Guangzhou Interview Dates?

[Daveykins 17]

My Fiancee has told me that after she's paid the interview fee and set the document return address on ustraveldocs it's saying that no appointment times are available.

Has anyone else had any luck booking a k-1 interview appointment for sometime in July? I assume the Consulate move has something to do with why no appointment times are available? Does anyone know when more appointment times will be available?

I've emailed the consulate to ask, but wanted to post on here to see if anyone knows more.

[NikLR 13,227]

*** moved to China regional forum ***

[Pitaya 2,577]

The impending GUZ consulate move is up in the air. You have the best idea, contact the consulate and find out the latest as to what is going on. When you find out, please post back with the latest news.

Good luck with getting and having a fruitful interview, and the weather this time of year in Guangzhou.

[Daveykins 17]

Thanks. I'll post what they tell me when I hear back from them probably next week since it's already Saturday in GUZ.

The weather I'm not looking forward to, but at least I'll with my cutie so won't be too bad.

[Q&R 1]

I am having the same problem. I have been waiting days since we have paid our fee and were emailed by the embassy that we could schedule the appointment.

I really have no idea what is going on and it is becoming very very frustrating...especially after we had to wait so long from immigration originally. Always such great timing!!

[JustFred 0]

Yup lots of people waiting . . .

Posted just the other day.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/437043-scheduling-the-interview-using-cgi-stanley/

[Daveykins 17]

Sigh. Thanks Fred for posting that link. I didn't see that until now. Seems we're in for a long wait. Everyone, be sure to keep pressure on the Consulate to open more dates!

[rawlsca 2]

I'm actually glad to hear that I'm not the only one seeing a blank calendar. I've been seeing it for 3 days now. When I first saw it, I was very frustrated because we have been urgently waiting for our P4 communication, and when we finally got it, we thought the end of our separation would be very soon. Desperate to find out if the blank calendar wasn't just a computer glitch on my end, I searched for a number to call and found one here: http://ustraveldocs....n-contactus.asp

I called the US number and, amazingly, a real person answered. "Jen" was her name. She went to the calendar page on her computer and said she saw the same thing. She was very kind in her speech, but I could tell she was not very knowledgeable about the inside information as to why there were no available dates. I hope there's no political "curtain" being raised in China causing this interview scheduling problem. The news about the stability of China's economy and the ill will between the US and China recently has me somewhat worried that this scheduling delay might be related. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I can't live without my future wife, so I feel a little panicky about the whole thing. If anyone has any information that can rule out the political "curtain" possibility, please let me know.

Also, before we ever saw the blank calendar, my fiancee had a terrible time paying the visa fee. I don't have a Chinese debit card, so she had to pay it herself (with money I gave her during my fifth and last trip a month and a half ago). She has two Chinese debit cards and neither one of them worked when she tried to pay using their online method. She went to her bank to find out why and they told her there's nothing wrong, that she should be able to do online transactions. She doesn't have a printer, so printing the "advice slip containing CGI Reference Number" as instructed before going to a CITIC bank to pay in person would have been very difficult for her. So I suggested she just go to the CITIC bank around the corner from her home and explain her situation. Fortunately they went ahead and allowed her to pay the visa fee without the document, so she gave them the CGI REFERENCE NUMBER I gave to her and paid the visa fee. When she returned to our video chat , I went to the "Confirm Receipt" page, just before the calendar step, to enter the receipt number and found that the CITIC bank that she paid the visa fee to had already entered the receipt number for us. So I jumped to the calendar page and saw the infamous message "There are currently no appointments available". That started our multi-hour panic session. The worst 5 minutes of that time was when we decided to confirm that I had given her the correct CGI REFERENCE NUMBER. I had, in fact, given her the correct number, but here's what happened next. Since I was already on the calendar page, I decided to go back to the page that showed me this number. It showed no fee was owed and displayed what I thought was the same number it had given me before, 620114496050. But little did I know at the time, the number being displayed was 620014496050. The 4th digit had been changed from "1" to "0", but I did not know this number was different, so I told her the number I saw and the 5 minute horror began! It wasn't the number I had given her before, so she immediately screamed and started crying. We video chat 3 or 4 times a day, so we could also see each other. My heart was broken to see her crying like this. It was the first time I had seen her so unhappy. It was terrible for both of us. The bank had warned her several times that if the number was wrong, they could not give her a refund. In her view 1488 RMB is a lot of money and she had worked so hard to get this paid and, suddenly, we were faced with having given the bank the wrong number. After about 5 minutes of trying to figure out what to do, I decided to look at the screen shot I had saved earlier before she paid. That was when I found that the 4th digit was different. So we realized that she had given the bank the correct number after all and she began to settle down and return to normal, somewhat. She was very tired and stressed out over this whole fiasco of trying the get the visa fee paid. So was I. Being in America, all this was during the nighttime for me, so I was very tired.

Anyway, telling you VJers my story made me feel better. Again, if anyone has any information that can rule out the political "curtain" possibility, please let me know. Thanks all!

[Daveykins 17]

I'm hoping and praying it's just the Consulate move that has slowed down the appointments opening.

Rawlsca, your story sounds very similar to ours when my Fiancee realized that there were no open appointments. Thanks for sharing that.

[LianLi 1]

We're all waiting! I was so excited because we're so close then this wait...ugh... All good things come in time!

[Rob & Rachel 24]

Is anyone else getting "limit exceeded" issues?

It's been really hard to get on the site, and I think it's either from excess traffic or they are having issues at the site. Personally, I think it's from heavy traffic. Here's my reasoning:

1. Clearing cookies doesn't help, nor does incognito mode or fresh browsers.
2. Not IP logging, as have the same issue with my work computer, which I hadn't been using to login.
3. It will block you before you can login, or after, so maintaining a session won't keep you in once you are in.
4. Though it's possible it could be a combination of all of the above, it doesn't seem likely.

considering the QQ groups, and the possibility of people running scripts to check for slots, I think that it's possible that they expect a certain amount of traffic, based on the number of expected users, but with people clamoring for slots, it's doubled, or more the traffic to the site, and it's blocking a lot of it to keep the site from crashing.

[Daveykins 17]

If you login more than 15 times in 1 day and check the calendar it blocks you until the next day.

[Rob & Rachel 24]

If you login more than 15 times in 1 day and check the calendar it blocks you until the next day.

That's good to know, but I hadn't logged in near that many times (perhaps 3) and hadn't checked the calendar at all.

[Rob & Rachel 24]

If you login more than 15 times in 1 day and check the calendar it blocks you until the next day.

That's good to know, but I hadn't logged in near that many times (perhaps 3) and hadn't checked the calendar at all.

[Darnell 8,478]

Rob - perhaps it wasn't you hiking yer count? I'll suggest it was Rachel..