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From the Chinese Consulate in Chicago.
 
Foreigners with valid visas issued before March 28, 2020 will be allowed to enter China.
 
http://chicago.china-consulate.gov.cn/eng/zytz/202303/t20230316_11042472.htm
 
 

Received notice green card sent on 03/07/24 and received physical green card 03/09/24.

Filed March 2022, CSC.
Received text today 2/21/24 that new card was being produced. No interview. Biometrics re-used July 2022. 

Just to post a little update to help anyone else going through this
 
Along with all other mentioned evidence in original post we sent:
 
Evidence from when I(beneficiary) arrived to the current date of us submitting the RFE
Bank statements as suggested by people on this forum
We cut down the photo amount by a little bit but still sent a decent amount of pictures
We sent in another marriage certificate just to be safe
 
 
USCIS received our RFE on January 23rd Started reviewing the evidence Yesterday January 25th Just got approved and Approval notice Document on MyUscis Account today!  
Thank you to everyone who helped us!

We received the Biometric Notice and i-797 NOA on in the mail on 12/20. Very happy to have that extension letter since the family has some travel planned early next year.

Thought I would jump in here as an ROC filer
 
11/29 Filed
12/4 Received at Tempe, AZ lockbox
12/8 Check cashed
 
Wife is visiting family at the moment so I will have to wait to see if she got a text or email confirmation.
 

Thought I would jump in here as an ROC filer
 
11/29 Filed
12/4 Received at Tempe, AZ lockbox
12/8 Check cashed
 
Wife is visiting family at the moment so I will have to wait to see if she got a text or email confirmation.
 

This may be the only actual English-language announcement that they've posted so far. I haven't seen it on the consulate web sites, except in Chinese -

China to ease visa, entry policies
Foreigners with valid visas issued before March 28, 2020 will be allowed to enter China, as the country is adjusting its visa and entry policies to facilitate travel across the border.
Visa-free policies will be resumed for entry to the southern island province of Hainan and cruise tour groups at Shanghai ports, said the National Immigration Administration.
Visa-free entry to the southern province of Guangdong will be restored for tour groups of foreigners from Hong Kong and Macao, and a similar mechanism will be reinstated for tour groups from ASEAN countries to enter Guilin in the southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The policies will come into force on Wednesday, according to immigration authorities. 

https://worldfreedomalliance.org/au/news/the-war-on-the-unvaccinated-was-lost-and-we-should-all-be-very-thankful-for-that/

When I submitted my RFE response online I never received any response from USCIS.  The case status changed to RFE response received and then I heard nothing for 3 months when they notified us that her biometrics was scheduled.
 

Study Finds 97% Of Statements Following 'Experts Say' Are Completely Made Up
 
U.S.—In a groundbreaking study of over 328 million statements given by experts over the last 10 years, researchers discovered that 97% of those statements were totally made up.
 
"According to our research, whenever you see the phrase 'experts say' followed by some truth claim, you can be 97% sure that statement was literally pulled out of thin air, or maybe sometimes out of someone's butt," said Dr. Smagbord Luugbjörn, an expert. "As it turns out, there's really no agreed-upon criteria for what qualifies someone to be an expert. As a result, we have a ton of self-proclaimed 'experts' who don't know what they're talking about. That's my expert opinion, anyway. But I'm a real expert though."
The study found that 43% of experts are actually a "few fries short of a Happy Meal", while the other 54% qualify as "a few beers short of a six-pack."
"None of them are the sharpest knives in the drawer," said Luugbjörn.
 
https://babylonbee.com/news/study-finds-97-of-statements-following-experts-say-are-completely-made-up
 

The poll was conducted by Rasmussen, not Jones

The poll was conducted by Rasmussen, not Jones

The poll was conducted by Rasmussen, not Jones

We just had this issue when preparing my wife' AOS packet and the local civil surgeon was very helpful.  You are good on the varicella and MMR vaccine for now, just need to show that the cycle was completed at the interview.  The Tdap is the issue, she was given a waiver for the K1 visa because the vaccine was not available. (My wife had the same issue with both the Tdap and MMR.)  But she is still expected to get the Tdap vaccine for her green card, the waiver for the K1 visa does not carry over to the green card application.  The civil surgeon let us go the local government health department to get the vaccines, bring the proof of vaccination and an I-693 with parts 1-5 completed to his office, he reviewed the vaccination papers and filled out parts 7 and 10 on the I-693, and sealed it in an envelop to send with her packet just like when she had her full medical exam.

Our visa  was approved yesterday, we're so happy, covid 19 made this process a crazy and long one but God will surely see us through. All the best to each and everyone of us.

You are confusing what you submit to USCIS when you file the i-129f and what you need to take to the interview. My fiance was interviewed in March in Guangzhou and I assure you the I-134 was required.  All K1 visas are processed by the consulates Immigration Unit because it is implied they will adjust status after you get married, despite being a non-immigrant visa it is treated as an immigrant visa.
 
As for the expiration date, the USCIS website says you can continue using the 2-13-19 edition until a new one is published despite the expiration date.  I used the expired edition for my fiance's interview without any issues.

Congrats to everyone!!  Tons of IR-1 AND K-1 VJ member approvals last month! 
 
Just a few of the 171 VJ member approvals from 55 countries, shown below!
 

 
K1 processing timelines seem to be flattening out (great news)!
 

 
The same seems to be true for IR-1 visas:
 

 
Here is the entire list March approval list:
 
https://www.visajourney.com/content/visa-approvals-last-month/
 

We paid the fee by going to schedule appointment > immigrant visa. You can then pay the fee without actually scheduling an appointment.

To get the confirmation page we went to schedule appointment > Immigrant Visa-Scheduled by NVC-Registration Only. For some reason it doesn't ask you to pay the fee when you choose this option.

Just to post an update here...just received the email notification for scheduled interview on Apr 21th..

I am a round 2 plaintiff and the Guangzhou consulate did the same thing for us, we got an email on Feb 16 informing us that her interview had been scheduled for March 3

So happy to be in the final leg of this part of our journey, my fiance received her visa on Thursday and I went into express mode making travel arrangements.  We will spend 14 days in Abu Dhabi, UAE to satisfy the China travel restriction and then enter America together right after Easter.

Congrats!  Hoping it will not take long to process everything, like you I am just waiting for visa in hand to make travel arrangements, we decided on Dubai, do our 14 days and fly to Chicago.

It took a couple days for State to send an updated list to the embassies after the judge officially added us in round 2.