Cleared name checks.

[newman]

1st NOA 12/7/01

2nd NOA 2/20/02

Clearance Submitted unknown

Interview 11/22/02

Name check cleared 12/6/02

[PJ]

1st NOA: Feb 2002

2nd NOA: Apr 2002

Packet 3 returned: Aug 1, 2002

Packet 4: never received

Interview: Nov 14, 2002

Visa issued: Jan 14, 2003

[dayfood]

1st NOA: Nov. 2001

Approved: Feb, 2002

Interview date: Aug 5, 2002

Name check submitted: N/A

Name check resubmitted: Jan 4, 2003

Cleared: Jan.15, 2003

B)

[Guest onmars]

1st NOA: May 2002

Interview date: October 30, 2002

Name check submitted: ?

Name check resubmitted: Jan 4, 2003

Name check cleared: Jan.14, 2003

 

[dave]

no interview yet

Oct.22-ds-230 and of-169 sent to guangzhou

Nov 12 name check submitted

Dec.10 namecheck resubmitted

Jan 10 namecheck cleared and sent to guangzhou

Jan 14 packet 4 sent out from guangzhou

[Guest jesse]

Jesse & shanshan

resubmited on the 4th

cleared on the 16th

 

GZ said they had it there but there sending the EMS as a group "very soon"

[bobmal99]

I guess that is good news. Let's hope they send them before the holidays start!!!!

[owenkrout]

What is it with these people?! They acknowledge that your pick-up letter is ready, but they are holding it with others to send as a group?! What else are they going to think of to continue to delay these visa pick-ups?! Why on God's green earth are they holding these instead of just sending them out?!

 

Let's see...What would be the worst possible time for people to receive their pick-up letter? Oh, yes right before the start of the Spring Holiday! Hold on to those letters fellows, we will mail them next week!

 

Is somebody giving seminars in anti-customer service? If they are not, they should. They could make a fortune doing training for the Department of State.

 

Probably a good thing that it is impossible to get through on the GZ phones right now.

[tonado]

What they need is a feedback quality control system. That is the only way to improve service. However, they probably don't even care.

[Guest Yang and Ling]

This morning I called the DOS and spoke with Leshan. After asking me the date of my fiancee's birthday, she told me that the DOS had received positive information on my fiancee and that her namecheck was approved. Then she said "Congratulations, I am happy to give you this information, especially on a Friday!"

 

1st NOA: 05/06/2002

Interview: 12/05/2002

Resubmitted: 12/02/2002

Resubmitted: 01/04/2003

Cleared: 01/14/2003

 

Yang and Ling

Houston/Shanghai

[Guest jesse]

What is it with these people?!  They acknowledge that your pick-up letter is ready, but they are holding it with others to send as a group?!  What else are they going to think of to continue to delay these visa pick-ups?!  Why on God's green earth are they holding these instead of just sending them out?!

 

Let's see...What would be the worst possible time for people to receive their pick-up letter?  Oh, yes right before the start of the Spring Holiday!  Hold on to those letters fellows, we will mail them next week!

 

Is somebody giving seminars in anti-customer service?  If they are not, they should.  They could make a fortune doing training for the Department of State.

 

Probably a good thing that it is impossible to get through on the GZ phones right now.

yeah im kinda in a pressed for time situation too im going to deploy SOOON and the situation was explained briefly. they just said to wait they will send them "very soon" and said that faxing the pick-up letter is imposible and cant notify us any other way. Do ya really think they would turn you down if you showed up to pick-up the visa without a piece of paper?

[kkimm]

What is it with these people?!  They acknowledge that your pick-up letter is ready, but they are holding it with others to send as a group?!  What else are they going to think of to continue to delay these visa pick-ups?!  Why on God's green earth are they holding these instead of just sending them out?!

 

Let's see...What would be the worst possible time for people to receive their pick-up letter?  Oh, yes right before the start of the Spring Holiday!  Hold on to those letters fellows, we will mail them next week!

 

Is somebody giving seminars in anti-customer service?  If they are not, they should.  They could make a fortune doing training for the Department of State.

 

Probably a good thing that it is impossible to get through on the GZ phones right now.

yeah im kinda in a pressed for time situation too im going to deploy SOOON and the situation was explained briefly. they just said to wait they will send them "very soon" and said that faxing the pick-up letter is imposible and cant notify us any other way. Do ya really think they would turn you down if you showed up to pick-up the visa without a piece of paper?

 

Bulk mail is cheaper, maybe GZ wants to reduce cost

[PJ]

Hi All,

 

Hope you don't mind, but I'm unpinning this topic now. I think this is the longest we've ever left a topic pinned, and I wanted to give other topics a chance to be seen at the forefront as people post to them.

 

Thanks,

 

P.J.

[Eric&Yuhui]

Hi All,

 

Hope you don't mind, but I'm unpinning this topic now.  I think this is the longest we've ever left a topic pinned, and I wanted to give other topics a chance to be seen at the forefront as people post to them.

 

Thanks,

 

P.J.

PJ.. Keep it pinned.. I think 2 pinned's are OK... IMHO. Unless you want to pin my Top10's and "borrowed" top10....

Then again, who wants to laugh after 6 months right???? Well, I do ! That's all I've got left.....

[owenkrout]

Yes, I believe they would deny the visa issuance because you did not have the pick up letter. For one they are not supposed to let a Chinese National into the consulate without proof that they have legitimate business there.

 

The consulate at Shenyang looks like a fortress now. The PSB has it heavily guarded from the outside and will not allow people to que up on that side of the street.