Yingkou via Beijing.

 

The holiday is great so far and we'll be flying home together on Feb 1. I don't know about you, but I'm exhausted!

[Guest Rob & Jin]

sounds like she interviewed well

 

many of us last year posted on the importace of attending both ACS and ACH. congrats and enjoy

[HelloWorld08]

congrats on the pink!!

[IllinoisDave]

Nice write-up Doc. Congrats again.

[splinterman]

Shushuweiwei, you say a few times in your write up about how the VO interviewing Wei Wei turned and talked to the white lady standing behind her.

 

Can Wei Wei shed any light on what the two VOs were discussing when they were having those conversations? I'm just curious if perhaps there were any procedural things being discussed, or maybe suggestions being made by the 'trainer' to the interviewing VO about what to ask Wei Wei next, how to interpret or corroborate her responses, etc. Maybe this can shed a little light on the way GUZ thinks or what they may think is important at this time...

[shushuweiwei]

Shushuweiwei, you say a few times in your write up about how the VO interviewing Wei Wei turned and talked to the white lady standing behind her.

 

Can Wei Wei shed any light on what the two VOs were discussing when they were having those conversations? I'm just curious if perhaps there were any procedural things being discussed, or maybe suggestions being made by the 'trainer' to the interviewing VO about what to ask Wei Wei next, how to interpret or corroborate her responses, etc. Maybe this can shed a little light on the way GUZ thinks or what they may think is important at this time...

 

Unfortunately, she turned the mic off every time they spoke. She forgot to turn it back on once to talk to Weiwei but always had it off when speaking to the other woman.

 

From their actions Weiwei felt that she was showing her what to look for in my passport and what to look for on our hotel bills, airfare bills. She tried to hear other conversation but was able to hear only muffled voices and couldn't make it out.

[LeeFisher3]

Congratulations Doctor!!!

 

I just love that she argued about if the 3 trip counted, something others should keep in mind while preparing for the interview as it does speak to the relationship.

[Richard & Li]

Congratulations!!!

 

Nice narrative.

[Mike62356]

Congrats Doc, it's good to hear.