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Last updated on Sep. 09, 03. Total Numbers:679
Including: Approved - 280, Pending -399


Albert Einstein College Of Medicine
N/A F1  (Kiev, Ukriane.)
Major: Aerospace and Astronautic Engineering
Apply Date: May. 07,03 Check Date: May. 07,03
Current Status:   Pending, and even I was fingerprinted (125 days of delay)
I submitted in Third Country, and the major is very sensitive, and graduated from aviation university. I even was FINGERPRINTED 85$.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) post-doc
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Mar. 12,03 Check Date: Mar. 12,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 08,03  (149 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) post-doc
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Mar. 12,03 Check Date: Mar. 12,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 14,03  (155 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Biology,Cell
Apply Date:  Check Date: May. 27,03
Current Status:   Pending (105 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Biophysics
Apply Date: Dec. 04,02 Check Date: Jan. 27,03
Current Status:   pending (225 days of delay)
N/A   (SHANGHAI)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 02,03 Check Date: May. 26,03
Current Status:    (106 days of delay)
F1s, please do not go back till you finish study or get your green card.

American Company
N/A H1B  (Vancouver)
Major: Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 21,03 Check Date: Jul. 21,03
Current Status:    (50 days of delay)
Stuck in Canada. Peronal life is in chaos. I cannot take care of my family and home in US. Great loss is also caused to the American company I work for.

Arizona State University
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Study
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: May. 27,03 Check Date: May. 27,03
Current Status:    (105 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) post-doc research
Major: biochemistry
Apply Date: Mar. 20,03 Check Date: Mar. 21,03
Current Status:   still waiting  (172 days of delay)
I have been waiting for 122 days. This long and unlimited delays ruined my hopes and future, almost!!!I have no idea when this stupid check will be ended up. Besides, I am really afriad that my place will be concelled when the process is over. I thought I will go abroad in time, so I don't get job after my graduation. Now,I feel awful and painful, but I have no choice but wait, wait ,and wait,with impatiently and upsettingly. This is driving me crazy.

Auburn University
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study for PhD
Major: Materials Engineering
Apply Date: May. 29,03 Check Date: May. 29,03
Current Status:   Penging (103 days of delay)

Axt Inc., In Fremont, Ca
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Business trip to Beijing, China
Major: Sr. Engineer
Apply Date: Jul. 18,02 Check Date: Jul. 23,02
Current Status:   Waiting the Approval of Visa.  (413 days of delay)
I was assigned to go to the Beijing facility of AXT Inc., on 7/14/02 and was scheduled to return to Fremont, CA, on 8/2/02. I was told that I should wait for a background checking in the visa interview meeting at the Embassy of the US in Beijing on 7/23/02. I resubmitted an application for the Visa via CITIC on March 23, 2003, according to the discussion of the potential options between the officer of the Embassy and Dr. Kristie Leiser, a representative from AXT who visited the Embassy in Beijing in February 2003. The re-application has not revealed how long to wait for conclusion or the reason for delay, but also has not resulted in any apparent action on my circumstances. Due to my delay of returning, I can not take my job responsibilities for the company which I can only discharge when I am in the United States. This delay has already given my family a great trouble. My wife and 7-year old son are in Fremont now.

Baylor College Of Medicine
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Postdoctoral research
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Jul. 23,03 Check Date: Jul. 23,03
Current Status:   Pending (48 days of delay)
The visa application interview strongly destroyed my research plan and my future Employer's reserch activity had been delayed.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Pack my things for immigrant reasons
Major: Biomedical
Apply Date: Mar. 01,03 Check Date: Mar. 01,03
Current Status:   waiting (192 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Visit my parents for two weeks
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Nov. 22,02 Check Date: Nov. 22,02
Current Status:   Approved on Feb. 28,03  (98 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) mother was ill
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: Jun. 04,02 Check Date: Jan. 21,03
Current Status:   out of job (231 days of delay)

Boston University
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: BME
Apply Date: Feb. 12,02 Check Date: Feb. 12,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 02,03  (475 days of delay)
Thanks a lot for your work and Good luck to all!
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 09,03 Check Date: Jan. 09,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 11,03  (153 days of delay)

Boston University School Of Medicine
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Visit my family
Major: Biology, Cell & Molecular
Apply Date: Dec. 26,02 Check Date: Jan. 13,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 09,03  (116 days of delay)
GZ told me they sent my materials to Washington on Feb 7

Bowling Green State University, Ohio
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) see my family
Major: Chemistry, Photochemical Sciences
Apply Date: Dec. 25,02 Check Date: Jan. 09,03
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 10,03  (91 days of delay)

Brigham Young Univeristy
N/A J1  (SHANGHAI) Postdoctoral research
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Jul. 24,03 Check Date: Jul. 24,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 28,03  (35 days of delay)
My Ph.D degree is on Physics. But my work is on the mechanical properties of metals and alloys. Hence my major is more close to that of mechanical engineering, the major of mine in BYU. The project, I will attend in USA, is supported by office of navy research. But it is only basical research, and can be published. The boss in USA will cancel this contract if I will be checked long time.

Brigham Young University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Jun. 25,03 Check Date: Jun. 25,03
Current Status:   Checking (76 days of delay)

Brown University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) to visit my parents
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 03,03  (146 days of delay)
My visa has been delayed for more than three months. I hope that whether my study chance will not be effected by this problem. I cherish the study chance very much and I hope this problem can be resolved soon.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit my parents
Major: Engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 26,02 Check Date: Dec. 26,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 07,03  (193 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Go back to visit my parents
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Jan. 03,03 Check Date: Jan. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 20,03  (137 days of delay)
I have to wait in china for the whole spring term. I lost the chance to study and my whole study plan was thrown into confusion.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) To pursue PhD
Major: Physics, (Nanoscience)
Apply Date: Jun. 24,02 Check Date: Jun. 24,02
Current Status:   Still pending (442 days of delay)
I cannot go to Brown Univ. last September and still cannot go at Jan. this year. I sincerely hope you can help me out!!!! It is very unfair to those old Checkees. Thanks!!!

California Institute Of Technology
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) Visiting parents
Major: Aeronautics
Apply Date: Jun. 18,03 Check Date: Jun. 18,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 14,03  (26 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Environmental Science and Engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 16,02 Check Date: Dec. 26,02
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 21,03  (238 days of delay)
N/A J1  (CHENGDU) visiting scholar
Major: MEMS
Apply Date: Jun. 03,03 Check Date: Jun. 03,03
Current Status:    (98 days of delay)

Carnegie Mellon University
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: Jul. 11,02 Check Date: Jul. 11,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 21,03  (375 days of delay)
I have been waiting for more than 9 months, but today I was told I still have to wait - indefinitely. This bureaucratic system is crazy!!!
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) back home for winter vacation
Major: Computer Science (Data Mining)
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 17,03  (192 days of delay)
unable to describe in words

Case Western Reserve Univ.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) STUDY
Major: BME
Apply Date: Nov. 25,02 Check Date: Nov. 25,02
Current Status:   pending (288 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Visit Family
Major: BME
Apply Date: Jan. 02,03 Check Date: Jan. 02,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 15,03  (133 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) PHD
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Jun. 05,03 Check Date: Jun. 05,03
Current Status:    (96 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) summer vocation
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Mar. 19,03 Check Date: Mar. 20,03
Current Status:    (173 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) family
Major: Chemistry, Macromolecular science
Apply Date: Dec. 17,02 Check Date: Dec. 17,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 15,03  (149 days of delay)
My friend recently called the Visa Service @202-663-1225 to ask my clearance status. The officer told my friend that my case HAD NOT BEEN PROCESSED because there was NO any NOTICE on it and they DID NOT KNOW WHAT THEY SHOULD DO to my case. The officer suggests me to contact the Embassy in Beijing and ask them to send a clear notice to DC. I contacted Beijing US Embassy but was told that they do not take any action on individual applicant.s request and only accept the direction from DOS, say, telling them what they should send to DC regarding my case. So, the ball has been kicked back to DC again, if neither side would like to take action, my case will sleep in DC forever.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study for PH.D degree
Major: Materials Engineering
Apply Date: May. 28,03 Check Date: May. 28,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 17,03  (20 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: May. 29,03 Check Date: May. 29,03
Current Status:   pending (103 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Visit my parents
Major: chemistry, physical
Apply Date: Feb. 18,03 Check Date: Feb. 18,03
Current Status:   Approved on Sep. 03,03  (202 days of delay)
I am crazy!!! The precious 3 monthes in my life have been wasted. Who can tell me when such a stupid checking process will end?

Case Western Reserve University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) study
Major: BME
Apply Date: Nov. 15,02 Check Date: Nov. 15,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 21,03  (248 days of delay)

Catholic University Of America
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit parents and friends in winter
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Dec. 24,02 Check Date: Dec. 24,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 24,03  (182 days of delay)

Chiaro Networks
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) visiting parents
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Feb. 11,03 Check Date: May. 01,03
Current Status:   pending (131 days of delay)
seems that I have to take a longer vacation and fight to SARS here.

Cincinnati Children'S Hospital
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) visit family
Major: Biology
Apply Date: Jan. 03,03 Check Date: Jan. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 15,03  (132 days of delay)
I've been in the US for over three years. I came back to China to visit my family in Beijing. I was expected to go back to work on Jan. 17. Unfortunately, I have been waiting for my re-entry visa approved for over three months.

City University Of New York
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study in Ph.D. Program
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Jun. 05,03 Check Date: Jun. 05,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 15,03  (40 days of delay)
I can not make any further schedule, such as booking my airline ticket, but to wait all the time, can not go to anywhere. Uncertainty makes me very upset and my life a mass.
N/A F1  (CHENGDU)
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Jun. 17,03 Check Date: Jun. 17,03
Current Status:    (84 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) posdoc.
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Mar. 20,03 Check Date: Mar. 20,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 30,03  (132 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) study
Major: physics
Apply Date: Jan. 09,03 Check Date: Jan. 09,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 04,03  (146 days of delay)
One year has passed since my first application for the F1 visa to US. Everyone knows how precious time is, especially to us students.

Clarkson University
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) MS
Major: Material, MAE
Apply Date: Jun. 04,03 Check Date: Jun. 04,03
Current Status:   Pending  (97 days of delay)

Clemson University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) PhD study
Major: Bioengineering
Apply Date: Jul. 09,03 Check Date: Jul. 09,03
Current Status:   in checking (62 days of delay)
I have deferred to the spring semester, the enrollment date is January 5th.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Graduate program
Major: CHE
Apply Date: Jun. 27,03 Check Date: Jun. 27,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 25,03  (59 days of delay)
After receiving the new I-20 of Spring semester, I will go to U.S.Embassy about in Octomber,2003.

College Of William And Mary
N/A F1  (SHENYANG) Visit parents
Major: Nuclear Medical Imaging
Apply Date: Jan. 08,03 Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   pending (244 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI) Post-doc
Major: Nuclear and particle physics
Apply Date: Oct. 30,02 Check Date: Oct. 30,02
Current Status:   background checking (314 days of delay)
A big loss! My research is pending. My life and career in science is at stake. :-(
N/A F2  (BEIJING)
Major: 
Apply Date:  Check Date: Apr. 08,03
Current Status:    (154 days of delay)

Colorado School Of Mines
N/A F1  (BEIJING) vacation
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 27,03 Check Date: Jan. 27,03
Current Status:   still pending (225 days of delay)

Columbia University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) marriage
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 29,03  (143 days of delay)
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) Marriage
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Aug. 04,03 Check Date: Aug. 04,03
Current Status:    (36 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: May. 27,03 Check Date: May. 27,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 14,03  (48 days of delay)
N/A   (BEIJING)
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Feb. 10,03 Check Date: Feb. 10,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 20,03  (99 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) incoming Ph.D.
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: Mar. 28,03 Check Date: Mar. 28,03
Current Status:   Pending (165 days of delay)

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
N/A F1  (BEIJING) pursue my PhD degree
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: Jul. 24,03 Check Date: Aug. 11,03
Current Status:   pending (29 days of delay)
I got my visa on July 24,and purchased airline ticket of Aug. 20. But I got call from embassy and was told I was checked on Aug. 11. Maybe I can't officially admitted in this Fall semester, and miss one semester's class.

Columbia University
N/A H4  (BEIJING)
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: Apr. 10,03 Check Date: Apr. 10,03
Current Status:   Pending (152 days of delay)
VO said need 2-3 wks for checking. but ...
N/A F1  (London, UK) return to Grad school after internship
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 05,03 Check Date: Jun. 05,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 29,03  (54 days of delay)
thanks for taking care of this!
N/A F1  (Frankfurt, Germany)
Major: Mechanical Engineering, Robotics/Control
Apply Date: Jul. 15,02 Check Date: Aug. 14,02
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 28,03  (257 days of delay)
sencond year PH.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering. On June 8, 2002, I came to IWR at University of Heidelberg, Germany,to join the group of Prof. Bock, Simulation and Optimization, with my advisor, Prof. Richard W. Longman, to make our joint research with them go faster. We expected to stay here just for three month of last summer from last June to last September. I sent out an application of re-entry F1 visa on July 15, 2002 to Frankfurt Consulate by mail and had an interview on August 14, 2002. I have been waiting for more than 7 months! I did fax/phone the embassy through the hotline (EURO 1.86/min) many time, however, I am totally ignored by them. They don't call me back at all!(Just the operators recorded my information) I am even thinking that I will never get results from the security check.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 16,03 Check Date: Jan. 16,03
Current Status:   Approved on Mar. 26,03  (69 days of delay)
N/A H4  (BEIJING)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Mar. 11,03 Check Date: Mar. 11,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 24,03  (105 days of delay)
Re-entry visa
N/A F1  (BERLIN) research
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Apr. 30,03 Check Date: May. 08,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 15,03  (68 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Jan. 25,03 Check Date: Jan. 25,03
Current Status:   Approved on Mar. 25,03  (59 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) To Pursue My Ph.D. In Columbia University
Major: Physics, Chemical
Apply Date: May. 27,03 Check Date: May. 27,03
Current Status:   pending (105 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study
Major: Physics, Plasma
Apply Date: May. 27,03 Check Date: May. 27,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 28,03  (104 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) to do postdoc research
Major: biophysics
Apply Date: Feb. 19,03 Check Date: Feb. 19,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 13,03  (114 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BERLIN) defend my Ph.D.
Major: physics
Apply Date: Jul. 31,02 Check Date: Oct. 01,02
Current Status:   Approved on Mar. 18,03  (168 days of delay)
I did my research work at Hamburg and wanted to go back to Columbia University to defend my thesis, started applying visa July 2002, had an interview October 2002, and got the visa only in March 2003. I had to postpone my defense schedule, pay my rent in Columbia for half a year, lost thousands of dollars and no where to complain.

Computer Horizons Corp
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Visit my sicked Mom
Major: Computer Software Engineer
Apply Date: Apr. 11,03 Check Date: Apr. 11,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 05,03  (116 days of delay)
Thanks here and I have returned the States. I would like to do anything for this BBS or actions, please just drop me an email if I could do anything for this community. Thanks everyone's effort

Cornell University
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) Ph.D.
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Jun. 24,03 Check Date: Jun. 24,03
Current Status:   Pending (77 days of delay)
Am expected to arrive before July 14 to attend the TA training program. Seems that I will not be able make it. Don't know what to do...
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Visit family
Major: Civil & Environmental Engr.
Apply Date: Jan. 10,03 Check Date: Jan. 14,03
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 22,03  (98 days of delay)
Mental Torture and time loss...
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit family during winter
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 14,03 Check Date: Jan. 14,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 05,03  (142 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Visiting my family
Major: biology, molecular
Apply Date: Jan. 14,03 Check Date: Jan. 14,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 25,03  (162 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: physics
Apply Date: Oct. 17,02 Check Date: Oct. 17,02
Current Status:   pending (327 days of delay)

Dana Farber Cancer Institute
N/A   (GUANGZHOU) Visit family
Major: Bio-engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 02,03 Check Date: Jan. 02,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 21,03  (249 days of delay)

Dartmouth Medical School
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Pahology
Apply Date: Feb. 24,03 Check Date: Feb. 24,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 13,03  (78 days of delay)

Duke University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) PhD
Major: EE----Electromagnetics
Apply Date: May. 30,03 Check Date: May. 30,03
Current Status:   don't know (102 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) post-doc
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: Apr. 21,03 Check Date: Apr. 21,03
Current Status:   waiting (141 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: medicine
Apply Date: Apr. 24,03 Check Date: Apr. 24,03
Current Status:   still pending (138 days of delay)
My project maybe cancelled because of long time delay! So frustrated!

