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Darnell has the best advice. B2 visas are almost entirely discretionary, and a consular officer can give almost any reason for denying one. In China, B2 visas are denied far more often than they are approved, so it wouldn't look the least bit unusual if he was denied. Unfortunately, having money can make a big difference. The most common reason for denial is lack of strong ties that would compel the applicant to return without overstaying. Having money and being well connected is a big part of that.

If he manages to get a tourist visa then have the local cops on speed dial. One incident of domestic violence is all it would take to have him booted from the US and have his tourist visa revoked. It may even be enough to have him determined to be inadmissible to the US thereafter.

I actually have followed Darnell's advice and have found a phone number that I can call for just this type of situation, now all I have to do is wait for the correct time to call. I honestly hate to take such a drastic measure, but I fear I have been left with no other option. Thank you for your insights in to this

If he is qualified for a visa, then he is qualified for a visa....it's not as if he would answer questions that relate to the issues above....our embassies receive tons of 'poison pen' letters, but who can say with a certainty that all of these are accurate? Why would someone at the embassy believe you versus the applicant? Your 'word' about something is ...well,...just words. Without proof, what do you have?

This is precisely why I created this topic, to find out 'without proof, what do you have'. And indeed I do have some steps I can take that I have found through this discussion.

Again, thank you everyone who responded with help and advice.

limit your google search to SITE searches, where the SITE is a US Consulate/Embassy in China (there are 5)

Thank you very much.

So with what you have posted, does he knows where the mother is stayinh, here in the USA. The US is a large country, would he be able to locate her, if he gets a visa? Why go thru all of this trouble.

Unfortunately he knows our apartment area, all that is missing is the apartment number. I have already instructed our apartment offices to not give out our information to anyone regardless of reason presented except for our listed emergency contacts, however I do not trust them to adhere to my request fully. As for why go through all of the trouble, he has never been the same after he had a brain aneurysm two years ago. It's as if his sense of right and wrong were lost somehow, now all he seems to function on is anger, rage, jealousy, etc. He is unfortunately not well in the head, although good enough to trick those he wants for a while if he knows what he wants.

Isn't the mother going back to China, she arrived on a tourist visa. What will she do when she arrives back in China, if you'll get invovle in his visa process?

She will be returning but to a different city very far away, until we have her whole ordeal finished to get here permanently. She feels safer in China actually, I assume because she understands life there infinitely better, but she will not be prepared to move to this new city for about another 2 months.

As for Third Party Correspondence, I am not sure what that means exactly but I will begin to google it and try to gain some knowledge of what that might mean, thank you.

Hello all,

I'm a long time reader, infrequent poster. Thank you in advance for reading my post and any advice you can send my way.

My wife came to the USA earlier this year and our process is finally over, for the moment (hurray!). However a new process has begun for us; bringing her mother here to live with us. I am not having any difficulties with her process, in fact she is already here with us as of last week. My problem and question has to do with something different, and probably very difficult to answer.. She is actually leaving her extremely abusive partner of over 30 years (they never married for some strange reason). They are from mainland China, btw. It has been made known to us that he is going crazy back home and is threatening to travel here to confront her and drag her back to China. Now, for starters, just to get my wife's mother a tourist visa on her initial trip here, it took a lot of documents from myself as well as my father, who acted as an additional sponsor. To me, I don't see how he could get his own tourist visa without my help, but my wife and her mother are convinced that since his sister and his sister's husband in China are rich and somewhat politically connected, that they can help him circumvent this process and get him a tourist visa, if they choose to help him.

To me, this sounds crazy because I don't see how it can be as simple as some money to sway the American Embassy...I also don't think his sister and her husband would help him come over here in what could only be seen as a path to a violent confrontation between the two that would result in him being thrown in jail/deported, but they are taking his side in this situation saying that even if a husband beats hife wife, it's still family and family stays together (give me a break!), so maybe they would be that ridiculous, I just don't know anymore and am worried.. Forgive me if I am rambling, there is a lot going on in my mind right now...

