Ying's Lao Gong

On the evening of the 30th we flew to our POE at EWR. It was a much better experience than I expected. We got a pleasant officer at Passport Control who was Indian and perhaps knew the immigration ordeal we had gone through. He asked me how long we had been married and why was our CR-1 package so large. I told him I didn't know it was big or small. He took Tai Tai to be finger printed and told me to collect our luggage and wait downstairs for her. It was a long wait, but only a blink compared to the 6 hour interview process in Guangzhou...our flight landed at 1636 and she exited the USCIS bat cave at 1800. We are very relieved the 450 days of hoop jumping have ended. She seems very happy listening to the Hoot Owls and Frogs far from the city noise of, Fuzhou. Life is good.

From a few blocks away it looked as though we would be the first arrivals. But there were about 60 ahead of us as we queued up at 0630 for Ying's 0715 appointment at the US Consulate this morning. By the time they began clearing people to go in there were >300. Ying, got number 259. I hung out at the 7-Eleven next door and in the forth floor coffee shop watching people come out all morning. She sent word out with a friend she made just before noon that she'd be awhile longer...at 1230 she made her grand arrival flaunting her pink paperwork and a big smile, what a hugh relief this was. There was five other US men supporting their women and all of the women like Ying had a ton of documents with them. We've learned from others to take the "Kitchen Sink". Besides her interview with a Visa Officer she had the brand new experience of speaking to an African American. She said he was a handsome young man, nice and spoke very well and remember she's a Chinese teacher. He sounded very thorough asking several questions and reading our E-mails, he examined my passport and read our Evolution of Relationship. I'm glad now that I took the time to write the EOR and include all of things that seemed insignificant like my cover pages that he loved. Also going to the Citizens Hour yesterday helped by me having the Visa Officer notate that I was present. We both awoke before the alarm this morning not wanting breakfast or coffee, but only to successfully jump this last hurdle. It has been a long 14 months, tedious and disheartening at times but it paid off today, To celebrate we walked a few blocks from the Consulate to a very fancy Thai Restaurant and had a fantastic Papaya Salad, Thai Eggplant, Shrimp Pad Thai and cold Singhai beer (...here we are in Guangzhou which is famous for the best in cooking and we go to eat, Thai instead)...life is good. Ying's Lao Gong

Congratulations to those who've received their NOA2! Got our NOA1 on April 15th and like you, Sweetcitywife, nothing else yet. Must be any day now, don't you think?

I ran across a web site a couple weeks ago that said filers on the 2nd week of April would be approved in 114 days....I fell over when I received the e-mail

and they hit it exactly....I wish I could give you the URL but I didn't save it, sorry.

did it say when may filers would be approved?

It could have but I didn't see it, sorry.

The right wing fanatics know how gullible Usonians are to scare tactic and threats....they do not think for themselves...they let Rush and other addicts think for them.

The US easily finds money to invade small countries and to engage in continual war,

but can't find money for free education or national health care....shame, shame.

Congratulations to those who've received their NOA2! Got our NOA1 on April 15th and like you, Sweetcitywife, nothing else yet. Must be any day now, don't you think?

I ran across a web site a couple weeks ago that said filers on the 2nd week of April would be approved in 114 days....I fell over when I received the e-mail

and they hit it exactly....I wish I could give you the URL but I didn't save it, sorry.

My I-130 was received on 14 April and it was just approved on 06 August, 114 days... I checked the web site daily, but no touches.