Less than two weeks notice for Consulate Intervieww?

[FoundNanning 0]

Actually, I meant your best guess for total time until I GET the appointment date (least, most likely, longest), assuming I send I-130 this week and do EP, again, assuming all goes smoothly.

25 to 45 days.

That is as much advance notice as yer gonna get.

HINT - study the timeticks for EP in yer other topic.

[ifearyeti 0]

I called DoS this morning and the lady told me that my fiances appointment date is July 19. The letter was mailed on July 1. The most time I could have had was 19 days. If we had waited on the letter... who knows.

The lady was really nice. I called right at 8:30 and the whole affair lasted about 2 minutes. No waiting on hold at all.

[Darnell 8,478]

Actually, I meant your best guess for total time until I GET the appointment date (least, most likely, longest), assuming I send I-130 this week and do EP, again, assuming all goes smoothly.

We've gone over that, as well, in one of yer prior topics.

[FoundNanning 0]

@ifearyeti: CONGRATS & Best of Luck on the Interview! Please let us know how it goes!

A few questions: 1) Where in China is your fiancé? 2) How did she make out with the Police Cert., etc. translations? Did they charge 1,000 yuan? She doesn't have much time now to get the certified translations. 3) Did you let your work know/are you going to go?

@Darnell: Brain dead yesterday from too little sleep/too much celebration. Got you mixed up with someone on another Forum.

Yes, I DO have your estimates, THANKS! On another note: have you/will you update your EP Guide?

Edited July 5, 2011 by LeonS

[ifearyeti 0]

My fiance is from Laohekou, Hubei. She got the notary leader there to agree in principle to 500 yuan for all of the notarized certificates. She had to speak some english for him first though, and now he wants some sort of invitation letter to say why she is going to the USA. We haven't got the p4 packet yet. He also wants to have a look at me before she leaves China. He's worried that she will get into a bad situation in the USA. Her doctor also wants to meet me, so maybe we'll take a train to Hubei after the interview while the Visa is still processing. He did give her an application for some sort of 10,000 yuan grant from the chinese government for poor chinese people traveling abroad. The guy said he would have them ready two days from when he gets the invitation letter.

AS for work, I told them I'm going to China next week. I'll be back when I'm done. It went over to mixed reviews.

[boogie 0]

gsxra's China Consulate Review dated June 21, 2011 states that he got less than 2 weeks notice for his wife's consulate interview. Is this usual/possible?

You lucky as i have my letter sent to Beijing from GZ on 23rd of June and it got to BJ on 24th and it was just a miracle i checked the mailbox that day and i saw it!!i rushed to do the medical that same day which was friday 24th and got my results on Monday 27th and leave BJ for GZ same day in the evening,got to GZ at 12midnight and rush to submit next day 28th!!

submitted my documents on 28th and fingerprint and the following day 29th i had my interview.It was approved though but just to tell you how stressed it was for me.In your own case you got TIME!!!!

[MuDelphi 159]

My fiance is from Laohekou, Hubei. She got the notary leader there to agree in principle to 500 yuan for all of the notarized certificates. She had to speak some english for him first though, and now he wants some sort of invitation letter to say why she is going to the USA. We haven't got the p4 packet yet. He also wants to have a look at me before she leaves China. He's worried that she will get into a bad situation in the USA. Her doctor also wants to meet me, so maybe we'll take a train to Hubei after the interview while the Visa is still processing. He did give her an application for some sort of 10,000 yuan grant from the chinese government for poor chinese people traveling abroad. The guy said he would have them ready two days from when he gets the invitation letter.

Ah, the local administrator. These guys, in the small towns, are generally idiots. We had a similar problem with the local notary, and went to the larger city nearby. They called and straightened out the small town guy pretty hard, and when we went back, they supplied the documents we needed. Letter of invitation and having a look at you is absurd.

[ifearyeti 0]

Xufang went to talk to the guy who gives out the 10,000 RMB grant money. He said that he had the money to give out for just this sort of situation, but said he wouldn't for her because she wasn't related to him.

Edited September 11, 2011 by ifearyeti

[Loueikun 5]

Still waiting for any updates from DOS and GUZ, DOS says GUZ has but GUZ says no, I saw in another forum that someone got the appointment letter while the GUZ email inquiry still responded that "it was still in transit" Hope that never happens to us.

[Loueikun 5]

Updates, Still have not gotten the P4 in mail, but already know the interview date via DOS and also GUZ emailing me the P4 letter a while back,

Well today GUZ out of the blue actually called my Wife to just confirm the interview date.

I never knew GUZ would actually call people to confirm the interview dates.

[Pitaya 2,577]

Hey it seems that all of us are doing the trans-Pacific shuffle... the main questions are: How soon? and How many times? Ah yes, dancing to the beat of their drum.

But, the result will be worth it? RIGHT?

Hang in there, remember it is a marathon, not a sprint....

Wishing all good fortune.

YMMV,

The B of A&B