So, to get to my actual question. Is there any way that I could possibly make it more difficult for him to obtain a tourist visa? Like warn someone via phone call to the US consulate? Anything at all, we are desperate to not have to live the nightmare that this whole situation could become. He is an older man and I know I can protect them if I am around but if I am at work and god forbid he just showed up at the door from a taxi cab without me around...what can be done? He is not coming here for sight seeing..this is serious. I just don't know what to do.

Thank you so much again for any help and advice, my family sincerely appreciates it.

Steabba, thank you for your reply. I hope it doesn't come across that we have no desire to ever live in America, that is not the case. Specifically, we are both in Japan with a Work Visa and are under work contracts which end pretty much at the same time of summer next year. It would be a wonderful convenience to finish out our contracts while still moving along to completion of the whole process, and move back to the US permanently once our jobs are over. If that's not possible, we'll just have to break the contracts I guess, but I hope it's not the case. In hindsight I guess I should have waited longer to begin this process but I was worried about how long it would all take and jumped the gun.

Hello all,

My fiancee's I-129 was recently approved, so we are now really focusing on what our moves will be when we are, god willing, approved at the interview. We both work in Japan, which poses somewhat of a problem possibly. We are planning to go get married in the USA, however is it possible to return to Japan to continue our jobs there? It's a scary thought to have to try to find another job in this uncertain economy..I'm hoping it is possible for her to continue her work in Japan, just as an American instead of Chinese, however I haven't found any information on this subject so far. Thank you for any answers or a point in the right direction.

Hello all,

My fiancee is trying to get her police record from her hometown of Dalian, China. She's currently not there however, so she has only been able to call the police office there to try to ask what she needs to bring (Chinese I.D. or if passport is okay, since her I.D. expired 2-3 years ago). They keep telling her they don't know what she's talking about and that they don't know what she means about police records...We're going there at the end of June but only for two days so we want to make sure we know how to get this form before we leave. Are we not asking the right place? Would it go by another name maybe?? This is very confusing for us, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you-

I haven't been able to find much information on exactly what goes on at the medical exam. Did I miss it? If so, can someone point me in the right direction? If not, my question is regarding what medical records they need or gather themselves. Do they require or gather records from all exams and hospital visits a person has had while in Japan? Moreover, my fiancee is a Chinese national who has worked in Japan for 8 years; does she need medical records from China? Do they gather those records themselves? Thank you in advance for any assistance.

Thank you for such quick responses. It sounds like the smartest route would be for her to hang tough and renew her work contract and stay in Japan (her contracts are in 3 month increments) I guess. Nobody said this was going to be easy and fun, right? haha

Thanks again!

If she does that, she will need to go through the embassy in Japan then.

It actually is "easy" and it will be "fun" when the person comes here to marry you

Excellent point, sir Keeping eye on the future goal!

Thank you for such quick responses. It sounds like the smartest route would be for her to hang tough and renew her work contract and stay in Japan (her contracts are in 3 month increments) I guess. Nobody said this was going to be easy and fun, right? haha

Thanks again!

Hello everyone. This is my first post here, and I must say that I am so happy to have found this amazing gathering of people and information. My thanks in advance for any help you can offer me.

My situation is as follows. I am engaged to a Chinese national who has been living and working in Japan for the past 8 years. I just sent off my very first packet (I-129F, etc), so we're barely getting started. Her work contract as well as her visa is ending the last day of June. She does not want to renew her job contract, and she doesn't want to go back to China either. I would be more than happy for her to come here on tourist visa and stay with me while we go through this process, however I am not sure if it is a good idea. Is it even possible? I have read on other sites that it would look very bad on us, like we are cheating the system..is this true? There is also the problem of her having to leave and re-enter before her 90 day visa expires, since the K-1 process will undoubtedly not be completed.

Does anyone have knowledge in this area or experiences? Thank you again for any knowledge you can share with me.