Alexander B

bpierce: Thanks, and we wish you good luck with your struggles, too! What kind of updates do you receive from them, emails? We get nothing unless we send an online inquiry and get a canned response back. When I inquired in September, the administrative processing had not been updated since my previous inquiry in May.

Darnell: Thanks for the advice!

Pitaya and Ryan H: Thanks for helping me get everything in the right place.

I'm afraid CCP membership may be affecting our case, too.

Everything went relatively smoothly with our CR-1 process from our I-130 submission in January of this year to my wife’s interview at the Guangzhou consulate on April 16. Her interview went well and the officer was polite, but she was told she had to submit an additional document giving a statement about why she was a communist party member before the visa could be approved. She did so the next day, stating that her enrollment was involuntary when she was a student, and she is not an active member or even interested in politics. Ever since then, her case has been in administrative processing, and though I’ve sent brief inquiries requesting further instructions every couple months, even after passing the 150-day mark, they’ve continued to send form letter responses telling us to keep waiting. They haven’t mentioned that the CCP membership is the issue for delay, but our friends have managed to immigrate on CR-1 visas just a few months after submitting their I-130 forms, and the only difference in our situations is the party membership.

We’ve read the postings at http://candleforlove.com/forums/topic/43921-ccp-membership-issues/ which were somewhat enlightening, but we’re curious if anyone has been able to use this information to at least get some information out of the consulate as to what the delay entails and what we could do to help speed it up. Our main issue is what we have to do when the medical exam results expire, as it would be very expensive to have to go to Guangzhou and pay for that every six months until they decide to approve her visa. Does anyone know if we have to continue to update this, or do we just sit on our hands and wait? What do you think of the “contact your congressman” idea?

Hello, everyone!

My Chinese wife and I were married on September 12, 2014, and we began her CR-1 Visa process last January. Everything went smoothly enough until her interview at the Guangzhou consulate on April 16, 2015, where her interview seemed to go well, but she had to submit one more form to explain her membership in the Chinese Communist Party. She did so the next day, explaining that she was encouraged to sign up in college because she was a good student, but she is not political and has not actively participated or gained anything from the party. The document was received by the consulate and her status went to administrative processing, where it has been for over five months now. I've inquired about it online, but I only receive form letters about waiting "several weeks" for administrative processing. We've received no instructions about what to do when her medical results expire, and in fact have no idea what's going on or what we can do.

How common is such a wait after the interview, given that there was such a short wait before it?

Does it seem likely that the communist status is the main thing holding up the process?

Is there anything constructive we can do besides sit and wait for a response from them?

Thanks for your help!