Duquesne University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit my family
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 08,03 Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 02,03  (145 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study for Ph.D.
Major: Chemistry, Medicinal
Apply Date: Jun. 13,03 Check Date: Jun. 13,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 18,03  (35 days of delay)
I am afraid that I can't report to the university by the mandatory reporting date at August 13. If that so, my financial aid may be canceled.
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 05,03 Check Date: Jan. 05,03
Current Status:   still pending (247 days of delay)

Emory University
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI) search
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 10,03 Check Date: Jan. 10,03
Current Status:    (242 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit my family
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on Sep. 02,03  (245 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Phamacology
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jan. 09,03
Current Status:   Pending (243 days of delay)
Delating our research project

Evergen Biotechnologies, Inc.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Business
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 17,03 Check Date: Jan. 17,03
Current Status:   Approved on Feb. 26,03  (40 days of delay)

Florida Institute Of Technology
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) study
Major: aerospace engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 10,03 Check Date: Jun. 10,03
Current Status:   pending (91 days of delay)
feel nervous and frustrating

Florida State University
N/A H1B  (Frankfurt, Germany) Research Associate
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Nov. 04,02 Check Date: Nov. 04,02
Current Status:   waiting for visa (309 days of delay)

Georgia State University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Family reunion
Major: Chemistry, Polymer, Textiles
Apply Date: Jun. 24,02 Check Date: Jun. 24,02
Current Status:   Waiting for my visa (442 days of delay)
This has affected my whole life. I am not able to continue my graduate study which will help me to pursue a better career in my future. I have been able to pay my bills, including credit cards and car loan. My credit has been ruined. It is a mess of my life, my future.

Georgia Tech
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) postdoctoral training
Major: BME
Apply Date: Jan. 31,03 Check Date: Jan. 31,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 15,03  (104 days of delay)
It's really a hard time for those foreign students who wish to continue their studies in USA.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) vacation
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: Aug. 01,03 Check Date: Aug. 01,03
Current Status:   Processing (39 days of delay)
My research is in system area, not sensitive at all. The reason that my visa renew was checked was I had network security courses on my transcript! According to the stupid policy, all the courses I took must be closely related to my research! It seems I should have also considered sensitivity besides other factors when I decided if to take a course, or life would have been easier if US schools made citizenship a pre-requisite of any sensitive courses. My research group is supposed to submit a prototype implemetation of our NSF funded project, I am responsible for one core module. Now, the whole project is slowed down because I am stuck in China and it takes time for other group members to pick up my job.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Pursue Ph.D degree
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 03,02 Check Date: Jul. 03,02
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 21,03  (414 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Vacation, visiting parents
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 22,03  (227 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Visit my family
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Dec. 30,02 Check Date: Mar. 24,03
Current Status:   waiting (169 days of delay)
Actually they DO NOT know who should be checked. I talked with two VO. If not because of missing some document, the first one already gave me the VISA (He told me to go to one window waiting for my passport. But he called me back). When I got all document and went to Shanghai again, I met another VO. The second VO gave me a clearance check.

H4 Applicant
N/A H4  (BEIJING) Visiting wife
Major: ECE
Apply Date: Apr. 02,03 Check Date: Apr. 02,03
Current Status:   pending (160 days of delay)
N/A H4  (BEIJING) Reunion with my wife
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Nov. 18,02 Check Date: Nov. 18,02
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 13,03  (268 days of delay)
Marriage separation...... Family can't reunion....
N/A H4  (BEIJING)
Major: English
Apply Date: Apr. 22,03 Check Date: Apr. 22,03
Current Status:    (140 days of delay)
N/A H4  (BEIJING) visit
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Mar. 10,03 Check Date: Mar. 11,03
Current Status:   pending (182 days of delay)
N/A H4  (BEIJING)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Apr. 03,03 Check Date: Apr. 03,03
Current Status:    (159 days of delay)
N/A H4  (BEIJING) reunion with my husband
Major: accounting
Apply Date: Mar. 14,03 Check Date: Mar. 14,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 10,03  (88 days of delay)
A loved couple got married in Feb and have to suffer from the separation all these days and no idea what day can meet with each other again...
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Visit parents
Major: optical communication
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:    (245 days of delay)

Harvard University
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Biochem
Apply Date: Jun. 17,03 Check Date: Jun. 17,03
Current Status:    (84 days of delay)
I have missed the ELP of Harvard and might miss the registration if I can't get the visa before Sept.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Postdoctoral research
Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Apply Date: Jan. 08,03 Check Date: Jan. 17,03
Current Status:   Waiting and waiting (235 days of delay)
I was checked 9 days just before I leave after I had got H1 visa, so I lost much money to return my ticket. And, more seriously, I will lose my position at Harvard Medical School soon. I lost position, time and money. It's very frustrating.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Visit Family
Major: Immunology
Apply Date: May. 27,03 Check Date: Jun. 05,03
Current Status:   Pending (96 days of delay)
Unpredictable waiting brings: Long separation from my husband who is in US, high cost of re-purchase return ticket, no income in China, no job security in current position. And most important: Time, precious time for a Postdoc.
N/A H1B  (BERLIN)
Major: Immunology
Apply Date: Oct. 26,02 Check Date: Nov. 20,02
Current Status:   pending (293 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Postdoctoral Research
Major: Medicine
Apply Date: Apr. 03,03 Check Date: Apr. 03,03
Current Status:   Pending (159 days of delay)
N/A   (BERLIN)
Major: N/A
Apply Date:  Check Date: Oct. 06,02
Current Status:   Approved on Dec. 11,02  (66 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Graduate Study
Major: Urban Planning
Apply Date: Jun. 02,03 Check Date: Jun. 02,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 17,03  (45 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Graduate Study
Major: Urban Planning
Apply Date: Jul. 31,03 Check Date: Jul. 31,03
Current Status:   Pending (40 days of delay)
I have missed the summer program class before the orientation. Orientation would be on Sep 8 and class would begin on Sep 15.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Postdoc
Major: chemistry, physical
Apply Date: Jan. 24,03 Check Date: Jan. 24,03
Current Status:    (228 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (US Embassy Stockholm) Postdoctoral research
Major: chemistry, polymer
Apply Date: Aug. 24,02 Check Date: Sep. 25,02
Current Status:   No response (349 days of delay)

Houston Medical School
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Neuroscience
Apply Date: Dec. 24,02 Check Date: Dec. 24,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 29,03  (217 days of delay)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute @ Mass Genera Hosp
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Mother passed away
Major: keyongzou2000@yahoo.com
Apply Date: Mar. 12,03 Check Date: Mar. 12,03
Current Status:   waiting (181 days of delay)

Hunter College
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Visiting parent and some colleges
Major: Geography and Geology
Apply Date: Jan. 17,03 Check Date: Jan. 17,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 14,03  (117 days of delay)

Ibm
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Vacation
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 31,03 Check Date: Jan. 31,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 19,03  (108 days of delay)

Indiana University-Bloomington
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Ph.D study
Major: biochemistry
Apply Date: May. 15,03 Check Date: May. 15,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 29,03  (106 days of delay)
Hope checkees could get clearance soon before the coming Fall Semester!

Indiana University-Iupui
N/A F1  (SHENYANG)
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: Jul. 15,03 Check Date: Jul. 15,03
Current Status:    (56 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: genetics
Apply Date: Jun. 16,03 Check Date: Jun. 16,03
Current Status:    (85 days of delay)
I was checked in Jun 16,2003, almost all students(at least 10 as I know) checked in Jun 16,2003 in beijing have not gotten the call. I wonder if it is possible that our materials have not been dealt with.
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) For Ph.D study
Major: physiology
Apply Date: May. 09,03 Check Date: May. 09,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 28,03  (111 days of delay)

International Game Technology
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Take oral defense to finish my PhD study
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Feb. 10,03 Check Date: Feb. 10,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 14,03  (93 days of delay)

Iowa State University
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 23,03 Check Date: Jul. 23,03
Current Status:   pending (48 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Jun. 09,03 Check Date: Jun. 09,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 22,03  (91 days of delay)
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) Visit my wife
Major: Biochemistry & Biophysics
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:    (245 days of delay)
Crazy!!!! The officer told me it may take one or two weeks, but now, over three months.
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) pursue PhD degree
Major: Biology
Apply Date: Jun. 11,03 Check Date: Jun. 11,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 09,03  (28 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) study
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 03,03 Check Date: Jul. 03,03
Current Status:    (68 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) pursue PhD degree
Major: Materials
Apply Date: May. 27,03 Check Date: May. 27,03
Current Status:   waiting (105 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Ph.D
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 25,03 Check Date: Jun. 25,03
Current Status:   pending (76 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Visit his mother
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 13,03 Check Date: Jan. 13,03
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 10,03  (87 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: 
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jul. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 15,03  (43 days of delay)

Jacobs Civil, Inc.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Vacation
Major: Civil Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 28,03 Check Date: Jan. 28,03
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 04,03  (66 days of delay)
I planned to get back to work on Feb 17, but didn't get back until April 4 due to the visa checking. During the time waiting for the visa to be approved, my company, family and I were all affected. Because I wasn't able to get back to my work on time, and didn't know how long the checking process would take, it made it hard for my company to staff and they had to let someone who is not familiar with my work to work on my position temporarily. This affected the progress of our project. My trip was delayed for 46 days. This is caused the loss of my salary for 46 days. Because of not being able to get back on time and taking care of my bills on time, some late fees were also incurred. Compared to the frustration, stress and worries that my family and I went through during the time of waiting without knowing when the process would be over, the financial loss are really minor.

Jds Uniphase
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI) business travel
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Oct. 21,02 Check Date: Oct. 21,02
Current Status:   still pending (323 days of delay)

John Hopkins Medical Institute
N/A J1  (BEIJING) research fellow
Major: Bio, urology
Apply Date: Apr. 01,03 Check Date: Apr. 01,03
Current Status:    (161 days of delay)
Wang Zhiping’Visa(passport number:G04096917) I plan to do some research in urological cancer in Baltimore( John’s Hopkins Hospital) for one year supported by both funding from China Scholarship Council and funding from John’s Hopkins Hospital. My supervisor is Dr.Ronald Rodriguez in Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine(tel:410-614-6662). They ask me to start my research in July. If you need some further information, please let me know by the phone or e-mail (Tel:09318435827, Mobile phone: 13309401686 , e-mail:wzpurol@yahoo.com)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) see parents
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 08,03  (121 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study for Ph. D.
Major: Biological Chemistry
Apply Date: Jun. 13,03 Check Date: Jun. 13,03
Current Status:   Pending (88 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visiting parents/then re-entry of US
Major: Biological Chemistry
Apply Date: Mar. 18,03 Check Date: Mar. 21,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 19,03  (120 days of delay)
My school and advisor are looking forward to seeing me very soon. I am in the middle of a very important research project which will lead to the Ph.D. degree. I was scheduled to return to US on April 10,2003. But now...
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) visit family
Major: medicine
Apply Date: Dec. 24,02 Check Date: Feb. 01,03
Current Status:   Approved on Feb. 10,03  (9 days of delay)
My salary was stopped, but I had to pay my apartment, my cell phone and car insurance and .... Also, for changing date of my flight, I had to pay $100. My project has to be delayed..... Some researchers had to wait for me, because we worked as a team.
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: 
Apply Date:  Check Date: Mar. 21,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 17,03  (118 days of delay)

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Study for Ph.D.
Major: Environmental Engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 24,03 Check Date: Jun. 24,03
Current Status:   waiting (77 days of delay)
Waiting for the urgent admission to the school
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Ph.D. study
Major: biochemistry, oncology
Apply Date: Jul. 11,02 Check Date: Jul. 11,02
Current Status:   waiting (425 days of delay)
If the VISA cannot be issued to me in August 2003, I may lose the chance to study Genetic Epidemiology in the Johns Hopkins University, which rank the No.1 in the United States in this field. Beside the opportunity for Ph.D. study, it's rather frustrating to waste two years in my life, especially those in my golden age of youth.

Johns Hopkins University
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: 
Apply Date:  Check Date: Aug. 06,03
Current Status:    (34 days of delay)

Kansas State University
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) research work
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Nov. 13,02 Check Date: Nov. 13,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 14,03  (182 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Winter holiday
Major: EEIE
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   waiting! (245 days of delay)
I'm a F1 transfered from H1B, study for a EEIE master degree. get my visa transfer approved by INS at the early Dec.2002, then I return China for the winter holiday as I had planed, then I was told to be checked when I appled the F-1 visa in Guang Zhou Consulate. In the middle of Apr., I get a call from Guang Zhou Consulate that my check was over and I need a new valid I-20 from school to get the visa, but about one week later, i get a call from Guang Zhou Consulate again for a check again. then I did not get any more information, I call Guang Zhou Consulate to ask the state of my check, only sorry and no result, I don't know when it will over. Maybe I won't go back to finish my degree for I have to start my career in China now and can't wait any longer.

Kent State University
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) to continue my study
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Dec. 27,02 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:    (246 days of delay)
I couldn't attend the courses for Spring semester
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Apr. 02,03 Check Date: Apr. 15,03
Current Status:   Pending (147 days of delay)
Missed the whole summer semestr research, my experiement is delayed.

Kentuchy State University
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: Bio, Microbiology
Apply Date: Jun. 24,03 Check Date: Jun. 24,03
Current Status:    (77 days of delay)

Louisiana State University
N/A F1  (CHENGDU)
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Jun. 19,03 Check Date: Jun. 19,03
Current Status:   Waitting (82 days of delay)
I've been told to wait just 4-5 weeks in Chengdu, but it seems to be an endless waitting. Actually, I am already thinking about spring admission. What's worse, i might lose the oppertunity to receive higher education in US. Except for waitting here, i can't go anywhere...
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) to do postdoc research
Major: Bioorganic Chemistry
Apply Date: Apr. 24,03 Check Date: Apr. 24,03
Current Status:   pending (138 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visit home
Major: Chemical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 13,03 Check Date: Jan. 13,03
Current Status:   still pending (239 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) to do postdoc research
Major: Chemistry, Organic
Apply Date: Apr. 24,03 Check Date: Apr. 24,03
Current Status:   pending (138 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visiting parents
Major: biochemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 10,03 Check Date: Jan. 10,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 08,03  (179 days of delay)

Louisiana Technology University
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) study
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Apply Date: Nov. 13,02 Check Date: Nov. 13,02
Current Status:   Pending(270 days of delay) (300 days of delay)

M.I.T.
N/A   (SHANGHAI)
Major: Bio Engineer
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 30,03  (144 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Visiting family
Major: Chem
Apply Date: Jul. 24,03 Check Date: Jul. 24,03
Current Status:   pending (47 days of delay)
I had to miss two important academic conferences. Being out of the US, I do not have access to the needed materials, which has severely stalled the progress of my research.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) For Ph.D. degree
Major: Chemical Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 17,03 Check Date: Jul. 17,03
Current Status:   pending (54 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit my family and travel
Major: EECS, microelectronics
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 30,03  (143 days of delay)
I have been waiting for 3 months, but heard nothing from the embassy at all. I have asked my friends in the states to check the status with DC for me. Everytime, I got the same answer: pending.
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visit family
Major: Nuclear Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 16,03 Check Date: Jan. 16,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 29,03  (225 days of delay)
N/A   (CHENGDU) Visit family
Major: Nuclear Engineering
Apply Date: Aug. 08,02 Check Date: Aug. 08,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 04,03  (300 days of delay)
I have lost my apartment, Fellowship, RA and airplane tickets. All my life is a nightmare because of this checking delay. I just don't know who could pay for all these!
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Ph.D.
Major: Nuclear Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 08,02 Check Date: Jul. 08,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 17,03  (374 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Urban studies and planning
Apply Date: Oct. 10,02 Check Date: Oct. 10,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 27,03  (229 days of delay)
N/A J1  (SHANGHAI) post-doc training
Major: genetics
Apply Date: Apr. 02,03 Check Date: Apr. 02,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 12,03  (40 days of delay)
delay the post-doc research project
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit my parents
Major: mechanical engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 29,03  (141 days of delay)
I lost my TAship and financial support for MIT. I had to ask my friends to move my stuff out of my apartment to save money. My car was towed. I have to pay the fine and the insurance. I am homeless now. I only have one year left for my Ph. D. The whole spring semester is wasted. My project is greatly slowed down due to this delay.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) go back to visit old parents
Major: physics
Apply Date: Jan. 10,03 Check Date: Jan. 10,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 06,03  (147 days of delay)
Waste me a lot of time to do research. I am making some progress on a new topic.

