End of the road

[Pineau]

Shaun, good luck to you..

my status:
About 9 months and counting
Feb 22, 2011. Sent petition to USCIS
Feb 28, 2011. They cashed the check
March 2 2011. Received receit confirmation letter from USCIS.
April 3, 2011. Your Case Status: Initial Review
May 10 2011. Your Case Status: Initial Review
June 13 2011. Your Case Status: Initial Review
June 30 I received a 5 page document "request for evidence" . They want everythink they could think of to prove a bonafied marriage.
July 26 2011 Mailed respons to RFE to USCIS
August 3rd USCIS acknowledged receipt of my response and began reviewing it. They promised a reply within 60 days.
August 26 Your Case Status: Request for Evidence Response Review
September 23 2011 Your Case Status: Request for Evidence Response Review
October 8 2011. Received request for evidence for prior marriage divorce document. (already provided in previous mailing)
October 10 2011 Your Case Status:Request for Evidence Response Review

On October 24, 2011, we received your response to our request for evidence. This case is being processed at our CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER location. If you move while this case is pending, please use our Change of Address online tool to update your case with your new address or call our customer service center at 1-800-375-5283. We will notify you by mail when we make a decision or if we need something from you. You should expect to receive a written decision or written update within 60 days of the date we received your response

Nov. 16 2011 Your Case Status:Request for Evidence Response Review

[shaun]

Gerry;  Good luck to you too.

Do you remember seeing a puppy chasing it's tail.  Round and round and round it goes trying to catch it?  This is exactly how I feel in dealing with this immigration issue. 

[JamesM.Roberts]

Gerry
Sorry to hear this-I know it can be a hair pulling ordeal to say the least. I hired a lawyer...well I'm not sure if he is a real lawyer, but seems to know his stuff. He ask me to provide the following info/evidence-

Proof of meeting/relationship:
5 pictures of you two taken together better to be film-dated
Copy of flight itineraries, tickets, boarding passes, and receipts to show you were together.
Emails between you two select 5 of each（select those not mentioning about dating website）
Personal Letters (regular mails if any)
Engagement Ring receipt if any
Phone Bill if any
Flowers Order
Money remittances if you have sent money to her

This is what I sent them-

18"x18" box with copies of over
1500 e-mails from Me to Ping and Ping to Me
over 100 pages of telephone records
300 pages of instant messages from QQ
Copy of flight itineraries, tickets, boarding passes, from my two trips -not to mention all restaurant and hotel receipts
all receipts from our travels while in China
Receipts from Ping's ring and Wedding dinner
over 1000 photos of my trips (get the copies in China)
all personal letters and Western Union receipts of the monies I sent Ping
I also sent the receipt from The U.S. consulate and all the proof they had requested(One US passport style picture, 2"x2", white background, lightly print your name on the back- One copy of your U.S. birth certificate- One copy of your passport and visa to China with exit and entry stamps- Copies of documents showing that each prior marriage was legally terminated, for example divorce, death decrees)

When I went to China to marry Ping, I had two pieces of luggage -my checked bag and the bag I carried with four big binders (the big 4" ones) These binders had the originals of the above-these I left with Ping after we spent one whole day at a Chinese photo shop getting all of our photos copied and making copies of all the e-mails, phone records, ect. ect. ect. for me (to carry back to the States) I am right now preparing the fifth binder to send to Ping for her interview in three weeks. She is worried, but I told her to act American and slam the binders down on the desk and ask "Where's my Visa?"-(I know she won't do it)

I swear I am not bragging- but want any new members to know SAVE EVERYTHING -SAVE EVERYTHING -SAVE EVERYTHING
I filed May 15th (Chicago office) got a notice that it had been received and that my case had been shipped to the California Service Center. We got approved by the USCIS in 3 months -I just got the notice today that the NVC will take 3 weeks before Ping's interview in Guangzhou.

New members please remember this SAVE EVERYTHING
Give the originals to your bride, but make copies for yourself
If your not sure if it should be included...send it anyways
and keep saving everything even after you are married
and the most important thing to remember....
if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance -baffle them with your........

Good luck to you Gerry -I hope you get good news soon-I know you both deserve to be Happy



 

[Pineau]

December 10 and I just checked status. still waiting on the response review. 

1 year ago today celebrating our wedding at pizza hut.


Fiona,

 One day a year to recognize 364 other days of happiness, laughter, love and joy that you give me.
 
Thank you for everything. Thank you for being my partner, spouse, lover, and friend. No one else would understand our relationship, and no one else in this world would understand me the way you do. You are truly a blessing from God. Your love has made me a better person.

Happy Anniversary to my lovely wife.

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[john1964]

Happy anniversary to both yourself and Fiona, and I hope there are many more to come , MinYing and John.

[Arnold]

Well you two .. Happy "FIRST" year ! as you know , there has to be a first .. before there can be a "SECOND" ! Happy Anni !

[shaun]

Happy Anniversary Gerry.  I know it is difficult for you and your wife being separated right now.  You need to get back to that women.

[Jason B]

Happy Anniversary, I have everything crossed that as an anniversary gift the government will give Fiona her visa.

Cheers, Jason and Xia

[Pineau]

Many thanks. I hope so too. I am trying to stay busy. Bouncing around this new house trying to get everything put away and looking nice for their arrival. But I sure wish she were here to help decorate and go shopping for the things we need to finish the place out.

I am guessing sometime in Feb, seh will get her visa.

[Pineau]

 Our internet went down two days ago in Guangzhou. So we cant QQ chat with each other which is driving us both crazy. She has been checking all the wireless  routers in the apartment complex to see if she can find one with out security but they are all password protected. Then she says I know. I'll just go to starbucks or McDonalds and use their wifi. So off she goes with her lap top to the nearest McDonalds. We should be chatting on QQ  shortly. 

What a clever wife. She is a techno-computer geek and I like that.

[Neil]

I have yet to see a decent wifi signal in China.  I was beginning to think they use a different wavelength or something. 

[Jason B]

try starbucks they were the best we found

[shaun]

Gerry.  Suddenly I can't talk to Peggy either on the internet.  She told me her computer was broke so she took it to work and couldn't get on there either.  Do you think the internet is down throughout Guangzhou?

[Willy The Londoner]

Maybe not so much down as out for a few days.  This week I have had to be on the proxy to get on.

Thought they were just keeping a check on me!

But Today is OK.

Willy

[shaun]

Thanks Willy.