When will I be with my Baby?

[Drew21]

Sent I-129F K-1 to Texas Service Center. Received it on may 25 2004.

 

Texas Service Center Approved I-129F K-1 Jul 26 2004.

 

NVC received Approved Pettion Aug 5

 

NVC security check cleared Aug 16, & sent the same day to Guangzhou, China US Embassy.

 

Arrivedin GUZ customs Aug 19 & then cleared customs & Delivered to US Embassy Sep 14.

 

Fiancée recieved P3 packet Sep 21 returned P3 packet to GUZ Sep 23.

 

waiting for P4..............??

;*O)

 

I Wonder how many more months untill she gets the P4??

[MarkandLeigh]

Drew,

July returned P-3's are just now being informed of interview dates in January. There is the Chinese New Years and Festival in there. My hunch is that September P-3's would be interviewed in March? April? The consulate takes off both American and Chinese holidays, unfortunately.

We're all in the same boat.

Mark

[John & Hai Yan]

Drew,

In all honesty I think most September P3's will be looking at receiving a P4 in February with an interview date in March. I am just a couple weeks ahead of you, P3 returned 9/3/04. With all the holidays coming up, especially the Chinese New Year, it doesn't look like it will be any faster than that. But we can always hope!

[Guest Gene]

I agree the Holidays slow things down, but the Consulate is only going to be closed one day for Christmas and one day for New years. If the Spring festival is anything like the Autum festival the counsulate was closed for a week or something but they still did interveiws through part of it. So I don't think we are losing as many days as everyone thinks. Just my opinion

 

Of course the reason I think this way is because I am still hoping for a Februrary Interview

[rosyanne]

It seems that they are "catching up". Just look how many P4 they have issued in the passing month. They send out most p3 in June and July! I think that is a good sign. You can always hope. Who knows, they might finish sending out Aug. and Sep. before X'mas.

 

Good luck to all!

 

Anne

[lele]

I am glad to see that they seem to be speeding up. However, from what I have read, I can not understand why they still handle such a small number of applications. If they really have 10 VOs who can give an interview each day, and if each interview takes 15 minutes, and interviews are given for 4 hours a day (so that other work can be done besides the interviews) then that is a total of 160 people a day being interviewed for Immigrant Visas. I am not sure what percentage of this are people going in for marriage based visas, as compared with other family IR visas, H1B or other excellent person work visas, other work visas, or adoption visas. However, I would think that 160 people a day, if they worked for 20 days a week (includes many holidays) would be as many as 3200 people a month. Are there really more than 19,000 people in the backlog which causes a 6 month wait to occur????

 

I am sure that the current VOs are working hard. And I am sure that if they were given more help that it would certainly help the process. I wish that this could be done. There are other staff in china at other consulates. Could they not just dedicate 100% of GZ to doing IV's and make all of the people for short term visas go to Shanghai or Chengdu? This would definitely help the understaffing issue.

 

However, all of this aside, the numbers seem not to add up to me. Assuming 3200 a month, and assuming that only 20% are marriage based, this would mean about 640 a month, or roughly 21 a day. Are they really interviewing this many people every day and that we just have such a small sample size that we are not getting the full picture?

 

If someone had more information on this, it would be most appreciated.

 

Good luck to everyone, and may those of us who are in love and who are not able to be together, and those of us who are worked hard and not given the resources that we need, granted the extra resources and fortune so that we may all live happier and better lives!

 

Ok, sorry to end on such a sappy note!