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Thank you SO MUCH for this info! In the meantime, my fiance has found out that to get a police record from China, he needs to show his student visa as proof that he lived there. However, since in France they revoke your old passport when you renew it, he can no longer provide the visa. Would this mean that the police certificate for China would be waived?
 
P.S. You suggested I fill out my profile, but it's already done. I see a French flag under my name on this page, and I've added all of the dates so far in the timeline.

Thanks everyone! I just updated my timeline, as it was an old one from years ago when I petitioned for my now ex-husband. My current fiancé is also French.
For my ex, I too care of all of the paperwork myself and it was a lot of work but everything went smoothly, thanks in no small part to the help I got on this forum!
I now regret hiring a lawyer at all. I was told that immigration lawyers know what they are doing and are more effective at getting the visa done as quickly as possible. I'm now learning the hard way that this isn't true. I'll be taking care of the rest of the process myself. 
BTW, aside from plane tickets, photos, hotel reservations, and passport stamps, what does everybody think about affidavits? Are they effective and worth including?
Also, I didn't save my boarding passes (stupidly). Are e-ticket confirmations sufficient, along with passport stamps?

He lived in China for a period of time and I visited him there. He has proof of that in his passport. However, I'm not sure his passport will show an entry stamp to France, as they don't stamp passports of French nationals on entry. I wonder what would be the best way to prove that he was in France when I visited him there before and after the China trip?