linchen23@comcast

Hi everyone! I am wondering if anyone has encountered this situation and what your suggestions are. I am a US citizen sponsoring my parents. They immigrated from China to Australia in the 80s, so are missing a number of official documents including No police records from the Chinese Notary office. The list of required documents indicated in the official website doesn't apply to them since they didn't have a temporary visa when they lived there, nor still hold a residence card... The companies we contacted that deals with getting notary documents for people would not even start the process since documents are not obtainable. Any suggestions as to what to do next? Thank you!

Hi everyone! I am sponsoring my parents to come to the US and their interview has been set up for the end of the month in Sydney, Australia. I just got a notice today indicating that Sydney Consulate is requesting Birth Certificate and police records. Also, on their website, you can't replace those documents like what you did during the process, I guess you'd have to upload it through the additional document section? Has anyone encountered this before? Should I upload the document or just bring supporting evidence to the interview? Also we don't have those documents since they were originally born in China over 70 years ago. I wrote a letter to explain it and it was accepted as a part of DQ. And incidentally - I know this is a question that gets asked a lot, but what supporting documents did you bring that worked for lack of Birth Certificate and police records? Records in China do not go that far back and they have not been Chinese citizens for many decades so can not go through the official process to get those documents. Thank you for your help!