interview success

[georgeandli]

jhammer, Congrats. All the worries are gone. For now Keep at it and best of luck! Now you're in the next phase. Bring her home.

[HelloWorld08]

congrats on the pink~

[jhammer]

Everything went great at the consulate. Feb, 26th we were approved, and we will be in America shortly. A big thank you to all the members here providing expert guidance.

And here is the interview translation ( the interview was in English for the most part, but later the VO started to ask questions in Mandarin while my Fiancee answered in English).

 

VO: please give me your passport

 

ME hands the passport

 

VO: Your fiance name

 

ME xxxxxx

 

VO: How did you know him?

 

ME: Internet

 

VO: the site?

 

ME xxxxx

 

VO: Met online what time?

 

ME: October, 2007

 

VO: what time did you meet in person?.

 

ME: 2007, Christmas, we have spent.

 

VO: a long time?

 

ME, about one week

 

VO: 2nd?

 

ME: April, 2008, spent two weeks.

 

VO: this is his third?

 

ME: No, this is the 5th

 

VO: 5th. !

 

ME: Is the 5th

 

VO: then, the third is what time?

 

ME: 28 August, 2008.

 

VO: a long time?

 

ME: lasted only two days and a half

 

VO: two and half days. Why?

 

ME, because his work is too busy, there is no time, we very much missed their

 

VO: 4.

 

ME: this Christmas

 

VO: A few days.

 

ME: 9 days

 

VO: What is he is doing for work

 

ME: computer engineer.

 

VO: in the company a few years?

 

ME: 4 years

 

VO: salary?

 

ME:xxxxx

 

VO, he had had a university?

 

ME: yes

 

VO: What schools?

 

ME: accurately the University xxxxxx

 

VO: what major?

 

ME: Chemistry and Mathematics (" Mathematics "would not say that

the Chinese language, she immediately to understand the)

 

VO: he carried out several marriage?

 

ME: Two

 

VO: wife live in?

 

ME:*****( a different cities and GG)

 

VO: children who live with?

 

ME: the Small one with former wife, the larger with him.

 

VO: (sympathetic) Oh, he will be very difficult to

 

ME: he always miss the boy, this time before he went to see him, but the distance is too far away

 

VO: If you have carried several marriage?

 

ME: two

 

VO:, where they live now?

 

ME: I and the second of the two former husband and I live in the same city

 

VO: The first one?

 

ME: I do not know that a long time not contact the

 

VO: If your child is from your one marriage?

 

ME: first

 

It is time to VO K2

 

VO to K2: how old are you?

 

K2: 17

 

VO: you a few years? junior high school or high school?

 

K 2: 2

 

VO: you to the United States is trying to secondary schools and it was university?

 

K 2: University,*****( my daughter accurate say the university' s name in English.

 

VO: learning what professional?

 

K 2: said the Chinese psychology. (I am talking added a sentence sai khao le of, or as a result VO turned to me)

 

VO: When did you have a child?

 

ME: 21 years old, is 22 years old, ( have made a wrong years old)

 

VO: You have a very early child?

 

ME............ hollow laugh

 

VO to give me your photo

 

ME: delivery, and I GG prepared the album

 

VO (said while watching you) her fiance very young.

 

ME: Yes, (happy smile)

 

VO: (meaning of one page) is this in the beijing?

 

The VO said that your visa approved, I wish you will lead a happy life, he took up the red, and I and K 2 voice say thank you, I wish you a good day.

 

Before leaving k 2 also back said "You really beautiful! "

 

( My daughter was amazed by this VO's beauty and mentioned it more than once post-interview also. )

[Guest Dylan W]

What thorough questions that have been asked this week!

[Guest ShaQuaNew]

Congratulations!

[Guest Pommey]

sounds like she was very well prepered (knew her stuff) hope newbies take note of this.

 

ahywho great news, enjoy your training to come

[inquiet]

Did you go to ACH on Monday? If you did, what did you ask?

 

Thanks to all the good wishes and...

 

Yes, I went to ACH and also did the ACS. Also, I will post our interview session as soon as I translate it, although the questions were quite usual and lasted 5 minutes, ( it was conducted mostly in English , but my Fiancee only posted a transcript in Hanzi ).

 

On the ACH and ACS aspects,

 

One thing is the ACS. I got notarized the document "Evolution of Relationship Letter". This ended up being a big hit with the VO. Of course it wasn't actually read as part of the interview, but, It was clear I put time and effort into it, and it was less than 10 pages, so within reason. I actually made special stationary which was composed of craft-work with color copiers I did by copying and enlarging slightly all the entry-exit stamps in my passport at port of entries in China and also lifting the light blue background of the passport paper itself such that all 5 stamp pairs formed a sort of center background image on my custom "passport" stationary. My frustration and paranoia over WHICH paperwork and documentation would even be viewed and weighed for consideration in the final stages led me to do that in order to highlight how many times I had visited her. The first page was a page of contents: 1...5, of lists of my visits making it tough to miss that point :-) . On a related note, ironically enough, both the p4 letter referred to what I would think to be a supreme document - the I-134 as "optional" !!! and it apparently got little attention, even though I had some really nice supporting documentation which I put a lot of time into. I don't actually believe I-134 is optional, but that was the wording. Therefore, I think it was better that I got my letter notarized, vs the the copy of the I-134 - of course the original I-134 must be notarized, and I did that in the states before hand.

 

At ACH, I was late, arriving at 2:40 PM, somehow I thought it started at 2:30.. I donno... Guangzhou as an experience was a bit of a magical mystery tour all around - but a good one nonetheless. Anyway, the guards and so forth let me in, and being called up, I asked the following:

How long will the visa be good for? A really obvious thing I suppose, so the officer questioned me after telling me 6 months, and I explained I had heard that it could have an issue date that is dated from one of the dates prior to the interview, such as p4 or p3 date. He asked where I had heard that with some interest/concern and I couldn't remember. Anyway he said that only may happen on some unusual circumstance post-interview issue or something...I didn't really understand, and I left, mission accomplished.

 

 

"of course the original I-134 must be notarized, and I did that in the states before hand."

 

I keep reading statements that the I-134 needs to be notarized. The NEW I-134 does not need to be notarized.

[inquiet]

Everything went great at the consulate. Feb, 26th we were approved, and we will be in America shortly. A big thank you to all the members here providing expert guidance.

 

By the way CONGRATULATIONS !!