So Since I missed the “last train” before the consulate moved, I wait from July to Aug….I didn’t go to the medical exam since I can’t get into consulate without p4 anyway, I didn’t make my 23th interview, and I started feel like, “whatever…..”
没有赶上美领搬家前那趟最后的班车，我从七月一直等到了八月，我没有P4去了不了面试，去体检也没有用。我错过了我的面试，我开始也无所谓了
In the first week of September, people started to get their P4’s, and it seemed to be out of the order of people who submitted them. People who received their P3 later than me were starting to get their P4, but I was happy, because at least the consulate started to move along on things.
At the same time…a new interview date opened for us. I was at lunch with my love over skype, and he had just done a search, and I wasn’t expecting any openings….and there was one! I was so excited and I was still not sure what to do, because I don’t know when I will have my P4 and I was afraid I would miss my interview again…..but after we talked, we decided book it, (the good thing is we have 5 chances, and the other people lost 2 already) so I booked first day of Oct. after the holiday. After that, he good news was spread in our QQ group. Some people booked appointments, and some of them still worried that they wouldn’t get their P4 in time and decided to wait.
九月的第一个礼拜，开始有人收到P4了。似乎没有按照P3的顺序，有些人比我们晚提交P3都先收到了P4。我很开心，至少美领馆开始动起来了。同时，新的面试时间开放了。我在午餐时间，和我的爱人聊天，我让他再搜一下，结果出乎意料，我看到面试期开放了。我好激动，但是我不知道该如何，因为我还没有P4，我也不想再次错过我的面。商量之后我们决定订一个，毕竟有五次机会，别人都改期两次了.我们订了国庆后的第一天，然后，你知道的，好消息被我们在群里传开. 有些人也订了，有些人则没有，因为他们怕再次遭遇原来的结果，还是宁愿等P4来了再约面。
After one week I still didn’t have the P4….and I got a phone call from consulate. I thought its about myP4, but the person asked me why I booked interview when I didn’t have P4 yet and scolded me about it….I knew I shouldn’t do that, but it was their delays over the last 2 months without issuing any P4’s that drove people crazy, causing everybody to worry they would get their P4 and then be no available dates…..I decided not to cancel it….after day by day, most people who submit P3 during July were all getting their P4.
等了一个礼拜，还是没有P4，而我从美领馆得到电话，本以为是关于我的P4的，结果那个人问我为什么没有P4的情况下约面了。他说来电话话就是告诉我这个不被允许的，问我清楚了吗？我告诉他我知道了。我知道不应该那么做。但是没有P4让人都疯了，每个人都担心有了包结果没有了面期才去抢的。我不决定取消，是因为他们只告诉我这个不允许的，但是他们没有要求我取消，估计通知我只是让我知道，他们就不用负责了。一天又一天过去了，七月提交P3的人基本都拿到了P4
I felt like giving up expecting to get my P4 anymore…. I don’t check my mail, I don’t care what other people say, i just live like normal day, and then, in the later afternoon, I got my P4!
我已经放弃了，不再期望我的P4了，我不查邮件了，不关心其他人的讨论，就如往常一样正常的日子生活，结果那天下午，我有了P4邮件
Not long after that, another date opened around end of Sept. I guess because the line was delayed, and some people who submitted the P3 in Aug haven’t gotten their P4 yet have had to cancel their interview too. I called my darling in the middle of his night and asked him if should I change the interview date. and he did it for me, and I am glad we did.
不多久，另外一个九月底几天面期开放了，我猜想或许是因为队伍的P4排期延后，那些八月递交P3的人也没有P4，他们赶不上自己当初约的面，也开始取消了。我打电话给我的达令，他那是半夜呢，我问他是否应该改期提前我的面。他为我改了。我很高兴当初我们那么做了
I went to Guangzhou the next week for the medical exam and then waited for my interview to come….It seems there is always something happening to make our K visa difficult to get…There was a big typhoon coming around my interview day (it’s already strange enough that for the last two months it rained a lot nearly everyday, I know we get a lot of typhoons, but we generally don’t see that much rain often in my city this season), we are not sure if the consulate will be open or not.
第二礼拜我去了广州做体检，然后等我的面试来。K1道路似乎一直都很曲折，一个大台风会在我面试期间登录（我知道这个季节在我们城市台风常见，单很奇怪连续两个月每天下雨）我不知道美领馆是否会开放
Just in case, Rob asked me go a day early before the typhoon landed. So I left on the weekend instead of on Monday. Before I took the train to Guangzhou I got all my documentation ready, and I also printed out a email from Rob’s mom that she was worried about the storm affecting my interview as proof that I frequently contacted with his family and they care about me. I can feel the storm coming, but fortunately the typhoon changed direction a bit after it made landfall, so fortunately the storm was over by the interview day and the damage wasn’t bad. who live far away wasn’t that lucky, their flight to Guangzhou be cancelled because of the storm, and they have to find another way to go, otherwise, they have to give up their interview。
Rob’s note: This was a category 5 (I believe it was “Usagi”?) storm that was headed straight for them, and the storm track was showing the center of the storm going right over the consulate. So there was justifiable worry.
这种情况下，ROB叫我在台风登录前提前一天出发去广州，所以周末我就离开了。走之前，我还打印了他妈妈写给我的邮件，担心我台风时期的面试，虽然我证据已经准备的很足够了。我觉得风暴的来临，但是我很幸运台风改变了方向，所以没有风暴没有正面袭击广州，面试前一天还下雨大风，但是面试当天情况不是那么糟糕。住的远的就没那么幸运了，他们飞机航班因为大风被取消了，他们不得不改其他交通工具，或者取消自己的面。
The interview wasn’t take long but get into consulate and wait for my turn is take hours. I did good job answer all the questions in English, and I thought I was a quick one, but after talked to others, I found out I be asked a lot, and there is a VO people talked about him a lot who was interview me. People said whom interviewed by him are most get RFE. I feel I am so proud of myself
面试并不是很久，反倒是进去大使馆排队和等候叫号要很久。我用英语回答的问题，虽然我觉得自己很快，但是从其他人那知道，我其实被问了很多。那有个VO被大家经常谈论到，就是它面试我的。后来他被大家成为秒补男，因为只要谁面试他，都会要补材料。而且要补的材料基本很奇葩。我为自己能秒过感到很骄傲。
The second day after my interview, I saw that the case was updated, and on the third day was issued. I had heard people say there is a process like AP -ready-AP-ISSUED. so, was it updated twice in same day? I don’t know…and after that was the weekend….end of the Sept…so I think I should expect the visa come after the national holiday. But it had been really fast, and I got two emails that asked me to pick it up after the holiday, and seems like it’s already at the bank even before the holiday…wow…that’s so quick!
面试后第二天，我看到我的CASE更新了，第三天就ISSUED了。我听别人说有四个过程的，但是我同一天被更新了两次？我不知道，那之后的周末-九月底，我想我应该期待我的签证是国庆节后拿到吧，但是非常快的，节后和期间我收到了2封邮件叫我去取，我想他们应该在节前就发出来了。哇。。。好快！
That’s it, I finally got everything done for K1!
就是这样，我终于完成了所有K1
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