After the Blue Slip

[Eric739]

I have been reading CFL for some time and finally decided to join in on, should I say fun?

 

We submitted in February last year and finally got the interview in September, 2008. We did not have a receipt for the English school my fiance attended for about three months. The receipt was difficult to get as it was a small school where she lives and the only school she could attend without going to the university many miles away. They did not give receipts as a result.

 

After she got the blue paper with the receipt as a requirement, my fiance flew the almost 2,000 miles and did get the receipt to GZ just a few days later after a lot of literally begging.

 

We have not heard anything for months after many queries. GZ just keeps telling us that we will have our case reviewed again and they will let us know.

 

After reading the posts here, I am getting quite uneasy. I do have a lawyer and he suggested I send a reaffimation of my desire to marry within 90 days along with another query about the status of our petition.

 

So far nothing after a week. Are there any other ideas or are we heading for a white rejection slip?

 

Thanks.

[peterd01]

I have been reading CFL for some time and finally decided to join in on, should I say fun?

 

We submitted in February last year and finally got the interview in September, 2008. We did not have a receipt for the English school my fiance attended for about three months. The receipt was difficult to get as it was a small school where she lives and the only school she could attend without going to the university many miles away. They did not give receipts as a result.

 

After she got the blue paper with the receipt as a requirement, my fiance flew the almost 2,000 miles and did get the receipt to GZ just a few days later after a lot of literally begging.

 

We have not heard anything for months after many queries. GZ just keeps telling us that we will have our case reviewed again and they will let us know.

 

After reading the posts here, I am getting quite uneasy. I do have a lawyer and he suggested I send a reaffimation of my desire to marry within 90 days along with another query about the status of our petition.

 

So far nothing after a week. Are there any other ideas or are we heading for a white rejection slip?

 

Thanks.

 

 

I'd say no news can be better than... something else.

 

We got blue'd in June and it took two months to get the doc's. I emailed 30 days after they had signed the DHL receipt and told to wait we'll let ya know. Then emailed at 60 days and they replied we are sending you back to USCIS....?

 

BTW... We just planned a trip to Hong Kong to Marry at the same time a friend was going there, he was in a similar situation like you but he'd been blue'd three times and waiting about six months. Three days before he is to go to Hong Kong and get married his fiancee gets a letter saying come pick up your visa....?

Edited February 18, 2009 by peterd01 (see edit history)

[Rick1952]

I have been reading CFL for some time and finally decided to join in on, should I say fun?

 

We submitted in February last year and finally got the interview in September, 2008. We did not have a receipt for the English school my fiance attended for about three months. The receipt was difficult to get as it was a small school where she lives and the only school she could attend without going to the university many miles away. They did not give receipts as a result.

 

After she got the blue paper with the receipt as a requirement, my fiance flew the almost 2,000 miles and did get the receipt to GZ just a few days later after a lot of literally begging.

 

We have not heard anything for months after many queries. GZ just keeps telling us that we will have our case reviewed again and they will let us know.

 

After reading the posts here, I am getting quite uneasy. I do have a lawyer and he suggested I send a reaffimation of my desire to marry within 90 days along with another query about the status of our petition.

 

So far nothing after a week. Are there any other ideas or are we heading for a white rejection slip?

 

Thanks.

 

I know it's hard to be patient when GUZ is fuc*ing with your life, but my advice is to be patient!!

My friend's SO got a blue in early August of 08, he kept sending them letters demanding action. They got denied the end of October 08.

My SO got blue in late August of 08. Perhaps because of my friends denial, I decided to wait the full three months before faxing GUZ. Then I only sent a letter about every 3 weeks. The second letter was a little like a petition, signed by about 30 friends and relatives, attesting to the sincerity of our relationship. All my letter were very nice, begging for approval.

The result, my SO got her call in letter 2 weeks ago. She has turned her passports in to GUS, and hopefully will pick them up later this week.

We had to wait 7 months, but we got what we wanted.

Remember, as pissed as you might be with GUZ, kill them with kindness, so that you get what "you" want.

Good Luck, and God Bless,

Rick & Yumei

[tsap seui]

I have been reading CFL for some time and finally decided to join in on, should I say fun?

 

We submitted in February last year and finally got the interview in September, 2008. We did not have a receipt for the English school my fiance attended for about three months. The receipt was difficult to get as it was a small school where she lives and the only school she could attend without going to the university many miles away. They did not give receipts as a result.

 

After she got the blue paper with the receipt as a requirement, my fiance flew the almost 2,000 miles and did get the receipt to GZ just a few days later after a lot of literally begging.

 

We have not heard anything for months after many queries. GZ just keeps telling us that we will have our case reviewed again and they will let us know.

 

After reading the posts here, I am getting quite uneasy. I do have a lawyer and he suggested I send a reaffimation of my desire to marry within 90 days along with another query about the status of our petition.

 

So far nothing after a week. Are there any other ideas or are we heading for a white rejection slip?

 

Thanks.

 

I know it's hard to be patient when GUZ is fuc*ing with your life, but my advice is to be patient!!

My friend's SO got a blue in early August of 08, he kept sending them letters demanding action. They got denied the end of October 08.

My SO got blue in late August of 08. Perhaps because of my friends denial, I decided to wait the full three months before faxing GUZ. Then I only sent a letter about every 3 weeks. The second letter was a little like a petition, signed by about 30 friends and relatives, attesting to the sincerity of our relationship. All my letter were very nice, begging for approval.