Matec Instrument Companies, Inc.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Business Trip
Major: Mechanics, Engineering Science
Apply Date: Jan. 22,03 Check Date: Feb. 10,03
Current Status:   Waiting (211 days of delay)
I came to China for system installation and training on behalf of my company. After finishing my duty, I cannot return to US due to the security checking procedure. The company is suffering loss due to the delay of several big projects. Ironically, while getting stuck in china due to the visa issue, My company and I was invited for some activities in Shanghai hosted by US Department of Commerce on "How to expand business in China".

Mayo.Clinic
N/A J1  (GUANGZHOU) study
Major: biology
Apply Date: Dec. 18,02 Check Date: Jan. 24,03
Current Status:   checking (228 days of delay)
everything is delayed

Md Anderson Cancer Center
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI) working as a postdoctor
Major: genetics, molecular
Apply Date: Feb. 12,03 Check Date: Feb. 12,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 06,03  (83 days of delay)

Medical College Of Georgia
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: IMMUNOLOGY, MOLECULAR
Apply Date: Nov. 04,02 Check Date: Nov. 04,02
Current Status:   Pending (309 days of delay)
Research scheldue got significant delayed due to this. My wife has to take care our 5years old son all by herself. Now I just want a decision from DOS no matter what it is.

Medical College Of Ohio
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) H1B,postdoctor fellow
Major: neuroscience
Apply Date: Jul. 24,03 Check Date: Jul. 31,03
Current Status:   PENDING (40 days of delay)
WASTE TIME,WASTE MONEY, CANN'T DO ANY PLAN OF MY FUTURE,WAITING MAKE ME FRUSTRATING,DEPRESSED.My boss also be very confused.

Medical College Of Wisconsin
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) post-doc
Major: neuroscience
Apply Date: Jan. 30,03 Check Date: Jan. 30,03
Current Status:   pending (222 days of delay)

Medical University Of South Carolina
N/A H1B  (GUANGZHOU) father's death
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Apr. 25,03 Check Date: Apr. 25,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 01,03  (67 days of delay)
My wife and son are in the states. Today is my son's birthday, I could not see him and celebrate it with my family. The research in my lab is delayed. They say it's my Biochemistry PhD need 1-3 month security check. I don't know how long it will take eventually.

Miami University
N/A J1  (BEIJING) Visiting Scholar
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Mar. 14,03 Check Date: Mar. 14,03
Current Status:   Checking (179 days of delay)
Affect my normal work conditions

Miami University, Ohio
N/A F2  (BEIJING) to look after my wife
Major: Physics, remote sensing
Apply Date: Dec. 19,02 Check Date: Dec. 19,02
Current Status:   checking (264 days of delay)
I am waiting for going my wife's university to look after her. We are missing each other very much. The Embassy's delay make us apart from each other.

Michigan State Univ.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit family
Major: Biology, Cell & Molecular
Apply Date: Dec. 23,02 Check Date: Dec. 23,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 22,03  (150 days of delay)
Absence for the spring semester; Assistantship discontinued

Micron Technology
N/A   (Brussel)
Major: 
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jul. 01,02
Current Status:   pending (435 days of delay)
lose money $1500 per week lose position is things become worse

Mount Sinai School Of Medicine
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) post-doctoral research
Major: Biophysics
Apply Date: Jan. 30,03 Check Date: Jan. 30,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 19,03  (109 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) postdoctral
Major: immunology, clinic medicine
Apply Date: Jan. 27,03 Check Date: Jan. 27,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 24,03  (148 days of delay)

N/A
N/A J1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Mar. 28,03 Check Date: Mar. 28,03
Current Status:   still pending (165 days of delay)
N/A J1  (BEIJING) post doctor
Major: Biology
Apply Date: Jan. 08,03 Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   check (244 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Visiting parents
Major: Biology
Apply Date: Jan. 20,03 Check Date: Jan. 20,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 20,03  (151 days of delay)
The bad thing is 'delayed my research project', the good thing is 'had more time with my parents in China'. When I went to apply a visa, an US visa officer complained "few of you come back to China after studying in US". He did not say any about the terrorism and US security. I told him that I understood his concern.
N/A H1B  (SHENYANG)
Major: Biology,Cell
Apply Date: Jan. 23,03 Check Date: Jan. 23,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 13,03  (141 days of delay)
N/A B1  (Mexico city) Business travel to corporate headquarter
Major: Business
Apply Date: Jan. 24,03 Check Date: Jan. 24,03
Current Status:   Pending (228 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (Moscow) 75 days of visa delay
Major: Chemical engineering/Physics
Apply Date: Jun. 09,03 Check Date: Aug. 28,03
Current Status:   still waiting for approval (12 days of delay)
I work for GE and applyed for changing status from J1 to H1B. The petition was approved and I came to Russia in order to have my passport stamped. I am stuck here for 2.5 months: I had to wait my interview 1.5 months, after that they sent my applocation for "additional administrative processing", which is in reality obtaining security clearance. It was suposed to take 30days, but 35 days have alrady passed and I still have no news from them. General Electric can suspend my emplyment. HELP!!!!!
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Winter Vocation
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Dec. 31,02 Check Date: Dec. 31,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 16,03  (136 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Dec. 26,03 Check Date: Jan. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 05,03  (153 days of delay)
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) Pursue PHD
Major: Chemistry, Polymer materials
Apply Date: May. 28,03 Check Date: May. 28,03
Current Status:   Pending (104 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) MS
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 05,02 Check Date: Jul. 05,02
Current Status:   Pending (431 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Vacation, visiting family
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 02,03  (146 days of delay)
I have been waiting for the response from the Embassy for almost 4 months. I have already contacted my company, as well as the attorney. Unfortunately they can not do much more to help me out with this issue but call DC to check my status as many times as they can just like what I do. They also turned to the Senator of MA. But it doesn't work either. I have no objection against this kind of checking as it is all about security thing. But what I want to say is please expedite the whole process as possible as you can and give us a specific date when it can be done because the seem-to-take-forever delay is really having great terrible impact on my work and daily life. The suspended job I was doing, the car, the insurance, the bills, the rent... I have to take care of all the stuff. But how can I deal with them when I am in China? This has brought me too much trouble. Please take this concern into account and help us. Thank you very much.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Phd study
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 08,03 Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 18,03  (130 days of delay)
can't catch the entrance date 13/01/03 of spring term in CMU
N/A F2  (SHENYANG)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Feb. 28,03 Check Date: Feb. 28,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 23,03  (84 days of delay)
N/A   (Tokyo)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Sep. 01,02 Check Date: Oct. 01,02
Current Status:   Backgroud Checking (343 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jun. 02,03 Check Date: Jun. 02,03
Current Status:   pending (99 days of delay)
N/A L2  (BEIJING) Family Reunion
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Mar. 14,03 Check Date: Mar. 14,03
Current Status:   Pending (179 days of delay)
I called the VO twice and sent fax twice, but she just said I need to wait, wait..... I feel so sad and angery for waiting such long time.
N/A im V.  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Dec. 31,02 Check Date: Dec. 31,02
Current Status:   pending (252 days of delay)
My wife is applying her immigration visa in Guangzhou on Dec. 31, 2002, still waiting.
N/A H1B  (London, UK)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Aug. 22,02 Check Date: Sep. 17,02
Current Status:   pending (357 days of delay)
N/A L2  (BEIJING)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Feb. 18,03 Check Date: Mar. 04,03
Current Status:   pending (189 days of delay)
N/A J1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Sep. 26,02 Check Date: Sep. 26,02
Current Status:   still pending (348 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: May. 28,03 Check Date: May. 28,03
Current Status:   pending (104 days of delay)
gloomy
N/A H1B  (London, UK)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Feb. 25,03 Check Date: Feb. 25,03
Current Status:   waiting (196 days of delay)
Foreigner in the UK and very gloomy
N/A H4  (BEIJING) h4
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Apr. 03,03 Check Date: Apr. 03,03
Current Status:   still checking (159 days of delay)
N/A   (BEIJING)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Dec. 16,02 Check Date: Dec. 16,02
Current Status:   Approved on Feb. 10,03  (56 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (Tokyo) Work
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Sep. 01,02 Check Date: Oct. 01,02
Current Status:    (343 days of delay)
N/A H4  (BEIJING)
Major: chemical enginering
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jul. 12,02
Current Status:   rejected (424 days of delay)
i got Ph.d from chemical engineering department in USA, and i went back china to visit. i want to come back as H4 status because my wife is working in USA right now. i was checked since Dec,2002, and i was rejected in Apr.2003. the reason they use is that my marrige license is fake. acturally i married for more than 5 years, and I and my wife live together in USA for more than 5 years. and we have a two year old son who was born in USA too.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) study for a Ph.D program
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: May. 12,03 Check Date: May. 12,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 06,03  (25 days of delay)
I intend to begin my studies in summer semester, which begins on June.2. I am afraid that I will not be able to get my visa before that time.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) employment
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: Sep. 30,02 Check Date: Sep. 30,02
Current Status:   checked  (344 days of delay)
I had to wait for nearly 11 months but can do nothing.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) study
Major: chemistry, general
Apply Date: May. 20,03 Check Date: May. 20,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 27,03  (68 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (Brussel)
Major: electronics
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jul. 01,03
Current Status:   pending (70 days of delay)
lose 1500$ per week lose decent job offer if things become worse
N/A O3  (BEIJING) visit parents
Major: epidemiology
Apply Date: Mar. 10,03 Check Date: Mar. 10,03
Current Status:   still pending (183 days of delay)
My family are separated. I live here alone,but my husband has to take care of himself and son after whole day busy work,. I almost cry every night for missing my family and the present situation.I don't know how long I have to wait and what is the result I will get.The normal life of the whole family is affected so much. Just like another friend who is suffering for the same reason like me said: I am homeless now!I don't know whether the officers in embassy and DC understand what we are suffering now.
N/A F1  (SHENYANG) family
Major: materials science and engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 16,03 Check Date: Jan. 16,03
Current Status:   Approved on Feb. 20,03  (35 days of delay)
i was like one month later after Spring 2003 semester started.
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: neuroscience
Apply Date: Jun. 25,03 Check Date: Jun. 25,03
Current Status:   Approved on Sep. 08,03  (75 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: petroleum engineering
Apply Date: Apr. 04,03 Check Date: Apr. 04,03
Current Status:   pending (158 days of delay)
This incident put my family in a very difficult situation. My wife has to take care of my daughter (2nd grader) all by herself. Besides financial loss, this delay may also jeopardize my job.
N/A   (BEIJING)
Major: 
Apply Date: Mar. 19,03 Check Date: Mar. 19,03
Current Status:   pending (174 days of delay)
the project is delayed!
N/A H4  (BEIJING)
Major: 
Apply Date: Apr. 03,03 Check Date: Apr. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on Sep. 03,03  (158 days of delay)
I have been separated from my husband for 1 year. It's painful.

National Institute Of Health
N/A J1  (GUANGZHOU) Postdoctoral research
Major: Biology,Cell
Apply Date: Sep. 18,02 Check Date: Sep. 18,02
Current Status:   pending (356 days of delay)
Please help me. I lost some other opportunities because of it. I just want a result, even it may bad.

Nec Laboratories America, Princeton
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI) visiting relatives and some universities
Major: physics, optics
Apply Date: Dec. 18,02 Check Date: Dec. 18,02
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 28,03  (253 days of delay)
I applied for H1B visa in Shanghai on 12/18/2002 to go back to my work in the NEC Laboratories America, Inc. in Princeton, NJ. The consul told me that they need to do an administrative processing before granting me the visa. According to DOS, the cable was sent from Shanghai consulate to DOS on 12/18/2002 and DOS put me in "Name Check". Since then, a number of phone calls have been made to DOS by my friend, every time DOS answered with "in processing". The checking is still going on right now.

New Jersey Inst. Of Technology
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) visit family
Major: CS
Apply Date: Jun. 26,03 Check Date: Jun. 26,03
Current Status:   waiting (75 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) prusur my Phd degree
Major: Civil Engineering
Apply Date: Nov. 21,02 Check Date: Nov. 21,02
Current Status:   pending (292 days of delay)
N/A F1  (London, UK) Graduate study
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Aug. 15,03 Check Date: Aug. 15,03
Current Status:   Waiting (25 days of delay)
Probably I will lost my assistantship, and my opportunity to study in US
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Visiting parents
Major: Material
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 16,03  (130 days of delay)
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) visit my family
Major: civil engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 26,02 Check Date: Dec. 28,02
Current Status:   Approved on Mar. 03,03  (65 days of delay)
I lost my TA assistantship and dropped my course. Also, the checking procedure wasted my time.

New Mexico State University
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study
Major: Chemistry, General
Apply Date: May. 12,03 Check Date: May. 12,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 28,03  (108 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) study
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jun. 13,03 Check Date: Jun. 24,03
Current Status:   wait (77 days of delay)
Think it everyday!

New York University
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Research work
Major: Biophysics
Apply Date: Feb. 24,03 Check Date: Feb. 24,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 06,03  (102 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) To further my study and get my Ph.D.
Major: CHEMISTRY
Apply Date: Jul. 31,02 Check Date: Jul. 31,02
Current Status:   Still pending (405 days of delay)
Thank you very much.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) return
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   pending (246 days of delay)
N/A F1  (N/A)
Major: Management
Apply Date: Dec. 31,02 Check Date: Dec. 31,02
Current Status:    (252 days of delay)
N/A H4  (N/A)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   pending (245 days of delay)

North Carolina State University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Pursue PH.D
Major: Bioinformatics
Apply Date: Jun. 24,03 Check Date: Jun. 24,03
Current Status:   Early in Process (77 days of delay)
The class will begin at Aug 20. I can't attend school on time. The delay also break the research plan of my future professor. Both of us waste time and funding.
N/A J1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Chemistry, Inorganic
Apply Date: Jun. 09,03 Check Date: Jun. 09,03
Current Status:   cheked (92 days of delay)
I should go to North Carolina before July 1th, but
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) F1
Major: Civil Engineering
Apply Date: Nov. 25,02 Check Date: Nov. 25,02
Current Status:   WHO KNOWS (288 days of delay)
got the call from the consulate that my check is completed and I could get the visa with my new I20. two days later,they called again that a new check process will happen on me. just wait until now ft bu the DOS told me that the check is completed and I should contact the consulate directly
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: Crop Science
Apply Date: Mar. 25,03 Check Date: Mar. 25,03
Current Status:   Still Waiting (168 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 03,03 Check Date: Jul. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 06,03  (34 days of delay)
Almost no affects, except that I had to buy the ticket just a day before my departure date.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Apply Date: Apr. 17,03 Check Date: Apr. 17,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 16,03  (29 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Pursuing Ph.D degree
Major: Nuclear Engineering
Apply Date: May. 28,03 Check Date: May. 28,03
Current Status:   waiting (104 days of delay)
One month passed, still waiting, I hope that I can get the visa to enroll at the school in time.God bless me...
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) for Ph.D.
Major: Physics
Apply Date: May. 29,03 Check Date: May. 29,03
Current Status:   Pending (103 days of delay)

Northeastern University
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: 
Apply Date:  Check Date: Aug. 19,03
Current Status:    (21 days of delay)

Northwestern University
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Biological science
Apply Date: Jan. 22,03 Check Date: Jan. 22,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 03,03  (132 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 15,03 Check Date: Jul. 15,03
Current Status:   Waiting (56 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: May. 06,03 Check Date: May. 06,03
Current Status:    (126 days of delay)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
N/A J1  (SHANGHAI) family
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Dec. 30,02 Check Date: Dec. 30,02
Current Status:    (253 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (TORONTO)
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: May. 06,03 Check Date: May. 06,03
Current Status:   waiting (126 days of delay)

Ohio State University
N/A F1  (CHENGDU)
Major: Molecular Biology
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jun. 24,03
Current Status:    (77 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) PH.D. training
Major: Molecular genetics
Apply Date: Jul. 03,03 Check Date: Jul. 03,03
Current Status:   Unknown (68 days of delay)
53 days of delay, and I have to cancel the airticket. Once I call the Embassy for questions,the officers seldom tells my status.

