Administrative Processing Time? Guangzhou China

[Jeff R 0]

I wanted to get others experience with Administrative processing times at the consulate in Gaungzhou. My wife had her interview on July 10th and the visa was approved. We shipped the passport to the consualte and it arrived on July 12th. Since then it has been in Administrative Processing. They have not asked for any documents or any other needed information.

Does this mean that it is just in line for processing and they have not gotten to it? I have heard that it takes longer in GZ to process. If anyone has experience with this we would appreciate your thoughts. We are scheduled to leave end of August so want this to be finished ASAP.

Thanks so much.

[Darnell 8,478]

queues abound.

[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures to China regional forum; OP is asking for country specific experiences.

[dhr3 0]

We've been in AP since our interview on June 11. (but our case is it a little different that yours, since we had to send another police certificate, and they kept her passport) Sometimes when I call DOS, the operators say to give it another week, and sometimes they say to give it three months. The most useful information I've gleaned from it is that "guangzhou has a heavy backlog" so it can take a while. But it's weird they didn't give you any reason for the AP and still had to send the passport.

For our case, the consulate received our additional documents July 8, and the status on the CEAC website changed from "ap" to "issued" on August 7. Based on that I'd say give it a month since you sent in the passport, but its just a guess and probably affected a lot by the recent move and whatever details of the case. If she has a sensitive job or something like that, they may need to do a background check which can take an extra month or so.

[JD & Coconut 35]

We've been in AP since our interview on June 11. (but our case is it a little different that yours, since we had to send another police certificate, and they kept her passport) Sometimes when I call DOS, the operators say to give it another week, and sometimes they say to give it three months. The most useful information I've gleaned from it is that "guangzhou has a heavy backlog" so it can take a while. But it's weird they didn't give you any reason for the AP and still had to send the passport.

For our case, the consulate received our additional documents July 8, and the status on the CEAC website changed from "ap" to "issued" on August 7. Based on that I'd say give it a month since you sent in the passport, but its just a guess and probably affected a lot by the recent move and whatever details of the case. If she has a sensitive job or something like that, they may need to do a background check which can take an extra month or so.

Why did you have to send another police report?

[dhr3 0]

Why did you have to send another police report?

They said it was valid just in her hometown and not all China -- I guess, especially in the smaller towns, you have to be very specific about the wording on there since there can be lots of different kinds of police certificates and no official way to write them

[JD & Coconut 35]

Sounds like the issue my fiancee is having with her unmarried certificate. Jilin only issued her one from 2009 to today, and it appears she now needs to get one from Changhun (where she went to college) and Shandong (where she worked for several years and over 1,400 KM away) also. Still trying to confirm this with the consulate.

Her police certificate however, does not seem to have this problem.

[Daveykins 17]

We and another couple were approved on August 6th. Still says AP and passport w/ "post" whatever that means for both of us. I'm sure it has something to do with CGI Stanley's involvement.

We're both calling almost every day. Not sure what to think at this point. 2 weeks is on Tuesday so hopefully it'll be issued by then.