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The Broncos had an 8-8 season because of a string of miraculous comebacks from their rookie quarterback. At the core they're really not too different than the 4-12 team that they were last season.

Jesus dragged them as far as he could.

Brady and the Patriots don't need any help to win.

Tebow and the Broncos are gonna have to have a little divine intervention.

Tim Tebow is in the apple of gods eye and shall remain there at least throughtout the playoffs.

I flew to guangzhou for the interview with a one way ticket. It was 6 days after being approved at the interview that we finally got the passport back with visa in. I would of liked to have left sooner, but that's the breaks.

We flew back together on another set of (very expensive) one way tickets.

Xufang went to talk to the guy who gives out the 10,000 RMB grant money. He said that he had the money to give out for just this sort of situation, but said he wouldn't for her because she wasn't related to him.

We were approved on July 20 and are Visa was at China Post in Guangzhou on July 26.

There is a little counter with a China Post lady working it on the fifth floor. When your visa is approved, you can take your pink slip there and fill out an EMS slip. The lady will help you out and you pay the postage to her. It's 20 RMB to have it sent to the China Post in Guangzhou. The actual post office where you go to get the visa package is a good distance away from the consulate and on lesser traveled road. They keep the visa packages on a little wheeled cart. You can go to the counter and ask if yours is there. There wasn't ever very many other people around when we went. They have a list of names and GUZ numbers of the visa packages that have arrived, so you can look and see if your fiance is on it. The list is printed from some dot matrix printer somewhere. There is a map with the consulate, the CITIC bank, and the China Post office on it. I've seen it around the forums a lot. It's also probably on the GUZ website.

We were approved on July 20 and we picked the visa up at china post on July 26. We had been checking at the counter everyday and it wasn't ready on July 25. I bought one way tickets from Korean Air on July 26 to depart on July 29 to Las Vegas for $1284 a piece. Those were the cheapest available, but they turned out to be pretty good. We had an 8 hour layover in Seoul and are POE was Las Vegas. Seoul is the best looking airport that I've ever seen and our plane was the only one passing through immigration and customs so everything was easy.

hi Matt,

We posted the P3 off on 6/15/2011 and got a P4 on 7/10/11. You can call DoS(Department of State)202 663-1225. Hit 1 when you hear the first recording and then 0 at the second recording, and you'll get a real person to help you.

You can also contact the GUZ consulate here:

GUZ contact page

I think they have some sort of policy prohibiting the release of helpful information. They do give you some answer pretty quickly though.

I didn't notice any vultures, just the travel agent magpies handing out brochures to everyone. There are a lot of lines and a sign in Chinese up front saying what they are for. We got in the wrong line on interview day. The uniformed chinese guy will just tell you to get in the other line. They form lines with these aluminum barricades that they shove around. There are 3 or 4 chinese guys in uniform that move things along. They yell through a megaphone and try to keep all of the lines in single file. Eventuall they will start giving people in the line cards and sending them up to the 4th floor. Another set of guards takes over there and regulates traffic between fourth and fifth floors. On document intake day my fiance remembered that she forgot her passport just as they were moving everyone from outside to the escalator. We got back about 1:10 PM and they let her up. She was the very last person to leave the immigration area that day though; 3:30 ish I think. On interview day, she came down at 10:10.

If you want to sit down in the coffee shop on the 4th floor to wait, it will cost you 49 yuan. You get a drink, but you're really paying for the chair. The matron of the place has a limp and she like to chase people out who haven't paid the 49 yuan. 2 kids work as waiters and it's funny when someone refuses to get out of a chair and they call for the old woman.

The other guy I noticed was the chubby fuzzy bossy guard. He likes to shoo small crowds of people back five or ten feet from where they were. If you're not Chinese he'll let you stand wherever. He only herds the Chinese immigrants.

The magpies must have rented out the table nearest the escalator where potential immigrants and non-immigrant visitors come out. That's where they've set up shop.

If it's raining, everyone just stand in the rain under umbrellas until the Chinese guys motion you up. They started a little late on our interview day and it was raining.

I was suprised at how many female K1 fiance visa applicants were there and how few USA male fiances. Fang thinks that most people got pink slips. She only specifically remembers one denial.

Fang and I got the k1 visa approved with 10 months, 2 visits, and 6 photos all together. It may have been a borderline case because the VO asked a lot more questions than I have normally seen posted. I put all of the questions that Fang could remember in the consulate review section.

I'm bringing $350 to pay the fee in China. There, you pay the fee at a Chinese bank and bring the receipt to the interview. I got the $350 dollar number from the Guangzhou, China consulate website.

My fiance is from Laohekou, Hubei. She got the notary leader there to agree in principle to 500 yuan for all of the notarized certificates. She had to speak some english for him first though, and now he wants some sort of invitation letter to say why she is going to the USA. We haven't got the p4 packet yet. He also wants to have a look at me before she leaves China. He's worried that she will get into a bad situation in the USA. Her doctor also wants to meet me, so maybe we'll take a train to Hubei after the interview while the Visa is still processing. He did give her an application for some sort of 10,000 yuan grant from the chinese government for poor chinese people traveling abroad. The guy said he would have them ready two days from when he gets the invitation letter.

AS for work, I told them I'm going to China next week. I'll be back when I'm done. It went over to mixed reviews.

The Notary wanted 1000 yuan for 3 birth, 1 police, and 1 eligible to marry certificate. Fang talked him down to 500 yuan for the lot.

The leader of the notary office at my fiances Hokou wants an invitation letter before he will notarize the birth, police, and single woman certificates. Has anyone else had this happen? What do you suppose he wants?

I sent her my NVC letter saying that our case was approved and forwarded to Guangzhou. Our P4 hasn't arrived yet.

I called DoS this morning and the lady told me that my fiances appointment date is July 19. The letter was mailed on July 1. The most time I could have had was 19 days. If we had waited on the letter... who knows.

The lady was really nice. I called right at 8:30 and the whole affair lasted about 2 minutes. No waiting on hold at all.

My fiance got the certificates easy enough for free I think, but at least not much money because she never mentioned it. The Government notary guy wants 1000 yuan for his part with the documents and she thinks that 1000 yuan is too much. She wanted to do the translations herself. She's trying to browbeat him down to 500 yuan now.

Yikes!

I sent GUZ an email last week requesting the date of our interview. They said that the appointment letter had been mailed out, but wouldn't tell me the day.

I better call DOS tomorrow.

I can just imagine the conversation I'll have to have with my employer " Uhhhh... I'm going to China tommorrow. I don't know when I'll be back."

I'm from Colorado. I sent my K1 to Texas and they sent it to California. It was received in California on Feb. 10, so I'm 130 days in. I think that our interview is coming soon.

My NOA2 notice date was May 20. The NVC sent me a letter saying they were finished and posting the application on to China on June 8. I just got it in the mail today.

I met a girl from China online and went to visit her in Guangzhou for 17 days laste December. We filed a K-1 on Feb. 10. She should have the P3 packet any day now and so I'll expect our interview to come up in August. My second visit to China will be for the interview. I'll let you know how it goes.

Make sure and get at least 5 pictures together while you are there. I only have two and it's got me a little worried. I didn't realize I should have been collecting evidence on my vacation.