Ohio University
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) See my family
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 16,02 Check Date: Dec. 16,02
Current Status:   still pending (267 days of delay)
I have waited for 5 months by now and don't know when it will be finished. I cannot find a normal job in China because I left all my offical education certificates in US. Please help me! Thank you very much!
N/A F1  (BEIJING) study
Major: Environmental Biology
Apply Date: Jul. 09,03 Check Date: Jul. 09,03
Current Status:   dalaying (62 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Ph.D
Major: Medicine
Apply Date: Jul. 08,03 Check Date: Jul. 08,03
Current Status:   waiting for nothing (63 days of delay)
Maybe I should ask my friend in US to find a lawyer for me. The waiting cost me too much. And the shit Bush Government should be responsible for all of these. The checking will not be help to the national security. WHen he angers more and more people, more 9.11 will come, which we do not want to.
N/A F2  (BEIJING)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jul. 17,02 Check Date: Aug. 07,02
Current Status:    (398 days of delay)
N/A   (N/A)
Major: electrical engineering
Apply Date: Aug. 09,02 Check Date: Aug. 12,02
Current Status:    (393 days of delay)

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
N/A H1B  (CHENGDU) Research work
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 02,02 Check Date: Dec. 02,02
Current Status:   Still pending(150 days of delay) (281 days of delay)
My work in Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation was supposed to start this February. But five months has passed. My case is still pending. My future supervisor's project has been influenced because of this.

Oklahoma State University
N/A H1B  (BERLIN) postdoc
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Oct. 01,02 Check Date: Oct. 01,02
Current Status:   pending (343 days of delay)
My H1b was approved on 11/14/01. I first applied the H1b in consulate in Berlin on 01/07/02. The VO told me that my documents should be sent to Washington. I waited for 5 months and fax to the VO, then I got the denial. I sent my application again in the end of August. I had a interview on 10/01/02. Then the same story began again. The Oklahoma State University, the lawyer and the sentor called Washington. In the middle of January of 2003, the DOs said that it would finish in 6-8 weeks. But in this March, nothing improved. Calling them again, the answer is pending.
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jun. 05,03
Current Status:    (96 days of delay)

Old Dominion University
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visit parents
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 10,02 Check Date: Dec. 20,02
Current Status:   waiting for the visa (263 days of delay)
I have waited for my VISA for more than 5 month. I miss my husband very much. He is in USA. I really hope to join him as soon as possible. In plan, I should pass my Ph.D qualify exam in the spring semester,2003. But because of the VISA check, I have to postpone it to the future. All my research will be left behind the schedule.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Family emergency
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date:  Check Date: Apr. 11,03
Current Status:   Pending (151 days of delay)

Oregon Health & Science University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit my family
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Apply Date: Mar. 28,03 Check Date: Apr. 01,03
Current Status:   Still waiting.  (161 days of delay)
I dropped my courses for the spring quarter, do not know if I can get visa within 3 months. Otherwise, I will continue absent my summer quarter.
N/A H1B  (BERLIN) family reunion
Major: Neuroscience
Apply Date: Jan. 24,03 Check Date: Jan. 24,03
Current Status:    (228 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Research Fellow
Major: Physiology
Apply Date: Jan. 21,03 Check Date: Feb. 11,03
Current Status:   waiting for backgroud check (210 days of delay)
I was out of job and pay since application of visa. Indefinite waiting may result in my lost of the position offered by the US professor since I was expected to fill the position before the end of Feburary 2003. The professor's NIH-funded research project has been delayed by my absence.
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visit family
Major: biomedicine
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   pending (245 days of delay)
Missed 2 quarters. two research projects suspended. research papers delayed.

Pennsylvania State University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study for PHD
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 02,02 Check Date: Jul. 02,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 20,03  (322 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 28,02 Check Date: Jun. 28,02
Current Status:   pending (438 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study
Major: Civil Engineeting
Apply Date: Aug. 08,03 Check Date: Aug. 08,03
Current Status:   Pending (32 days of delay)
Delay for the registration.
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Electronics
Apply Date: Jun. 16,03 Check Date: Jun. 16,03
Current Status:    (85 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Get Married
Major: ME
Apply Date: Jan. 08,03 Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   Approved on Sep. 03,03  (238 days of delay)
I have reported my case. Now I just want to change my email since my old is expired by my university for too long time wait.
N/A F1  (SHENYANG) Visit my family
Major: Materials
Apply Date: Dec. 31,02 Check Date: Dec. 31,02
Current Status:    (252 days of delay)
I have waited for 4 months already. I missed the whole semester. I hope this will help us out.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) returning
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Nov. 04,02 Check Date: Nov. 04,02
Current Status:   Approved on Dec. 10,02  (36 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Ph.D
Major: mechanical engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 17,03 Check Date: Jun. 17,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 15,03  (59 days of delay)
I was checked by glassboy yesterday, and I believe that he checked me because there is laser in advisor's webpage. he told me,"I will give you a visa, but I will check you, ok? you will wait for a month."
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Get married.
Major: mechanical engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 08,03 Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   Security Check (244 days of delay)
The whole project was stopped, and my courses have to be canceled. Now just worried about my research work and study every day.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: physiology
Apply Date: Apr. 18,03 Check Date: Apr. 18,03
Current Status:   waitting (144 days of delay)

Polytechnic University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Ph.D. degree
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: Jun. 06,03 Check Date: Jun. 06,03
Current Status:   waiting (95 days of delay)

Princeton University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) PhD Study
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Jun. 11,03 Check Date: Jun. 11,03
Current Status:   Pending (90 days of delay)
Killing me softly
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 08,03 Check Date: Jul. 08,03
Current Status:   waiting (63 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study
Major: Molecular Biology
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jun. 17,03
Current Status:   pending (84 days of delay)
My registration to the graduate program maybe delayed if I can't get the visa in Aug.

Purdue University
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) Mother was in hospital
Major: Analytical Chemistry
Apply Date: Dec. 26,02 Check Date: Dec. 27,02
Current Status:   processing (256 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study
Major: Astrophysics
Apply Date: Jun. 16,03 Check Date: Jun. 16,03
Current Status:    (85 days of delay)
I don't know when I can get my visa.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study for Ph.D.
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Jul. 01,03 Check Date: Jul. 01,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 18,03  (17 days of delay)
It delays my future plan. If I can not get my visa before Aug 22, I will miss the chance of study.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study
Major: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Apply Date: Jun. 16,03 Check Date: Jun. 16,03
Current Status:   I Don't know (85 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: CE
Apply Date: Jul. 18,03 Check Date: Jul. 18,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 28,03  (41 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Medicinal Chemistry
Apply Date:  Check Date: May. 29,03
Current Status:   pending (103 days of delay)
It is the seventh week since I was checked, but they promised to call me in four weeks. Now they told me it's pending. I was informed to arrive before 08/18/03 to join TA training and exams. They delayed my entire plan. HELP!
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Ph.D study
Major: Nuclear Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 10,02 Check Date: Jul. 10,02
Current Status:   check (426 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: genetics
Apply Date: Jul. 31,03 Check Date: Jul. 31,03
Current Status:   unknown (40 days of delay)
Up to now I haven't heard any news about my visa application yet. According to my original I-20 form, I should arrive at Purdue before Aug 25th. I have discussed this problem with Purdue and they have agreed that I can get there as late as Sep. 26th, or they will cancel this offer. So now I am really quite eager to know the status of my visa.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Education
Major: ME
Apply Date: Jun. 12,03 Check Date: Jun. 12,03
Current Status:   checking (89 days of delay)
I may miss the registration time for my study at RPI
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Postdoctoral RA
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Apply Date: May. 14,03 Check Date: May. 14,03
Current Status:   Checking (118 days of delay)
I am expected to assume my duty on June 1. It is definitely impossible.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) checkee
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: May. 12,03 Check Date: May. 12,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 06,03  (25 days of delay)
Can i enroll at RPI in time? God bless me!
N/A H1B  (GUANGZHOU) post-doc
Major: genetics
Apply Date: Oct. 25,02 Check Date: Oct. 25,02
Current Status:   Pending  (319 days of delay)
The offer was vain and the position was filled. Moreover, I can not get another offer. As I must wait for the checking result. If I apply another visa, It need check again.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: physics
Apply Date: Dec. 30,02 Check Date: Dec. 30,02
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 14,03  (227 days of delay)
N/A F2  (SHANGHAI) to accompany with my husband
Major: 
Apply Date:  Check Date: Dec. 30,02
Current Status:   pending (253 days of delay)

Rhodes College
N/A H1B  (GUANGZHOU) Research Associate
Major: Genetics
Apply Date: Feb. 24,03 Check Date: Feb. 24,03
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 14,03  (49 days of delay)

Rice University
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 02,03  (147 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: physics
Apply Date: May. 20,03 Check Date: May. 20,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 27,03  (99 days of delay)
I am worried. I am down. I feel upset and terrible. I can't put up with it. I am not afraid of waiting, I just hate to wait for uncertainty.
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: physics
Apply Date: Jun. 06,03 Check Date: Jun. 06,03
Current Status:    (95 days of delay)

Rockfeller University
N/A H1B  (US Embassy Tel Aviv) Research
Major: Biology
Apply Date: Aug. 08,02 Check Date: Aug. 08,02
Current Status:   Visa issued. (397 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (GUANGZHOU) postdoc
Major: biophysics
Apply Date: Nov. 21,02 Check Date: Nov. 21,02
Current Status:   still waiting (292 days of delay)

Rutgers University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study
Major: EE
Apply Date: Jul. 08,03 Check Date: Jul. 08,03
Current Status:   Waiting (63 days of delay)
Passport kept Study Schedule messed up All Travelling Schedule Ruined
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) marry my GF and visit my parents
Major: Materials
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 21,03  (226 days of delay)
I went back China with my classmates on Dec. 25, 2002. I got checked while all my classmates were not. We study the same subjects. I can not understand also that why the checking time is much longer in Guangzhou than in Beijing or Shanghai.
N/A F2  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   Still waiting (245 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Oceanography
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jun. 05,02
Current Status:   pending (461 days of delay)

Scripps Institute
N/A J1  (US Consulate, Milan) Visit
Major: Molecular Immunology
Apply Date: Dec. 11,02 Check Date: Dec. 11,02
Current Status:    (272 days of delay)
This long visa waiting has created big problem for my career, and put me into an embarrssing situation immediately after I obtained my Ph. D. I should have started my Postdoc work from the 1st April. My boss there is very kind, but can not do any help.

Southern Illinois Univ. Carbondale
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit grandma and parents
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 08,03 Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 23,03  (166 days of delay)
My Ph.D study was disruptted. And also for the first time, I suffer from the unexpected long seperation from my husband since we got married 6 years ago.
N/A F1  (N/A)
Major: Environmental Resources and Policy
Apply Date: Dec. 20,02 Check Date: Dec. 20,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 14,03  (206 days of delay)
I feel angry about the long time delay! I complain the visa officer. She believed my major is related to public policy and shoud be checked. It is absurd that environmental policy can threat the security. I complain the government. Please give me a reason that my case need more time than the chemistry case. Another two Chinese students from my school majoring in Chemistry got checked in December too, but they got reply in Jan.28 and went back soon. How the environmental case needs longer time than the chemistry case?! Give me a reason! I never change major, school and status in US. My parents are almost seventies. I just want to finish my study and come back to support them as soon as possible. But they still worry about my situation! I hope the government could speed up our cases and at least check in which process our cases are delayed.

Stanford University
N/A J1  (BEIJING) Post-doc
Major: Biology, Reproductive
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jun. 04,03
Current Status:   pending (97 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: Biophysics
Apply Date: Jan. 16,03 Check Date: Jan. 16,03
Current Status:   still waiting (236 days of delay)
I can not begin my postdoc research work in time!!!
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: Biophysics
Apply Date: Jan. 16,03 Check Date: Jan. 16,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 03,03  (168 days of delay)
N/A J1  (SHANGHAI) Postdoctoral Research
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Apr. 22,03 Check Date: Apr. 22,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 05,03  (44 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Visit family in China
Major: Civil Engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 16,02 Check Date: Dec. 18,02
Current Status:   Pending (265 days of delay)
The check totally disrupted my study and research plan. It wasted my three and a half months already and no one knows how much more time it is going to waste.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study for PhD degree
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 25,03 Check Date: Jun. 25,03
Current Status:   Checked (76 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) study
Major: Environmental Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 08,03 Check Date: Jul. 08,03
Current Status:   pending (63 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) study
Major: Materials Science & Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 22,02 Check Date: Jul. 22,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 29,03  (372 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Jul. 13,03 Check Date: Jul. 13,03
Current Status:    (58 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Jul. 19,02 Check Date: Jul. 19,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 09,03  (355 days of delay)
N/A J1  (SHANGHAI) pursue postdoctoral training
Major: genetics
Apply Date: Mar. 25,03 Check Date: Mar. 25,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 25,03  (61 days of delay)
N/A J1  (Tokyo) for a work report
Major: physics, semiconductor
Apply Date: Nov. 01,02 Check Date: Nov. 21,02
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 14,03  (266 days of delay)
I have already started my research work at Stanford University from May 2001. I came to Japan in Oct., 2002 for a work report.(intending only a brief visit). Unfortunately, my visa is not issued as of today(about five months). I have to stay in Japan waiting for my visa.
N/A J1  (BEIJING) researcher
Major: reproductive Biology
Apply Date: Jun. 04,03 Check Date: Jun. 04,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 08,03  (34 days of delay)

State University Of New York At Stony Brook
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study for Ph.D degree
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Jun. 16,03 Check Date: Jun. 16,03
Current Status:   pending (85 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: ECE
Apply Date: Jul. 03,03 Check Date: Jul. 03,03
Current Status:   Pending (68 days of delay)
I was notified by the university that if I still can not attend by Sep.3th, my adimission will be canceled and my TA will be transfered to other student.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) summer vacation
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: Aug. 15,03 Check Date: Aug. 15,03
Current Status:   pending (25 days of delay)

Suny At Buffalo
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Chemical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 16,03  (130 days of delay)
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) Pursue PHD
Major: Medicine, stomatology
Apply Date: Jun. 18,03 Check Date: Jun. 18,03
Current Status:   Pending (83 days of delay)

Suny At Stony Brook
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) see my parents during winter break
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 03,03 Check Date: Jan. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 12,03  (129 days of delay)
I am a returning F-1 student who is pursuing my Ph.D. degree in SUNY at Stony Brook.My first entry to the states was on Aug. 9, 2001.i got checked on Jan. 3,2003 in the American Consulate General in Shanghai.Now almost 3 months has passed, my case is still pending. thank you for your help!
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) pursue Ph.D degree
Major: computer science
Apply Date: Jan. 08,03 Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 14,03  (218 days of delay)

Suny Of Environmental Science
N/A F1  (BEIJING) study
Major: Environmental Resource Engineering
Apply Date: Nov. 15,02 Check Date: Nov. 05,02
Current Status:   pending (308 days of delay)

Syracuse University, Ny
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) visiting parents
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 18,02 Check Date: Dec. 27,02
Current Status:   still pending (256 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visit my parents for the winter vacation
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 23,03  (229 days of delay)

Temple University
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 21,03 Check Date: Jan. 21,03
Current Status:   Pending (231 days of delay)

Texas A&M University
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 03,03 Check Date: Jun. 03,03
Current Status:   Pending (98 days of delay)
Fear to miss the registration!
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Visit husband and parents
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Apply Date: Dec. 24,02 Check Date: Dec. 24,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 03,03  (161 days of delay)
A lot, from every aspect, research, study, family and future plan

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
N/A F1  (N/A)
Major: Civil Eng.
Apply Date: Aug. 04,03 Check Date: Aug. 04,03
Current Status:    (36 days of delay)

Texas A&M University
N/A H1B  (US Consulate, Milan) To attend a conference meeting
Major: Mathematics
Apply Date: Oct. 30,02 Check Date: Nov. 04,02
Current Status:   Approved on Dec. 12,02  (38 days of delay)
I am a visiting assistant professor of Texas A&M university. I stayed in Italy for nearly 50 days even though I only planed to stay for 7 days. It was extremely difficult and the Chinese embassy in Milan refused to provide any help. Here is a piece of advise, if you are stuck in a third country, try as much as you can to stay there as any cost.
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 02,03 Check Date: Jul. 02,03
Current Status:   Pending (69 days of delay)
N/A F2  (SHENYANG)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Feb. 16,03 Check Date: Feb. 28,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 28,03  (89 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Visit parents
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Jan. 10,03 Check Date: Jan. 10,03
Current Status:   Still pending (242 days of delay)
The accomplishment of current project is postponed. And the new project is pending. Lost the chance to attend meeting in Russia. Have no idea when I can graduate.
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: biomedical
Apply Date: Jul. 25,03 Check Date: Jul. 25,03
Current Status:   Approved on Sep. 02,03  (45 days of delay)
I may can not catch the admission date
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) post-doc
Major: medicine, veterinary
Apply Date: Mar. 05,03 Check Date: Mar. 05,03
Current Status:   pending (188 days of delay)
Have done nothing, just waiting for the reply.

