How many had to show you could speak and understand each other

[Michael-Sean]

I was wondering if you had to speak to each other for like 20.min. in front of a V.O. to show you can understand each other .

 

Michael-Sean

[Randy W]

You are not allowed to attend the visa interview with your wife. In the past, V.O.'s have, on occasion, requested tapes. I don't remember the last time we've heard of this - it's been a while.

[dnoblett]

Quite rare for the consulate to pull this, I think the last time was before my wife interviewed back in 2007.

It has been a LONG time since seeing anyone post having this happen, I think the consulate has dropped this practice.

 

When my wife interviewed she did it in English, I told her if they ask her something she did not understand, to ask for a repeat in Chinese, she had no problems, she also had the advantage of having been an English teacher.

 

Doing some searching and it was a topic back in 2005 and before.

 

http://candleforlove.com/forums/index.php?/topic/8523-the-infamous-video-tape/

http://candleforlove.com/forums/index.php?/topic/9832-video-tape-demonstrating-chinese-ability/

http://candleforlove.com/forums/index.php?/topic/12350-vhs-tape-comments-on-use-for-guangzhuo-interview/

http://candleforlove.com/forums/index.php?/topic/5924-videotape-proving-communication/

http://candleforlove.com/forums/index.php?/topic/14650-questions-about-interview-blue-slips-etc/ (This one has the reply from the person in the consulate) Dated 2005

[NickF]

ChunMei had her interview in both English and Chinese. Her English was still fairly basic at the time. Of course she also had printouts of about 4,000 emails between

us

, which did document that we could understand each other.

[tsap seui]

With my initial application I sent in an hour long DVD with Wenyan and I talking in English, over a hundred pages of phone logs....hell the initial application was over 600 pages. They want evidence of a boner fide relationship....they got the damn evidence. And we spent 2 solid months before the interview going over every interview question David had put up in the FAQ's, we had gleaned from posters, and could dream up ourselves.

 

Like Dan said, it's been awhile since we've seen VO's ask for proof of comunication in a direct question at the interview, but we used to see them, and who knows when the genuises in Gongshow will revert back to that.

 

Good luck at the interview, just know you aren't allowed up there with her.

 

tsap seui

[Yuanyang]

The DVD was a 'trend' back in the day (some VOs were insisting upon it), but wasn't something we had to provide in her 2006 interview.

[Michael-Sean]

Thank you for your responses . we are now starting the E-File Process. I will keep you updated on our process .

[david_dawei]

Your ability to communicate is sometimes paramount to approval... this is highly subjective to the VO she may face; but the logical fact of needing to be able to communicate with your spouse is beyond questioning, to a VO.

 

If your not able to communicate, they may not understand how the marriage or relationship is valid. That is probably a fair perspective from their approval seat.

 

My wife and I communicate without problem but she was grilled for 40 minutes by the 'Arabian VO'... who is known for her denial cases.

 

There may be some correlation between how well your wife can communicate and understand your life and then communicate that to a VO, with certainty. My wife only said she wanted a VO to ask 100 questions since she had 100 answers.

[NickF]

I think it's the little things that make a difference, depending on the interviewing officer. ChunMei had no problems with her interview at the consulate, I htink in part because she and I had discussed many specific deatails about my life and family. These were things we'd talked and written about many times, and for many questions she had to answer in Chinese, but she knew the answers.

 

After we were married and went in for the AOS, the interviewer asked the usual questions about join bank accounts, health and life insurance, etc.. And then the interviewer asked ChunMei what we'd done since we got married.

 

She thought for a minute, then said, "We travel much."

 

He asked her where we'd gone, and she told him, "Texas." He asked here where in Texas, and she had trouble with "Dallas" so I helped her. The interviewer seems a little put off that I'd halped her, and asked her why we'd gone there.

 

ChunMei told him, "Three of us go visit my husband's brother Tom for one week."

 

She asked, "Three of you? Who was the third?"

 

ChunMei said, "Me, my husband, and his daughter."

 

At that point the interviewer smiled and agreed that since my family knew her and approved of her it appeared that we were a real family.

 

Told us, "OK, you'll get your green card in about three weeks."

 

It only took two.

 

So in the end I'd say it's the gut feeling of the interviewer.