mashume

Greetings to all

We were approved! Well, my wife was. ;-) It wouldn't have happened without all your help. Thank you!!!

Now for a question... Do we need to go first to the address we listed in the US for the paperwork? Or can we file a change of address before we arrive (for the welcome letter and related documentation to arrive at)? I know that after we arrive we'll have to file change of address forms when we move...

Anyone out there with experience in NOT going where you told the consulate you were intending to go when you applied for the visa?

-mashume

apologies in advance if I've (again) put this in the wrong place)

Hello,

Anyone with experiences / opinions of where to stay for the interview at Guangzhou?

walking distance to interview site preferable, clean would be nice :-)

-mashume

Hi there,

hope I've got this in the right place...

My wife has her visa interview at Guangzhou on March 11 and we need to get her medical examination taken care of. We live in Shanghai, but have heard reports that the examiners in Guangzhou are much better. Guangzhou examination would entail additional travel expense (hotels for extra days) as well as more time away from shanghai (and work for me). Is Guangzhou that much better, or should we go locally?

-mashume

Greetings all and thanks for your help getting this far...

We have our interview date in Guangzhou! and so we've been getting everything ready for that. Questions:

1. Some people posting on Chinese language boards say that the date and time given on the interview letter is a time for my wife to drop off her information and the following day will be the actual face-to-face with a consular officer. Is this correct? We're planning travel and it'd be nice to know what's up. I can't tell if this is different for different visas (she's IR-1), or what.

2. Showing intent to re-establish domicile. Documents and concerns:

* I have a lease agreement with my mother for an apartment to move into. This is also the location the green card will be sent to.

* I have asked for moving quotes from several international movers. Print and take to the interview.

* I have filed income taxes from said address for the last three years.

* Washington state has no personal income tax to file (I think - though I've never actually _lived_ there).

* I do not own a car (been in China 10 years), no insurance on a car, no drivers licence or other state issued id

* I have applications in to graduate schools, but the interview came so early that I have not received notification of acceptance from any of them.

* My parents have both given me i-864 forms as co-sponsors and should provide enough financial support.

What else can I do?

3. Any other advice on passing the interview at Guangzhou would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Hello everyone,

I'm confused. I am the US Citizen, we have been granted our initial petition and are gathering documents for packet 3 to send to GuangZhou. I teach in China and thus have no US income, nor do I maintain a permanent residence there. I've been in mainland china for 10 years continuously this march.

My parents have agreed to sponsor my wife financially (I-864 forms). Both qualify for domicile and income.

I read something somewhere however that the petitioner must be domiciled. Is this correct? I am clearly not.

How do I put together our packet 3 correctly showing support?

Thank you for your kind help,

Seth

Greetings all,

My wife and I have made it through packet two and received the notice of packet three, now to collect documents and such to prepare for the interview in GuanZhou.

BUT...

We have to move. We did DCF via post through BeiJing. Whom to I need to mail and what forms do I file to change our mailing address in Shanghai? We're not leaving the country, but simply moving across town.

Sorry for the lack of eloquence in my writing, the moving truck arrives this weekend and we're only mid-packing. Lease (and key to current post box) will be ours only through the end of this month, so expediency is paramount.

Thank you for your help,

Seth and Rebecca

P.S. We never received packet 1. Is this going to be a problem? There were issues with people stealing mail at the time it should have arrived. We received approval as immediate relative and then packet three telling us what to bring to GuangZhou (We haven't compleeted getting all the paper for that together yet.)

First Posting, been reading here abouts for a while...

Question is this: Our marriage certificate (married in 2009 in PRC) is in the form of a small red book roughly 6 pages long plus cover. On a single two-page spread is all the pertinent information (ID numbers, names, dates, photos, chop (stamped seal) etc... the other pages contain information about Chinese law regarding marriages and such things.

How many of these pages need to be translated for inclusion with an I-130?

Thanks for all your help so far,

Mashume