Texas Christian University
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) student
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: May. 12,03 Check Date: May. 12,03
Current Status:    on checked (120 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHENYANG) study for PhD degree
Major: physics
Apply Date: Jul. 12,02 Check Date: Jul. 12,02
Current Status:   waiting (424 days of delay)
I have been waiting for 9 months.Who knows when the CHECK will end? It's obvious they don't want our Chinese students to study in the USA.I will change my study plan if the check continues.

The Burnham Institute, San Diego, Ca
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) as surgeon in affiliated hospital of university
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 09,03 Check Date: Jan. 09,03
Current Status:   still pending (243 days of delay)

The Jackson Laboratory
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) visit my family
Major: Bio-Med
Apply Date: Dec. 27,02 Check Date: Jan. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 30,03  (147 days of delay)
Research plans, grant and my student are negatively, strongly affected!

The Ohio State University
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Christmas vacation
Major: Chemical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Pending (246 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: May. 28,03 Check Date: May. 28,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 10,03  (43 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Civil Engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 18,03 Check Date: Jun. 18,03
Current Status:    (83 days of delay)
N/A F2  (BEIJING) Join with husband
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jul. 17,02 Check Date: Aug. 07,02
Current Status:   Pending (398 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Studying
Major: Pharmacy
Apply Date: Jul. 08,03 Check Date: Jul. 08,03
Current Status:   waiting (63 days of delay)
puzzling
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) postdoc
Major: biochemistry
Apply Date: Mar. 27,03 Check Date: Mar. 27,03
Current Status:   pending (166 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) pursue Ph.D.
Major: biochemistry, molecular
Apply Date: Jan. 22,03 Check Date: Jan. 22,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 03,03  (132 days of delay)
1000 was checked on jan 22 and no news till now.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study for PhD.
Major: biophysics
Apply Date: Jun. 24,03 Check Date: Jun. 24,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 24,03  (30 days of delay)
Hope to get the visa soon!!
N/A F1  (BEIJING) study
Major: chemical engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 14,03 Check Date: Jul. 14,03
Current Status:   check (57 days of delay)
can't arrive before the deadline.
N/A   (SHANGHAI)
Major: 
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 14,03  (220 days of delay)

The Pennsylvania University
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 02,02 Check Date: Jul. 02,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 20,03  (322 days of delay)
almost one year!

The Univeristy Of Texas Gsbs
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Neuroscience
Apply Date: Dec. 17,02 Check Date: Dec. 17,02
Current Status:   pending (266 days of delay)

The University Of Mississippi
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: chemical engineering
Apply Date: Feb. 26,03 Check Date: Feb. 26,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 29,03  (184 days of delay)
have no mood to do everything.

Thomas Jefferson University
N/A J1  (BEIJING) visiting parents
Major: N/A
Apply Date: May. 14,02 Check Date: May. 14,02
Current Status:   Waiting visa (483 days of delay)
I have to wait the visa for a long time.

Tufts University
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) postdoc
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date:  Check Date: Mar. 14,03
Current Status:   still pending (179 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Mar. 31,03 Check Date: Mar. 31,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 27,03  (149 days of delay)

TUFTS UNIVERSITY
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Jul. 02,03 Check Date: Jul. 02,03
Current Status:    (69 days of delay)

Tulan University
N/A J1  (SHANGHAI) postdoctoral training
Major: Immunology
Apply Date: Dec. 30,02 Check Date: Dec. 30,02
Current Status:   still pending! (253 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) postdoc
Major: chemistry, physical
Apply Date: Apr. 01,03 Check Date: Apr. 01,03
Current Status:   waitting and waitting (161 days of delay)

U. Of Missouri-Rolla
N/A F1  (SHENYANG) study
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: May. 16,03 Check Date: May. 16,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 26,03  (41 days of delay)
I hope it will be finished before the matriculate day in August.

U.Connecticut (Uchc)
N/A J1  (BEIJING) Visiter scholar
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Feb. 25,03 Check Date: Feb. 25,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 06,03  (101 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) study
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Apply Date:  Check Date: May. 27,03
Current Status:   waitiing (105 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) see mother
Major: physics
Apply Date: Jul. 21,03 Check Date: Jul. 21,03
Current Status:   waiting (50 days of delay)

Uinversity Of New Mexico
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) My dad passed away
Major: EE
Apply Date: Jun. 24,03 Check Date: Jul. 01,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 28,03  (69 days of delay)
My 18-mon. son is still in US with my husband, and my husband has to both work and take care of the baby. I am missing my family very much. I need to attend a confrerence in CA on Sep. 1-3, need enough time to prepare.

Univ. Of California, Santa Barbara
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Chemical Engineering
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jun. 30,03
Current Status:    (71 days of delay)
N/A F1  (Singapore) Ph.D. study
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Jun. 10,03 Check Date: Jun. 17,03
Current Status:   waiting (84 days of delay)
Semester open in early Sep, hope to get visa before that.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit my parents
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 16,02 Check Date: Dec. 26,02
Current Status:   Approved on Mar. 11,03  (75 days of delay)
planed to take a vacation around christmas for about 4weeks, but it prelonged to more than 3 months. research scheldue got significant delayed due to tis
N/A J1  (BEIJING) Attend an international conference
Major: Mathematics
Apply Date: Jul. 24,02 Check Date: Jul. 24,02
Current Status:   Pending (412 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Visit parents
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Dec. 17,02 Check Date: Dec. 17,02
Current Status:   still pending (266 days of delay)

Univ. Of Illinois At Urbana
N/A J1  (SHANGHAI) visiting my parents
Major: Bio, Microbiology and Genetic Engineering
Apply Date: Feb. 11,03 Check Date: Feb. 11,03
Current Status:   Pending (210 days of delay)
It is so annoying and frustrating to wait here without anything I can do. I don't know how to arrange my time cause I never know when I can get the visa, or I cannot get the visa.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) vacation
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 06,03  (151 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visiting husband and parents
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Apply Date: Aug. 09,02 Check Date: Aug. 09,02
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 10,03  (244 days of delay)
I've done all I can do, called and faxed the Beijing US embassy, had my friend in US call DOS. All this have no help.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: Engineering
Apply Date: Sep. 28,02 Check Date: Sep. 28,02
Current Status:    (346 days of delay)
N/A F2  (BEIJING) visit my family
Major: Geophysics
Apply Date: Mar. 14,03 Check Date: Mar. 14,03
Current Status:   Pending (179 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Phd
Major: Materials Science
Apply Date: May. 20,03 Check Date: May. 20,03
Current Status:   pending (112 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Visit parents
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 09,03 Check Date: Jan. 09,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 21,03  (193 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Nuclear Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 15,02 Check Date: Jul. 15,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 13,03  (302 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study for PhD degree
Major: Nuclear Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 03,02 Check Date: Jul. 03,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 14,03  (315 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Visiting parents
Major: Urban Planning
Apply Date: Jan. 08,03 Check Date: Jan. 15,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 31,03  (136 days of delay)
It has been almost three months. Many other H1-b checkees who were after me have got their visa. It looks like no one who applied around my time (early Jan.) has heard anything from the Embassy. Have called the State Department three times but always was told 'pending', no more information provided.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit my family
Major: landscape architecture
Apply Date: Jul. 01,03 Check Date: Jul. 03,03
Current Status:   waiting (68 days of delay)

Univ. Of Kentucky, College Of Pharmacy
N/A F1  (N/A) Visit Family
Major: Pharmacy
Apply Date: Jan. 03,03 Check Date: Jan. 03,03
Current Status:    (249 days of delay)

Univeristy Of Iowa
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) visit family and vacation
Major: Pharmacy
Apply Date: Aug. 01,03 Check Date: Aug. 01,03
Current Status:   pending (39 days of delay)
I have to quite my TA appointment. My proposal defense and thesis work have to be postponed.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Physics
Apply Date: May. 28,03 Check Date: May. 28,03
Current Status:   Pending (104 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study
Major: biochemistry
Apply Date: May. 28,03 Check Date: May. 28,03
Current Status:   pending (104 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: medicine
Apply Date: Mar. 19,03 Check Date: Mar. 19,03
Current Status:   still pending (174 days of delay)

Univeristy Of Louisville
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 02,03 Check Date: Jan. 02,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 21,03  (200 days of delay)

University Of Alabama
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visit my wife in China
Major: Chemical Engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 20,02 Check Date: Dec. 20,02
Current Status:   I don' t know (263 days of delay)
My research subject is almost stopped because of the damn checking.

University Of Alabama At Birmingham
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) postdoctoral research
Major: Bio, toxicology
Apply Date: Oct. 29,02 Check Date: Oct. 29,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 11,03  (255 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Pathology
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 29,03  (204 days of delay)

University Of Alabama At Tuscaloosa
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Further Education
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: May. 28,03 Check Date: May. 28,03
Current Status:   Pending (104 days of delay)

University Of Arizona
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Ph.D. Study
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 02,03 Check Date: Jun. 02,03
Current Status:   pending (99 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study Ph. D.
Major: Chemical Engineering
Apply Date: Apr. 17,03 Check Date: Apr. 17,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 18,03  (92 days of delay)
On Dec. 10, 2002, I went to apply F-1 visa. I was checked for TAL( Technology Alert List). I missed the enrollment date for Spring Semester just for the check delay though it was approved at last. On April 17, 2003, I went to the US Consulate General in Shanghai to apply for the Autumn Semester visa, I was checked again for SAO(Security Advisory Opinion). I do not understand I was checked twice though I applied the same university, same major. I still have not received any information Since April 17, though I have sent at least more than 10 faxes to the Consulate.
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visit family in China
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 03,03 Check Date: Jan. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 23,03  (232 days of delay)
As a fourth year graduate student (Ph.D), my study plan is severely delayed, which directly affects my expected graduation date. Two conferences (one in America and one in France) have to be canceled. My research assistant position is also affected.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Ph.D study
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: May. 19,03 Check Date: May. 19,03
Current Status:   pending (113 days of delay)

University Of Arkansas
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Vacation
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Feb. 24,03 Check Date: Feb. 26,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 11,03  (105 days of delay)
Long vaction at my home with my family. enjoyed staying home for more than 5 months (have not done this for 20 years+); and made my mom mad sometimes: told her to much what to do or not for her own good(at least I think so); she is old and stubborn, and she IS my mom; enjoyed the New Year firecrackers, Jiaozi; enjoyed grow plants and watched them growing, blossoming, and fruiting. Helped harvest wheat. Lost two plan tickets(returnning, the first time ever fixed the damn returning date). The wife of mine enjoyed staying for more than 2 months and playing MaJiang almost everyday at home. (I might write a story talking about this unexpected experience). I support whatever you are doing! Life is tough and easy and interesting, enjoy!
N/A H1B  (GUANGZHOU) post-doctoral
Major: biology
Apply Date: Oct. 31,02 Check Date: Oct. 31,02
Current Status:   still pending (313 days of delay)
N/A   (BEIJING)
Major: 
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jun. 16,03
Current Status:    (85 days of delay)

University Of California
N/A H1B  (Hong Kong) Work
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Apr. 11,02 Check Date: Apr. 11,02
Current Status:   Pending (516 days of delay)
I have contacted the Boston congressman, California Senator and Director, Office of Public and Diplomatic Liaison, Visa Services, DAS's director. DOS told our all waiting, waiting, waiting. I have waited almost one year. How long do one's life usually has? Many persons' valuable time have been resumed in the unknown long waiting. This check rate has seriously impacted to the science research and education in last year. We all would like that DOS and DHS, as well as security agencies can speed up this clearance of long pending cases, particurlarly on those cases for more than 6 months' waiting.
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI) visit family
Major: Biology, Protein expression
Apply Date: Dec. 23,02 Check Date: Feb. 26,03
Current Status:   waiting (195 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: EE
Apply Date: Apr. 07,03 Check Date: Apr. 07,03
Current Status:   pending (155 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Mechanical Engineering Department
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 16,03  (128 days of delay)
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) Mother's illness
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 09,03 Check Date: Jan. 09,03
Current Status:   still pending (243 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit my parents and friends
Major: Plant Biology
Apply Date: Jan. 30,03 Check Date: Jan. 30,03
Current Status:   still pending (222 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit my parents and firends
Major: biology
Apply Date: Jan. 22,03 Check Date: Jan. 30,03
Current Status:   pending (222 days of delay)
N/A   (BEIJING)
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: Jul. 29,03 Check Date: Jul. 29,03
Current Status:    (42 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) study
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: Jun. 17,03 Check Date: Jun. 17,03
Current Status:   pending (84 days of delay)
may miss the term beginning and wait untill next quater
N/A F1  (BEIJING) re entry
Major: mechanical engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 01,02 Check Date: Jul. 02,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 14,03  (316 days of delay)
because of this security check, I lost thousands of money, some for rent, some for my car. I have waited for9 months already, but no one just take the responsibility for my loss. I am really driven mad now.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) to study for ph.D degree
Major: plant pathology
Apply Date: Jun. 16,03 Check Date: Jun. 16,03
Current Status:   waiting (85 days of delay)
I worried that it will delay me to report in the UCDavis. The starting date for fall term in UCDavis is 8, Sep.

University Of California, Berkeley
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Study
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 08,03 Check Date: Jul. 08,03
Current Status:   Checked (63 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Family Emergency
Major: NE
Apply Date:  Check Date: Aug. 04,03
Current Status:    (36 days of delay)

University Of California, La
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Feb. 20,03 Check Date: Feb. 20,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 04,03  (104 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Went back home to see my mom
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 02,03  (146 days of delay)
I got F1 checked back to UCLA. I am in Beijing waiitng for my VISA result. I applied absence for spring quarter. My phone in my home town cannot be reached, since my family is working. I am in beijing, my phone is 10-62576081 or 13701393283.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) see his mom
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 30,03  (144 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI) postdoc
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Feb. 12,03 Check Date: Feb. 12,03
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 03,03  (50 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI) first entry
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Mar. 12,03 Check Date: Mar. 12,03
Current Status:   pending (181 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) apply visa with my husband
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Mar. 20,03 Check Date: Mar. 20,03
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 10,03  (21 days of delay)
I was checked because the officer could not find my information in their database. I dont know why. I applied the visa with the new I-20, the one that all my data have been entered the SEVIS system. Although the officer promised to issue me the visa, but she could not because of the reason that I mentioned above.

