A few things about the Consulate: It used to be that the appointment at the consulate happened one day and then the oath and Visa both happened on another day. Now the appointment happens one day, then the Oath the next day, and the Visa the day after that. That means there are only appointments [...]

I posted about the CCAA’s new Special Needs policy here, now that we’re about a week into it, I’m curious if anyone is seeing the affects of the new policy? I think GlitterGirl and I now have everything out in the open between us that needs to be talked through after watching Wo Ai Ni [...]

Wow – looks like the consulate has opened up more slots. You can read their notice here. They also listed upcoming holidays, which I’m going to copy here, just to make sure we’ve got a record of them when the page there changes to another URL. U.S. Labor Day: Sept. 6 (Consulate Closed) Chinese Mid-Autumn [...]

I’m told that the consulate is once again backed up with appointments, and that people are having to delay travel because there aren’t enough appointment slots available. When this has happened before we’ve been able to get them to open the schedule up a bit more by getting our congress people involved. To write your [...]

As many of you figured out yesterday, different USCIS offices do different things. The 18 months is supposed to go from expiration date to expiration date, but at least two offices were doing it based on when they got the new one approved instead, and since they allowed a long period between request for a [...]

The first rumor is that the CCAA is preparing to match. If you don’t know what that might mean then you may want to check out the “How the Matching Room Works” link in the right hand column under “Important Posts”. The second rumor is that the USCIS plans to begin requiring that home study [...]