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Q: I'm returning to USA with a Chinese native, how hard is it and the 'interview' for tourist VISA?
9 years 13 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
It would help if you gave more information on your relationship to the Chinese person.
He/she will need to prove the following:
Enough money to fund the trip
close ties to China that they'll come back for (children here, own their own house, etc)
It would be good if they had an invite letter from a USA resident. Even better if you were in a relationship & could prove it.
Not enough information in your question to give a more detailed answer.
It would help if you gave more information on your relationship to the Chinese person.
He/she will need to prove the following:
Enough money to fund the trip
close ties to China that they'll come back for (children here, own their own house, etc)
It would be good if they had an invite letter from a USA resident. Even better if you were in a relationship & could prove it.
Not enough information in your question to give a more detailed answer.
A tourist visa can be easy or difficult to procure depending on the person's circumstances. If he/she has lots of money in China, a stable job, and significant assets such as a house or a car it should be fairly easy. If he/she is a young student without more than one of the above, it can be near impossible. My wife was rejected the first time (before we were married) despite our painstaking efforts, an invitation letter from my father in America and lots of documents that were ignored by the official. After getting an immigration lawyer and having 200,000 rmb transferred to her bank account, she was granted a tourist visa.
from my experience I suggest you just find a home in China and forget the visa shit and paying a lawyer.... believe me, been there done that... useless lawyers.... money sucking pigs... the system works in its own way... lawyers do not change that way.
jetfire9000:
Are you not married already? Wouldn't that be a big help in getting a green card? Why the pessimism?
Your soon to be wife or Husband and or gay partner (Just guessing because its easy to tell otherwise the type of partner or person would have been stated) will need to deposit Y100,000 and or have a house in their name to prove they have something to come back for. If your are thinking to just bring this person over and hide her or him or it from the U.S gov than it'll cost you Y100,000.. Because that is the deposit. I took my wife to Hawaii and I had to deposit Y100,000 and got it back after we returned. So my best advice: Part time, Part Time and more Part time.
in addition to the above advice, my wife was approved easily because she studied in canada and had 5 trips on her passport to canada,
if you travel to some other countries before applying to america it shows they abide by visa laws for other countries and gives them some reason to trust the person will return.
take a tour of thailand, vietnam and another country, they have these tours for a week for about 5000 rmb, it sucks for you being around a tour group of chinese for a week but it helps her get the visa by creating a history of travel to see on her passport.
I've had a couple friends get their gfs approved and a couple get rejected. I've also had friends at the consulate explain the criteria.
1. Hotwater is right about the ties to china, in fact my buddy at the consulate says that's the most important thing they look at. So a 29 year old woman with a good job at P&G is going to get approved in a hot second because why would she leave that to go be a strain on US resources?
2. As a corrolary to 1, they also look at ties to the US. As in they look for ZERO ties to the US. If you don't have money or a house the most important thing is you do NOT tell them that you have an american boyfriend. You tell them you speak no english, you don't know anyone there, you saved up some money and want to go shopping.
The people they reject are going to be girls from the countryside who speak english who date ESL teachers. The ones that in their spreadsheet have the highest risk of trying to marry someone who can't support them or just try and disappear into the background.
It sounds unintuitive, but if your girlfriend doesn't come from a well-to-do family she needs to deny the ability to speak english/survive in the us on her own and say she just wants to go shopping.
Judging by the single sentence in your OP, I'd say that your english is pretty good. So I think you will have no trouble passing the fluency test but they may be confused by an American wanting to do this test. I wish you the best of luck.
what type of visa are you planning on getting? needing a visa from the USA and China allow her to go... the comment about prior passport use is really good. basically saying they left the country and came back.