University Of California, Riverside
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Visit Parents
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Dec. 27,02 Check Date: Dec. 27,02
Current Status:   still pending (256 days of delay)

University Of California, San Diego
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: Biophysics
Apply Date: Jan. 23,03 Check Date: Jan. 23,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 14,03  (111 days of delay)
My work in UCSD was supposed to start this January. But three months has passed. My case is still pending. My future supervisor's project has been influenced because of this.
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI) visit family and revalid visa stamp
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 21,03 Check Date: Jan. 21,03
Current Status:   still pending (231 days of delay)
All belongings left in US, have to pay rent of apartment, all bills, etc.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) homesick
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jul. 02,02 Check Date: Jul. 02,02
Current Status:   still pending (434 days of delay)
N/A J1  (BEIJING) Visit my wife
Major: Phyiscs
Apply Date: Jul. 16,02 Check Date: Jul. 16,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 18,03  (337 days of delay)
No job, no income, no career, just desperate waiting. Boss' project cannot be finished without me. Also the American PhD student collaborating with me needs me to help him graduate. What am I gonna do? Still waiting for another year? What is my boss gonna do? He could not find a way to help me either.

University Of California, Santa Cruz
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) study
Major: genetics
Apply Date:  Check Date: Mar. 31,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 21,03  (112 days of delay)

University Of Central Florida
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Postdoc
Major: Chemistry, Organic
Apply Date: Feb. 11,03 Check Date: Feb. 11,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 02,03  (111 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Computer Engineering
Apply Date: Oct. 23,02 Check Date: Oct. 23,02
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 11,03  (170 days of delay)

University Of Chicago
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit parents and get married
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Apr. 13,03 Check Date: Apr. 16,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 29,03  (135 days of delay)
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) Study
Major: Medical Physics
Apply Date: Jul. 10,03 Check Date: Jul. 31,03
Current Status:    (40 days of delay)
The admission and fellowship might be cancelled if I can't arrive US before the register date of Sept.20th.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Pursue Ph.D.
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Jul. 17,02 Check Date: Jul. 17,02
Current Status:   waiting (419 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit parents
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Mar. 17,03 Check Date: Mar. 17,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 25,03  (161 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit parents
Major: physics
Apply Date: Mar. 17,03 Check Date: Mar. 17,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 25,03  (161 days of delay)
I got visa after waiting for about five months. My academic and financial loss is huge.

University Of Cincinnati
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jul. 09,03
Current Status:   IN PROCESS (62 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Collaborative Research
Major: Genetics, Human
Apply Date: Mar. 05,03 Check Date: Mar. 27,03
Current Status:   pending (166 days of delay)
My research project in UC was negtively affected due to the security check.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: IMMUNOLOGY, MOLECULAR
Apply Date: Jan. 29,03 Check Date: Jan. 29,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 29,03  (120 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visiting family
Major: Industrial Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:    (246 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visit parents
Major: biology, molecular
Apply Date: Dec. 31,02 Check Date: Dec. 31,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 15,03  (196 days of delay)
Unlimited and hopeless waiting for over five months. I miss my comfortable sofa ,DVD and the little apartment. I want to continue my academic career.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) parants
Major: pharmacology
Apply Date: Aug. 25,03 Check Date: Aug. 25,03
Current Status:   pending (15 days of delay)

University Of Colorado
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Mar. 17,03 Check Date: Mar. 17,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 30,03  (135 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Mar. 17,03 Check Date: Mar. 17,03
Current Status:   pending (176 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Geography
Apply Date: Jun. 17,03 Check Date: Jun. 17,03
Current Status:   Denied (84 days of delay)
denied twice (June 17th and July 3rd)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) grandma get cancer
Major: electrical engineering, optics major
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 13,03  (127 days of delay)
i have been unite states for 2.5 years, it is ridiculous to have me wait for so long.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) postdoc researcher
Major: genetics, molecular
Apply Date:  Check Date: Apr. 09,03
Current Status:    (153 days of delay)
A important NIH funded project is suspended and seriously hurt.
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: mechanical system, Buiding System Program
Apply Date: Dec. 18,02 Check Date: Dec. 18,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 30,03  (163 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: medicine
Apply Date: Mar. 20,03 Check Date: Mar. 20,03
Current Status:   still pending (173 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) study
Major: physics
Apply Date: May. 28,03 Check Date: May. 28,03
Current Status:   pending (104 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: physics
Apply Date: May. 28,03 Check Date: May. 28,03
Current Status:    (104 days of delay)

University Of Delaware
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Chemical Engineering
Apply Date: Apr. 01,03 Check Date: Apr. 01,03
Current Status:   Check (161 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) pursue phd
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 05,02 Check Date: Jul. 05,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 30,03  (360 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Pursuit my PH.D Degree
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Apply Date: Apr. 29,03 Check Date: Apr. 29,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 05,03  (37 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) study
Major: physics
Apply Date: May. 20,03 Check Date: May. 20,03
Current Status:   pending (112 days of delay)
waiting......

University Of Florida
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Dec. 26,02 Check Date: Dec. 26,02
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 11,03  (106 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visit family
Major: Chemistry, Organic
Apply Date: Feb. 18,03 Check Date: Feb. 18,03
Current Status:   Approved on Sep. 02,03  (196 days of delay)
N/A H4  (BEIJING) H4
Major: EE
Apply Date: Mar. 18,03 Check Date: Mar. 18,03
Current Status:   waiting (175 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Visiting family
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 13,02 Check Date: Dec. 13,02
Current Status:   Approved on Feb. 06,03  (55 days of delay)
Staying at home, worried about my research work.
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) brief family visit during winter break
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 02,03 Check Date: Jan. 02,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 23,03  (172 days of delay)
As a returning student, this unpredictable delay of visa processing have raised lots of problems. The worst problem is that I registered for this semester, but it seems I may not be albe to go back before the end of this semester.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Pursuit my PH.D Degree
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Apply Date: May. 27,03 Check Date: May. 27,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 17,03  (21 days of delay)
It is unbelieveable to check me!! GOD!
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Jun. 20,03 Check Date: Jun. 20,03
Current Status:   Pending (81 days of delay)
The deadline for report to school is Aug 15th, and I am wondering if I can get visa by then.

University Of Georgia
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Return
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: Jun. 11,03 Check Date: Jun. 24,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 23,03  (29 days of delay)
Transferring to another university this August. Do not know whether it's gonna be affected. Or should I apply again with the new I-20?
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Pursuing Ph.D program
Major: Entomology
Apply Date: May. 21,03 Check Date: May. 21,03
Current Status:   pending (111 days of delay)
The fall semester starts from early Aug.
N/A F1  (Hong Kong) Ph.D. study
Major: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Apply Date: May. 23,03 Check Date: May. 23,03
Current Status:   pending (109 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: biochemical pharmacy, microbial and
Apply Date: Jun. 17,03 Check Date: Jun. 17,03
Current Status:    (84 days of delay)

University Of Hawaii
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visit family
Major: Bio, zoology
Apply Date: May. 30,03 Check Date: May. 30,03
Current Status:   waiting (102 days of delay)
I can't continue my research in the university. A new project starts at July 1st, but now i can't come back. I will lost my house rented before i came back to China. I can't pay a lot of bill (credit card, phone bill), I lost my credit.
N/A J1  (BEIJING) Exchange Scholar
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Mar. 28,03 Check Date: Mar. 28,03
Current Status:    (165 days of delay)

University Of Houston
N/A F1  (BEIJING) returning school
Major: Architecture
Apply Date: Jan. 08,03 Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 03,03  (146 days of delay)
unable to return to school and resume studying. my study might be delayed for a year due to major requirements.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Dec. 20,02 Check Date: Dec. 20,02
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 17,03  (118 days of delay)
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) study for ph.d
Major: geophysics
Apply Date: Jul. 02,03 Check Date: Jul. 02,03
Current Status:    (69 days of delay)

University Of Idaho
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 10,03 Check Date: Jan. 10,03
Current Status:   still pending (242 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 10,02 Check Date: Jul. 10,02
Current Status:   Approved on Feb. 19,03  (224 days of delay)

University Of Illinois
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Stduy for Ph.D.
Major: Bioinformatics
Apply Date: Jul. 03,03 Check Date: Jul. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 18,03  (46 days of delay)
N/A J1  (SHANGHAI) research
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Apply Date: Apr. 18,03 Check Date: Apr. 18,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 16,03  (28 days of delay)
My scholarship is valid only this year.
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Chemical Engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 27,03 Check Date: Jun. 27,03
Current Status:   still waiting (74 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) continue to study
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 08,03 Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 29,03  (141 days of delay)
I can't return to USA to continue to study in time.It have been nearly 4 months for me to wait the VISA and this semester will end soon!It waste so much time of mine,and I think it is wasting my life!!!Also I can't be with my girlfried now,and we miss each other very much!This Check process killed our happiness!
N/A J1  (GUANGZHOU) postdoc training
Major: bioinformatics
Apply Date: Jan. 29,03 Check Date: Jan. 29,03
Current Status:   pending (223 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit parents during winter vacation
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 30,03  (143 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: genetics, molecular
Apply Date: Nov. 20,02 Check Date: Nov. 20,02
Current Status:    (293 days of delay)

University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
N/A   (SHENYANG)
Major: Landscape Architecture
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jul. 25,03
Current Status:   waiting (46 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) postdoc
Major: biocatalysis
Apply Date: Apr. 07,03 Check Date: Apr. 07,03
Current Status:    (155 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visit home
Major: biochemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   pending (245 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) study
Major: civil engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 10,03 Check Date: Jul. 10,03
Current Status:   checked (61 days of delay)
The deadline for my entrance to UIUC is 08/27/03. What a urgent trouble!!!

University Of Iowa
N/A F1  (SHENYANG) Study for PH.D.
Major: Mathematics
Apply Date: Aug. 07,03 Check Date: Aug. 07,03
Current Status:    (33 days of delay)
I was refused.But I don't know why.I will come back to China definitely.

University Of Kansas
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) for PH.D degree
Major: Biosciences, Molecular
Apply Date: May. 21,03 Check Date: May. 21,03
Current Status:   pending (111 days of delay)
may be late for enrollment
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) This is my first entry to USA
Major: Chemistry, Organic
Apply Date: Nov. 04,02 Check Date: Nov. 04,02
Current Status:   pending (309 days of delay)
Waited in vain for more than 5 months till now
N/A   (SHANGHAI)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Aug. 08,02 Check Date: Aug. 09,02
Current Status:   still pending !!!! (396 days of delay)

University Of Kentucky
N/A J1  (BEIJING) Visit my parents
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Jun. 16,03 Check Date: Jun. 16,03
Current Status:   pending (85 days of delay)
An important scientific research has to be delayed.
N/A F1  (SHENYANG)
Major: ee
Apply Date: May. 30,03 Check Date: May. 30,03
Current Status:    (102 days of delay)
N/A J1  (BEIJING) colaboration reasearch
Major: physiology
Apply Date: Aug. 01,03 Check Date: Aug. 01,03
Current Status:   pending (39 days of delay)

University Of Louisville
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Computer Engineering
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Still waiting for clearance (246 days of delay)
I have waited more than 4 months and still waiting for "clearance" in Guangzhou Consulate.
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Go home
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: Dec. 26,02 Check Date: Dec. 26,02
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 15,03  (110 days of delay)
This is the second time I return China. The VO said the reason for check is high-tech.
N/A J1  (BEIJING)
Major: Genetics, Animal, and Reproduction
Apply Date: Feb. 28,03 Check Date: Feb. 28,03
Current Status:   Waiting. (193 days of delay)
It changes my whole life.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) my parents
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 31,02 Check Date: Dec. 31,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 16,03  (136 days of delay)
N/A J2  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Feb. 27,03 Check Date: Feb. 27,03
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 15,03  (47 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: genetics
Apply Date: Mar. 14,03 Check Date: Mar. 14,03
Current Status:    (179 days of delay)
N/A   (GUANGZHOU)
Major: 
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 25,03  (231 days of delay)

University Of Maryland
N/A F1  (BEIJING) study
Major: Architecture
Apply Date: Aug. 05,03 Check Date: Aug. 05,03
Current Status:   still waiting (35 days of delay)
I have missed my report date,Aug 26,2003.The univeristy agreed to provide an extension to my date to Sep 15,2003, I hope I can get my visa before that day.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit family
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 03,03 Check Date: Jan. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 30,03  (147 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jan. 09,03
Current Status:   Still being checked (243 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit family
Major: ENME
Apply Date:  Check Date: Aug. 13,03
Current Status:    (27 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit famly
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 30,03  (143 days of delay)
Absence for the spring semester; Assistantship discontinued.
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Apply Date:  Check Date: Feb. 19,03
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 04,03  (44 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Go back to china and visit my families and friends
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 30,02 Check Date: Dec. 30,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 29,03  (150 days of delay)
Delay my study for my Ph.D degree. Delay my research project that is supported by NSF.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) See Parents and Get Married
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 03,03 Check Date: Jan. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 03,03  (151 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (Frankfurt, Germany) Postdoc.
Major: Physics, (superconductivity)
Apply Date: Aug. 14,02 Check Date: Aug. 21,02
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 30,03  (252 days of delay)
I got a job from University of Maryland last Febuary (more than a year ago!!!) and got the H1-B approval notice from the INS on August 5, 2002. I summitted the application for an entry visa (H1-B) on August 14, 2002 to Frankfurt Consulate by mail and had an interview on August 21, 2002. I have been waiting for 7.5 months since then! I did fax/phone the embassy many times through the hotline (EURO 1.86/min), however, I have been ignored by them!! They do NOT answer me at all! I call the DOS many times as well, but I am always told that "your case is still pending". I am seriously thinking that I will never get the result because they are NOT doing anything. In the last 7 months, I have had GREAT difficulties to manage my work and life, such as to extend the working contract with the current boss, to extend the German visa, to find places to live every 2 months, to worry about the possibility of lossing the job in Maryland...... I am falling into despair...
N/A F1  (BEIJING) study for Ph.D degree
Major: cicil
Apply Date: Jul. 07,03 Check Date: Jul. 07,03
Current Status:   waiting (64 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) phd study
Major: electrical engineering
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jun. 06,03
Current Status:    (95 days of delay)

University Of Massachusetts Amherst
N/A F1  (BEIJING) study for MS and PHD
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 08,03 Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   Check, Waiting for result  (244 days of delay)
I missed the Spring Semester. Now, the Fall semester will come soon. I DO NOT know whether I can catch it! I have been waiting for nearly HALF of year!
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Vacation
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 10,03 Check Date: Feb. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 06,03  (123 days of delay)
I have found a new job in Beijing and settled down in China. I had plan to move back to China later 2003. This visa delay has speeded my moving back up. Fearing this would happen, I sold my car and ended my lease before I came back to China in Jan. It was proven to be a good move. My guess is that many other people were not as luck as I am.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) new student
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: May. 29,03 Check Date: May. 29,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 17,03  (49 days of delay)

University Of Massachusetts, Medical School
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) postdoctoral fellow
Major: Biochemical engineering
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jul. 21,03
Current Status:   Pending (50 days of delay)

University Of Miami
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Studying
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Dec. 30,02 Check Date: Dec. 30,02
Current Status:   pending (253 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) marriage
Major: physics, Applied marine
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 23,03  (167 days of delay)
I need pay the rental.Checking has wasted my time as others.

University Of Michigan
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study
Major: Biology
Apply Date: Jun. 02,03 Check Date: Jun. 02,03
Current Status:   Pending (99 days of delay)
I don't know how to deal with it
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) family reunion
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Apply Date: Aug. 26,03 Check Date: Sep. 03,03
Current Status:   waiting (6 days of delay)
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) Ph.D. study
Major: Chemistry, Medicinal
Apply Date: May. 27,03 Check Date: May. 27,03
Current Status:   no reply (105 days of delay)
N/A   (SHANGHAI)
Major: Civil Engineering
Apply Date: Feb. 10,03 Check Date: Feb. 18,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 24,03  (156 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Dec. 16,02 Check Date: Dec. 16,02
Current Status:   Approved on Mar. 11,03  (85 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) visit my family
Major: Nuclear Engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 24,02 Check Date: Dec. 24,02
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 01,03  (98 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study for Ph.D.
Major: Physics
Apply Date: May. 27,03 Check Date: May. 27,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 11,03  (76 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visiting family
Major: biochem
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jan. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 12,03  (221 days of delay)
I have reported my case before, I just come here to report that this one has been proved. Thanks for all your efforts.
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visiting family
Major: biochemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 03,03 Check Date: Jan. 03,03
Current Status:   pending (249 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visiting parents
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: Dec. 17,02 Check Date: Dec. 17,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 29,03  (163 days of delay)
I missed one semester away,which also greatly affect my acdemic research work!I missed the registration day for a very important acdemic conference.