The result, my SO got her call in letter 2 weeks ago. She has turned her passports in to GUS, and hopefully will pick them up later this week.

We had to wait 7 months, but we got what we wanted.

Remember, as pissed as you might be with GUZ, kill them with kindness, so that you get what "you" want.

Good Luck, and God Bless,

Rick & Yumei

 

Boy, these are some good posts. Having gone through 300 days in blue slip hell, and after being the perfect gentleman with over 60 e-mails seeking if they needed any information to help their decision, GUZ nailed us with a denial.

 

I empathize, and sympathise with all of you. This is one of the most stressful times in most people's lives, having to go through this mess with uncaring governmental officals. I'm only two days away from going to see my woman and get married, and 18 months away from making a new application for her.

 

I don't expect any of you to understand this, but I can tell you...it has now been 19 months since our horrible interview and now, it seems like it all started yesterday...all our pain, anguish, and misery is so far in our backgrounds.

 

Stick it out with your woman, your dream WILL come true. I know you go to sleep at night and this mess is the last thing you think of, and then you awake and there it is staring you in the face...EVERYDAY...and through-out your day.

 

Just know, the hurt with pass. You will work out a plan B, and you may never know what the hell the problem was, but you will get over this pain.

 

A white slip doesn't have to be an ending, you can make it be a new beginning.

 

Feel your pain, and write about it to help relieve the stress, but know, it will pass...you WILL have your dream and a good life.

 

Good luck to all of you.

 

tsap seui

Edited February 18, 2009 by tsap seui (see edit history)

[weiaijiayou]

I have been reading CFL for some time and finally decided to join in on, should I say fun?

 

We submitted in February last year and finally got the interview in September, 2008. We did not have a receipt for the English school my fiance attended for about three months. The receipt was difficult to get as it was a small school where she lives and the only school she could attend without going to the university many miles away. They did not give receipts as a result.

 

After she got the blue paper with the receipt as a requirement, my fiance flew the almost 2,000 miles and did get the receipt to GZ just a few days later after a lot of literally begging.

 

We have not heard anything for months after many queries. GZ just keeps telling us that we will have our case reviewed again and they will let us know.

 

After reading the posts here, I am getting quite uneasy. I do have a lawyer and he suggested I send a reaffimation of my desire to marry within 90 days along with another query about the status of our petition.

 

So far nothing after a week. Are there any other ideas or are we heading for a white rejection slip?

 

Thanks.

 

this and other similar posts make me a little sick with worry about my fiancee's interview, which is coming up in the next month. i'm not clear as to why such pieces of evidence which, after all, should be icing on the cake sometimes end up delaying the visa. (no one ever said she had to take a 3 month english class, so if they don't believe she did, why don't they just assume she didn't and move on, right?)

 

hang in there! there seem to be lots of good people dealing with similar situations right now.

[Eric739]

There were no questions like "Did you attend school?" or "How did you know your English?"

 

The VO just looked at our pictures and took one of them over to another VO, and they talked. He came back and said, "Your fiance is older than you."

 

She responded in Mandarin, "Does not matter." (mei guanxi.)

 

I am about 15 years older than her which IMO is not that great an age difference. Nor do I look old for my age. This guy was just using it as an excuse to draw out the process.

 

We had everything else, pictures, a receipt from my Mandarin class, receipts of all the calls, copies of almost 1,000 emails, all the hotel receipts (including the little lottery thingies you get in China). Everything.

 

He did not even look at any of them. He just asked for a receipt from English school, the one thing she could NOT get at the time.

[Appaullo]

Is English school a requirement for a Visa? I have not heard this before. My wife speaks decent English, but has not attended an English school. Curious as to wether or not this is a requirement now?

 

Appaullo

[Randy W]

Only if your VO wants to give her a hard time

 

The VO can ask for anything he wants

Edited February 19, 2009 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Sebastian]

Eric - you can call DOS or the call center in Shanghai -

 

for Shanghai call center - see

https://www.usavisainformation.com.cn/eng/information.aspx

 

But - hei - call !

either office will have info, but is usually 24 to 48 hours old.

[david_dawei]

How did the VO even know about the school in the first place?

 

Was this information at some point volunteered or put in a letter which the VO read?

[Eric739]

No it was not volunteered. I am thinking he saw the receipt for my Mandarin training and thought to ask the same question of her.

 

We were told that you coudl use a translator, which she carries with her always.

 

We communicate very well. I studied linguistics and language in college and speak many languages having lived in Europe when I was child. My interest in language brought me to China. I also have a second degree in English. I have a room in my house specifically set up as a training class for when she gets here.

 

I think her nervousness was a factor. She was very worried about the interview. I trained her for hours over the phone. I could not get to GZ at the time of the interview. My visa to China ran out and I did not get the passport back in time to make it. Guangzhou is linguistically different from Manchuria, where she comes from. There is a bit of an accent that sounds quite starnge to her. She is not well travelled within China. So being in a strange place contributed.

 

If there are any regrets, it is not being there for her. But she insisted she would do OK.

 

She is so special to me. I hope it turns out OK but I am ready for the worst.

[HKG]

After the Blue, you start to understand what Janis Joplin meant when in one of her protest songs, she sang "Freedom is just another word". or

Melaney's. "look What they did to My Song Ma". but hopefully you will overcome and get pink.

Edited February 20, 2009 by HKG (see edit history)