University Of Minnesota
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Bio, Microbial Engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 26,02 Check Date: Dec. 26,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 13,03  (138 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) work as a postdoctoral associate
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Apply Date: Feb. 19,03 Check Date: Feb. 19,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 09,03  (110 days of delay)
1 can not begin my research work on time 2 my offer may be cannceled
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Visit Mum when she had cancer surgery
Major: Food Science
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 30,03  (143 days of delay)
Missed the Spring semester (my last semester), I need towait to next Spring semester as my required courses are only offered in Spring.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit my parents
Major: Immunology and Cancer Biol, Microbiology
Apply Date: Dec. 30,02 Check Date: Jan. 13,03
Current Status:   pending (239 days of delay)
my parents and I are very nervous and depressed about my visa issue...

University Of Missouri-Columbia
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Jul. 14,03 Check Date: Jul. 14,03
Current Status:   pending (57 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) to pursue a Ph.D degree
Major: structure engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 12,03 Check Date: Jun. 12,03
Current Status:   pending (89 days of delay)
I DO NO KNOW IF I SHOULD LEAVE MY CURENT POSITION.

University Of Nebraska
N/A H1B  (BERLIN) visa problem
Major: Biology
Apply Date: Mar. 11,03 Check Date: Mar. 11,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 20,03  (70 days of delay)
I was even not allowed to inquire the embassy, Berlin how long the security check will take. They said they didn't know either. I am not sure if I should keep waiting and just forget it.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: management
Apply Date: May. 27,03 Check Date: May. 27,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 27,03  (61 days of delay)

University Of Nebraska Medical Center
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Apply Date: May. 23,03 Check Date: May. 23,03
Current Status:    (109 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) get married
Major: pharmacology, MSIA
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   pending (246 days of delay)

University Of New Orleans
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) to visit my family
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Mar. 10,03 Check Date: Mar. 10,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 05,03  (87 days of delay)
N/A   (SHANGHAI)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: May. 21,03 Check Date: May. 21,03
Current Status:   waiting (111 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: Mar. 10,03 Check Date: Mar. 10,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 12,03  (94 days of delay)

University Of North Carolina
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 15,03  (99 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Ph.D study
Major: City and Regional Planning
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jul. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 04,03  (32 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Phd
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: Jun. 25,03 Check Date: Jun. 25,03
Current Status:   waiting phone call (76 days of delay)
School new term starts at 8/21, I must go back to Chengdu after 7/20, it will be bad for my later schedule, it might even make me miss the new term.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit my family
Major: Immunology
Apply Date: Dec. 13,02 Check Date: Dec. 16,02
Current Status:   still pending (267 days of delay)
I think my story will be the same as others. This security check drove us mad and pushed us into a serious big troubles for life and research. We lost money, time and research project. Especially, this long-lasting check will ruin our lives.

University Of Notre Dame
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Visit parents
Major: Chemical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 27,02 Check Date: Feb. 12,02
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 03,03  (415 days of delay)
F1 Reentry Visa Application: Monday, Jan. 27, 2003 Through CITIC Industrial Bank, Hefei, P R China, Notice to interview at Shanghai Consulate (2/10/2003) Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2003 Interview in Shanghai Consulate, Notice to be background checked. (Reason: research area is relative to nano material -- aluminum nano dots.) Thursday, March 13, 2003 Called Shanghai Consulate, was told to send fax to consulate from advisor Friday, March 14, 2003 Called Department of States, was told that the case was in process Sent fax to Shanghai consulate (03/21), didn't get any reply. Still waiting. (Did plan to come back on Feb. 20, 2003, airline ticket was expired.)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Ph.D
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 06,03 Check Date: Jun. 06,03
Current Status:   Waiting (95 days of delay)
New F-1 Checked
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Attend a research conference (one week)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Mar. 04,03 Check Date: Mar. 04,03
Current Status:    (189 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) to do postdoc research
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: Feb. 21,03 Check Date: Feb. 21,03
Current Status:   still pending (200 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) to see parents
Major: mechanical engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 15,03 Check Date: Jun. 18,03
Current Status:   pending (83 days of delay)
I can't continue to do my research work in summer. My flight was cancelled. I probably can't attent the fall semester. I don't major in any sensitive area and I'm a peace-loving person but I don't have security in going back and forth between the US and my homecountry.

University Of Oklahoma
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) study
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Dec. 24,02 Check Date: Dec. 24,02
Current Status:   waiting (259 days of delay)
I do nothing but waiting last several months. I began to take some action now and meanwhile concentrate on my recent work, and enjoy the life. Always comfort myself, if I can't pursue this dream, maybe there is another one better for me. 得之我幸不得之我命

University Of Oregon
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) visit family
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Dec. 20,02 Check Date: Jan. 02,03
Current Status:   still pending (250 days of delay)

University Of Pennsylvania
N/A F1  (N/A)
Major: Bioengineering
Apply Date: Jan. 29,03 Check Date: Jan. 29,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 05,03  (127 days of delay)
My advisor needs me to go back to his lab and continue our research urgently. We're applying for a proposal and the deadline is coming. Please help us checkees get visa ASAP! We are losing money, wasting our time and making our family very worried.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) postdoctor
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Apr. 10,03 Check Date: Apr. 10,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 27,03  (139 days of delay)
N/A F1  (the US embassy) study for Ph.D.
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: May. 28,03 Check Date: May. 28,03
Current Status:    (104 days of delay)

University Of Pittsburgh
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jun. 28,02 Check Date: Jun. 28,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jan. 06,03  (192 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Visit Parents
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 29,03  (234 days of delay)

University Of Rhode Island
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) Pursue PHD
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Apply Date: Jun. 12,03 Check Date: Jun. 12,03
Current Status:   Pending (89 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Study
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Jul. 25,03 Check Date: Jul. 25,03
Current Status:   Pending (46 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visit
Major: physics
Apply Date: Jan. 14,03 Check Date: Jan. 14,03
Current Status:   F-1 (238 days of delay)
I have studied five years in USA,this will be my last year of my PH.D. I already wait six months, if I still could not get my visa before sept. 2003, I have to delay my study another semester.

University Of Rochester
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Biology
Apply Date: May. 21,03 Check Date: May. 23,03
Current Status:   No result (109 days of delay)
I will lost the study opportunity if I can not catch the program start day.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) My grandfather passed away
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Dec. 24,02 Check Date: Dec. 24,02
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 11,03  (108 days of delay)
My husband and I are both PhD students of UR and we were both checked when we returned home last year. And we are still waiting for our visas. Besides all the inconveniences that the check brought to our studies and lives, the research plans of our groups were discomfited. I feel so sorry for that.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit my family
Major: Genetics
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 11,03  (155 days of delay)
it is whole disaster
N/A F1  (BEIJING) to see our families members
Major: chemistry
Apply Date: Dec. 24,02 Check Date: Dec. 24,02
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 11,03  (108 days of delay)

University Of Science And Technology Of China
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Mathematics
Apply Date: May. 28,03 Check Date: May. 28,03
Current Status:   Checked (104 days of delay)

University Of South Alabama
N/A J2  (BEIJING) reunion
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Apr. 22,03 Check Date: Apr. 22,03
Current Status:   Unknown (140 days of delay)
Why is it so long for J2? No big issue, just feel alone.

University Of South Carolina
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study
Major: Chemistry, Applied
Apply Date: May. 22,03 Check Date: May. 22,03
Current Status:   Pending (110 days of delay)
I want to get my Visa before Aug. this year in that the I20 said that I should arrive at University of South Carolina no later than Aug.15,2003.
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Visiting my family
Major: Condensed Matter Physics
Apply Date: Dec. 17,02 Check Date: Dec. 27,02
Current Status:   Pending (256 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) reunion ?
Major: chemical engineering
Apply Date: Aug. 19,03 Check Date: Aug. 19,03
Current Status:   hold (21 days of delay)
1. Cannot return as planned. 2. Risk of losing academic oppotunities, e.g., paper publishing, conference. 3. Flight ticket, appartment renting, etc.

University Of South Carolina At Columbia
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Study
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 11,03 Check Date: Jun. 11,03
Current Status:   Checking (90 days of delay)

University Of South Florida
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Went to Japan for a conference
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: Jan. 28,03 Check Date: Jan. 28,03
Current Status:   pending (224 days of delay)
The affects are apparent.

University Of Southern California
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) To get married
Major: EE-Systems
Apply Date: Dec. 31,02 Check Date: Jan. 02,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 16,03  (134 days of delay)
The delay has made very bad affects on me. 1. several thousand dollars have been payed for my rented room and my car in USA; 2. one of mine semester is ruined; big loss in research both for me and for my boss; 3. my parents and I all worry very much for my future and we fear that when the check process is done it will be too late to continue my Ph.D study in USC, which has been my dream and I have worked very hard in the last several years for it, and it has been realize it, but now my dream may be broken. 4.the most bad thing is I have no channel to even know how my checking process is going and I can't do any plan for the future and just wait endlessly and hopelessly. Several calls have been made and even inquiry letters have been faxed both to the Shanghai Embassy and State Department but no response.
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Dec. 17,02 Check Date: Dec. 27,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 15,03  (200 days of delay)
Our group are waiting for me to continue my research. I can't do anything here.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Dec. 30,02 Check Date: Dec. 30,02
Current Status:    (253 days of delay)
N/A   (BEIJING)
Major: N/A
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jan. 24,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 08,03  (104 days of delay)

University Of Tennessee
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Postdoctoral research
Major: Biochemistry, Computational
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jun. 16,03
Current Status:   Checked (85 days of delay)
I graduated in Jan. 2003, and the I797 form came to me on Jun. 6, yet the visa officer told me they would check my background on Jun. 16. All that I can do is still waiting.
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Apply Date: Feb. 10,03 Check Date: Feb. 10,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 27,03  (167 days of delay)
Many many thanks for all the great efforts CUCSSA put forth. I waited for nearly 6 months. It finally went through. Be patient and confident. All the best wishes!
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI) Vacation
Major: Biomedical engineering
Apply Date: Feb. 10,03 Check Date: Feb. 10,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 27,03  (167 days of delay)
This has been causing a lot of inconvenience in both work and my family life. It seems there is no way to check the status of this process. If you have any suggestions, please let me know or post it on this website.
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Civil Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 07,03
Current Status:   still pending (245 days of delay)
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) Pursue Ph.D.
Major: Civil Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 22,03 Check Date: Jul. 22,03
Current Status:   Pending (49 days of delay)
A collaborative research was seriously delayed due to the unknown waiting period of my visa.
N/A   (SHANGHAI)
Major: Materials Science
Apply Date: May. 14,03 Check Date: May. 14,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 06,03  (23 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study for Ph.D
Major: Nuclear Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 21,03 Check Date: Jul. 21,03
Current Status:   SAO Check (50 days of delay)
Fall semester begins on Aug 11th. It seems impossible for me catch it. Maybe i have to defer to spring 2004
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: 
Apply Date: Jul. 08,02 Check Date: Jul. 08,02
Current Status:   Waiting (428 days of delay)

University Of Texas
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visiting family
Major: Biomedical Science (Molecular Pathology)
Apply Date: Dec. 17,02 Check Date: Dec. 24,02
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 19,03  (238 days of delay)
Messy , inefficient security check system. Some Guangzhou checkee were told by the Consulate, because of some mistake of the paper work, they had to send our files again after we waited for 2 months... some were told by DC they can't find their files even consulate told you they had sent them to DC.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Return home
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 08,03 Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 29,03  (141 days of delay)
1. Unable to continue to register car's license 2. Unable to extend car insurance 3. Unable to get the mails 4. Unable to pay federal and state tax in time 5. Loss of chance to return using same plane ticket
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Material Science and Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 08,02 Check Date: Jul. 08,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 25,03  (382 days of delay)
N/A   (BEIJING)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Dec. 18,02 Check Date: Dec. 18,02
Current Status:    (265 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Feb. 24,03 Check Date: Feb. 24,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 06,03  (102 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Dec. 23,02 Check Date: Dec. 30,02
Current Status:   Pending (253 days of delay)
N/A J1  (BEIJING) postdoc
Major: biology,immunology
Apply Date: Feb. 26,03 Check Date: Apr. 21,03
Current Status:   pending (141 days of delay)

University Of Texas At Austin
N/A F1  (Hong Kong) Pursue the PhD degree
Major: Biology, Cell & Molecular
Apply Date: May. 09,03 Check Date: May. 09,03
Current Status:   Wait (123 days of delay)
N/A F1  (Hong Kong) Pursue the PhD degree
Major: Biology, Cell & Molecular
Apply Date: May. 09,03 Check Date: May. 09,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 03,03  (25 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study
Major: Chemical Engineering
Apply Date: May. 15,03 Check Date: May. 15,03
Current Status:   waiting (117 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI) Continue postdoc research
Major: Chemistry/Biology
Apply Date: Feb. 20,03 Check Date: Feb. 24,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 12,03  (108 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Pursue PhD
Major: Electrical Engineering - Optics
Apply Date: May. 14,03 Check Date: May. 14,03
Current Status:   Pending (118 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Pursue PhD
Major: Electrical Engineering - Optics
Apply Date: May. 14,03 Check Date: May. 14,03
Current Status:   waiting (118 days of delay)
N/A   (GUANGZHOU)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Jun. 03,03 Check Date: Jun. 03,03
Current Status:    (98 days of delay)
it is boring to do nothing but waiting...
N/A F1  (BEIJING) For Ph.D. study
Major: Neuroscience
Apply Date: Jun. 13,03 Check Date: Jun. 13,03
Current Status:   Pending (88 days of delay)
Tommorrow should have been the day for the meeting between my supervisor and I. But now, I have to stay here waiting. Because of this delayed visa issuance, my supervisor is badly short of research assistant, and his lab arrangement is faced with many tough problems. This creates more of a problem for my advisor than me. I am earnestly expecting you to expedite the checking process and bring us together earlier.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) study
Major: Physics, Condensed Matter
Apply Date: May. 28,03 Check Date: May. 28,03
Current Status:   pending (104 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) pursuing DOCTORATE
Major: mechanical engineering
Apply Date: Apr. 18,03 Check Date: Apr. 18,03
Current Status:   waiting for the call (144 days of delay)
I was supposed to enter summer semester 2003,there are only 22 days left for enrollment deadline, how could I catch it if the check normally take several month?

University Of Texas Health Science Center At San A
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Postdoc
Major: Medicine, Molecular
Apply Date: Feb. 11,03 Check Date: Feb. 11,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 14,03  (92 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Ph.D
Major: Medicine, Molecular
Apply Date: Jun. 04,03 Check Date: Jun. 04,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 15,03  (41 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visiting family
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Dec. 17,02 Check Date: Dec. 17,02
Current Status:   still pending (266 days of delay)
N/A F1  (Vancouver) landing canada for after visiting parents in China
Major: cell biology
Apply Date: Jul. 14,03 Check Date: Jul. 14,03
Current Status:   waiting (57 days of delay)
I have to miss classes and cannot resume my project. My 12-year-old son cannot go to school since the fall semester has started in Houston, USA. Wish God bless us.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: medicine
Apply Date: Apr. 01,03 Check Date: Apr. 01,03
Current Status:   pending (161 days of delay)

University Of Texas M.D Anderson Cancer Center
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) study for Ph.D.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Apply Date: May. 21,03 Check Date: May. 21,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 25,03  (96 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) study for Ph.D.
Major: biomedical science
Apply Date:  Check Date: May. 21,03
Current Status:   pending (111 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI) working as a postdoctor
Major: genetics, molecular
Apply Date: Feb. 12,03 Check Date: Feb. 12,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 10,03  (87 days of delay)
serious affect my mentor's research work. and i couldn't reunion with my husband.
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: 
Apply Date: Dec. 17,02 Check Date: Dec. 24,02
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 19,03  (238 days of delay)

University Of Texas Medical Branch
N/A J1  (GUANGZHOU) Postdoctor research project
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Jul. 17,03 Check Date: Jul. 17,03
Current Status:   Pending (54 days of delay)
Research project has to be delayed due to this.I just want a result, no matter what it is.
N/A J1  (GUANGZHOU) postdoctoral
Major: Genetics
Apply Date:  Check Date: Dec. 07,02
Current Status:   Approved on Sep. 02,03  (275 days of delay)

University Of Tolede
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) PhD
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: May. 20,03 Check Date: May. 20,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 18,03  (59 days of delay)
sorry to respond to ur message so late. I cannot access to ur website after July 20 in China. I think I have report the wrong name of the university, it is Uni. of Toledo, not tolede. sorry for my mistake. I also know a guy get checked in Shanghai, 06/02/02 apply date, and get visa 07/11/03, name jian zhou. If u have some question, pls do not hesitate to ask. I will try my best to answer. Finally, thanks u very much for all u have done.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Phd
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: May. 20,03 Check Date: May. 20,03
Current Status:   pending (112 days of delay)
complex feeling. No word to say

University Of Toledo
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Study for M.S. degree
Major: Biology
Apply Date: Jun. 03,03 Check Date: Jun. 03,03
Current Status:   Anxiously waiting. (98 days of delay)
Thanks to all.

University Of Utah
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jun. 12,03
Current Status:    (89 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Visit parents and grandparents
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Dec. 24,02 Check Date: Dec. 24,02
Current Status:   Approved on Feb. 10,03  (48 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Visit parents and grandparents
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Dec. 24,02 Check Date: Dec. 24,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jan. 20,03  (27 days of delay)
N/A F1  (Hong Kong)
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Jul. 18,03 Check Date: Jul. 18,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 29,03  (42 days of delay)
It is such a bad thing to bare the uncertainty. My everyday life is effected deeply by it.
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) serious car accident of parents
Major: Physics
Apply Date: Sep. 27,02 Check Date: Sep. 27,02
Current Status:   Approved on May. 19,03  (234 days of delay)
Xiaomei's parents got serious car accident and her mother died immediately. Xiaomei and her husband Jian and their daughter Ailin all went back China in early September 2002 soon after they got this message. About 10 days later, Xiaomei's father also passed away.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Study
Major: biology, molecular
Apply Date: Jun. 12,03 Check Date: Jun. 12,03
Current Status:   be Checked (89 days of delay)
Affect my plan of plane and study
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) first time going abroad
Major: physics
Apply Date: Dec. 26,02 Check Date: Dec. 26,02
Current Status:   Approved on Feb. 11,03  (47 days of delay)
My boss delayed his funding application because of our delayed coorperation in research. as a result probably I could not work on in 2004 because of short of funding.
N/A   (BEIJING)
Major: 
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jun. 12,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 24,03  (42 days of delay)

University Of Virginia
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) study for PhD degree
Major: Bio, Microbiology
Apply Date: May. 06,03 Check Date: May. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 06,03  (31 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit parents
Major: BioChemistry
Apply Date: Dec. 31,02 Check Date: Dec. 31,02
Current Status:   Approved on Apr. 23,03  (113 days of delay)
I am adding this information for my husband. We went back China together, while the visa officer asked him to stay in China in front of me, but he let me come back. During the 4 months seperating, I cried every single night of it. He was a very very deligent student, and he was just about o publish his first paper, however, this unexpected delay severely damaged his project. A lot of work has to be started from scratch. Nothing could compensate for our time, while our happy reunion with parents turned out to brought great sorrow and worry to our parents and folks.
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) marriage
Major: Biophysics
Apply Date: Jun. 06,03 Check Date: Jun. 06,03
Current Status:   waiting (95 days of delay)
the situation in Guangzhou was very bad. My wife was denied twice and I was check on 06/06 as we tried to apply the visa together. Nearly all the F1s were checked in Guangzhou this year. Two of my old classmate whoes major is chemistry were checked on 06/05 and 06/06.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) study
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: May. 28,03 Check Date: May. 28,03
Current Status:   pending (104 days of delay)
I-20 deadline missed. Perhaps be deferred to the Spring semester.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) Get married and visit my parents
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: Dec. 24,02 Check Date: Dec. 27,02
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 09,03  (194 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) PhD
Major: Immunology, Microbiology and
Apply Date: Jun. 06,03 Check Date: Jun. 06,03
Current Status:   pending (95 days of delay)
I hope to get my visa as soon as possible to catch up with my check-in meeting on Aug 11.
N/A   (GUANGZHOU)
Major: N/A
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jun. 16,03
Current Status:   pending (85 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit my family
Major: Pharmacology
Apply Date: Dec. 27,02 Check Date: Jan. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 03,03  (151 days of delay)
I am already a 5th year graduate student and I had planned to graduate this May, but the visa check procedure totally messed up my study plan--I have to postpone my graduation, depending on when I can get my visa.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) background
Major: biomedical engineering
Apply Date: Jun. 27,03 Check Date: Jun. 27,03
Current Status:   pending (74 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) do as a research associate
Major: pathology
Apply Date: Nov. 19,02 Check Date: Nov. 19,02
Current Status:   pending (294 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHENYANG) ph.d student
Major: system engineering
Apply Date: Aug. 06,03 Check Date: Aug. 06,03
Current Status:   pending (34 days of delay)

University Of Washington
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Visit My Parents
Major: Chemical Engineering
Apply Date: Apr. 21,03 Check Date: Apr. 21,03
Current Status:    (141 days of delay)
N/A F1  (CHENGDU) Study
Major: EE
Apply Date: Aug. 18,03 Check Date: Aug. 18,03
Current Status:    (22 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: Medical Image
Apply Date: Jul. 29,03 Check Date: Jul. 29,03
Current Status:    (42 days of delay)

University Of Wisconsin-Madison
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) postdoctoral
Major: Bio, medical microbiology
Apply Date: Feb. 14,03 Check Date: Jan. 15,03
Current Status:   under review (237 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit family
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Mar. 13,03 Check Date: Mar. 13,03
Current Status:   unknown (180 days of delay)
I have to drop the courses I was taking and my research projects was also affected very much.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Postdoctor Research
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: Mar. 03,03 Check Date: Mar. 03,03
Current Status:   pending (190 days of delay)
I hope my visa application can be approved soon. The waiting is so long. I also hope we can overcome the SARS soon.
N/A F1  (TORONTO)
Major: Electrical Engineering, BME
Apply Date: May. 08,03 Check Date: May. 08,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 16,03  (39 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) visit parents
Major: Genetics
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 29,03  (204 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Visisting parents
Major: Materials Science
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   still waiting (246 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Family visit
Major: Physiology
Apply Date: Jan. 03,03 Check Date: Jan. 03,03
Current Status:   still pending  (249 days of delay)
Numerous fax, phone calls, my advisor's and department chair's letter, the help elicited from Wisconsin Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin. All ended with a response of "indefinite waiting". I contacted the State department 202-663-1231,now they can not even locate my files due to some mismatching errors. Now I am stuck home with no ID (my passport is held)and my work been on hold and every friends of mine think it is insane. Anyway, it is the anger for total disrespect and mistreatment.
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: physics
Apply Date: Jan. 06,03 Check Date: Jan. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 29,03  (204 days of delay)

University Of Wyoming
N/A J1  (BEIJING) postdoctoral research
Major: chemistry, polymer science
Apply Date: Feb. 27,03 Check Date: Feb. 27,03
Current Status:   waiting (194 days of delay)

Us Company
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) family visit
Major: Chemical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 23,03 Check Date: Jan. 23,03
Current Status:   waiting in China (229 days of delay)
On top of everything else I had to separate with my young baby for 6weeks before I had her brought back to me from US.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Get married
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: May. 27,03 Check Date: May. 27,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 10,03  (14 days of delay)
I came back during Memorial Day weekend and planned to went back to the States in a few days. Now I can not go anywhere because my passport and INS documents is held by US Embassy. I read a news saying that DOS promise to finish background check in 30 days, hope it is true. Crossing my fingers...
N/A H1B  (TORONTO) H1B stamp
Major: Laser
Apply Date: Jan. 22,03 Check Date: Jan. 23,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 11,03  (139 days of delay)
N/A   (GUANGZHOU)
Major: 
Apply Date:  Check Date: Dec. 31,02
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 20,03  (232 days of delay)
My wife has waited for almost eight months before she got approved. She is in guangzhou to pick up her immigration visa now.

Utah State University
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI) PhD study
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: May. 29,03 Check Date: May. 29,03
Current Status:   Waiting and begging (103 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date:  Check Date: Jul. 08,03
Current Status:   pending (63 days of delay)

Utstarcom
N/A F2  (BEIJING) reunite with husband
Major: Biology, Marine
Apply Date: Apr. 08,03 Check Date: Apr. 08,03
Current Status:   pending (154 days of delay)
I've been to usa as a J1 in 2001, and stayed in Rutgers University about 6 months. Some friends said this is the reason they checked me. But LG called dos, and officer said it's because of my biology related major. I don't know why they need so long time to check me who is such a simple person.
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI) Business
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 13,03 Check Date: Jan. 13,03
Current Status:   pending (239 days of delay)

Vanderbilt University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) Visit Home
Major: BioMedical Sci, IGP.
Apply Date: Dec. 23,02 Check Date: Jan. 10,03
Current Status:   Pending (242 days of delay)
Lost my financial support and then my position in Vanderbilt. I have to apply another school.
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Biomedical Sciences-IGP
Apply Date: Jun. 26,03 Check Date: Jun. 26,03
Current Status:    (75 days of delay)
I have missed the register deadline and will lose the chance to study at Vanderbilt University.
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI) postdoc training
Major: Cancer Epidemiology
Apply Date: Jun. 23,03 Check Date: Jun. 23,03
Current Status:   pending (78 days of delay)
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) visit family
Major: Chemical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 17,03 Check Date: Jan. 17,03
Current Status:   pending (235 days of delay)
My research is greatly affected and damaged. I was about to graduate by the end of 2003 now it has to be postponed for at least one semester. My research assistantship was stopped temporarily because I was not able to return in time. And my student status and registration for FALL 2003 semester will be affected if I can't return in April 2003.
N/A F1  (BEIJING) pursue my PHD
Major: Civil Engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 02,03 Check Date: Jul. 02,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 29,03  (58 days of delay)
I will miss the registration deadline and lose the chance
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) study for PhD
Major: IGP,Biomedical Sciences
Apply Date: Jun. 19,03 Check Date: Jun. 19,03
Current Status:    (82 days of delay)
Today is the registration day of my school. I miss it!!! If it take 10 more days, I will miss the deadline of entering US and loss the chance of my PhD education.
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: biology, IGP-Cell and Developmental
Apply Date: Jan. 03,03 Check Date: Jan. 03,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 12,03  (129 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) study
Major: civil engineering
Apply Date: Jul. 02,03 Check Date: Jul. 02,03
Current Status:    (69 days of delay)
I will miss the registration deadline and lose the chance to further my study.
N/A H1B  (SHANGHAI) postdoc
Major: medicine
Apply Date: Jun. 23,03 Check Date: Jun. 23,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 21,03  (59 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (Singapore) postdoc
Major: medicine, genetic
Apply Date: Mar. 27,03 Check Date: Mar. 27,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 13,03  (47 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (Singapore)
Major: medicine, genetic
Apply Date: Mar. 27,03 Check Date: Mar. 27,03
Current Status:   pending (166 days of delay)

Virginia Commonwealth University
N/A H1B  (CHENGDU) be postdoctor
Major: Bio, botany
Apply Date: Mar. 17,02 Check Date: Mar. 17,02
Current Status:    (541 days of delay)

Virginia Tech
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Architecture
Apply Date: May. 27,03 Check Date: May. 27,03
Current Status:   pending (105 days of delay)
N/A H1B  (BERN SWITZERLAND) Business
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: May. 21,02 Check Date: May. 21,02
Current Status:    (476 days of delay)
Do not know how long it gonna take
N/A H1B  (BERN SWITZERLAND) Business
Major: Engineering
Apply Date: May. 21,02 Check Date: May. 21,02
Current Status:   Pending (476 days of delay)
Can not join my wife
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) Master's Degree
Major: Industrial Engineering
Apply Date: May. 21,03 Check Date: May. 21,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 26,03  (97 days of delay)
Delay to spring 04 or Fall 04
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) post-doc
Major: biology, plant
Apply Date: Aug. 15,02 Check Date: May. 13,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 02,03  (50 days of delay)
N/A J1  (SHANGHAI) postdoctoral research
Major: mechanics, engineering
Apply Date: Feb. 26,03 Check Date: Feb. 26,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 06,03  (100 days of delay)

Washington State University
N/A F1  (BEIJING) to pursue graduate study for Ph.D.
Major: Civil Engineering
Apply Date: Feb. 27,03 Check Date: Feb. 27,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jun. 06,03  (99 days of delay)
I will begin the study in May. So it will disturb my future plan if I can't get visa timely for the May registration.

Washington Univ. In St. Louis
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Biochemistry
Apply Date: Jan. 07,03 Check Date: Jan. 08,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 10,03  (183 days of delay)
half a year waiting already, no news so far
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Apply Date: Jan. 30,03 Check Date: Jan. 30,03
Current Status:   pending (222 days of delay)
I have waited for 5 months.I almost lost my patience.And more important,I don't like my fate is controlled by others.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING)
Major: Biophysics
Apply Date: Feb. 27,03 Check Date: May. 07,03
Current Status:   Pending (125 days of delay)
N/A F1  (SHANGHAI)
Major: Chemistry
Apply Date: May. 28,03 Check Date: May. 28,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 10,03  (43 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) pursue the master degree
Major: architecture
Apply Date: Jun. 17,03 Check Date: Jun. 17,03
Current Status:   pending (84 days of delay)
my orientation program will begin on 08/18/2003.On 06/17/2003 Visa officer told me that my major (Architecture) is a sensitive major and had to send my materials to Washington to check. Since then, seven weeks have passed. I am worried it will delay my registration.
N/A F1  (Vancouver)
Major: computer science
Apply Date: Aug. 01,03 Check Date: Aug. 01,03
Current Status:   waiting (39 days of delay)

Yale University
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) Business Trip
Major: Architecture
Apply Date: Jan. 28,03 Check Date: Jan. 28,03
Current Status:   pending (224 days of delay)
I heard from a visa specialist from state department: background check has been a regular procedure for visa applicants. A "must" procudure is fine, but a timeless delay (nobody knows when your case will be processed, as what we have seen, in fact, the processing has been rather ramdom) is very unfair for us tax payers.
N/A   (N/A)
Major: Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics and
Apply Date: Sep. 06,02 Check Date: Sep. 06,02
Current Status:   pending (368 days of delay)
N/A   (GUANGZHOU)
Major: Biomedical
Apply Date: Oct. 16,02 Check Date: Oct. 16,02
Current Status:    (328 days of delay)
still pending
N/A F1  (BEIJING) study
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: Jun. 06,03 Check Date: Jun. 06,03
Current Status:   Approved on Jul. 07,03  (31 days of delay)
All my plans have been disrupted and I have to make my new plans. What's worse, I will have to defer my study at Yale if I cannot get my F-1 visa before August.
N/A F1  (BEIJING)
Major: Computer Science
Apply Date: Jul. 12,02 Check Date: Jul. 12,02
Current Status:   pending (424 days of delay)
N/A   (N/A)
Major: Computer Sicence
Apply Date: Dec. 30,02 Check Date: Dec. 30,02
Current Status:    (253 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BERN SWITZERLAND)
Major: ECONOMICS
Apply Date: Feb. 03,03 Check Date: Feb. 03,03
Current Status:    (218 days of delay)
N/A F1  (BEIJING) vacation
Major: Electrical Engineering
Apply Date: Jan. 31,03 Check Date: Jan. 31,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 14,03  (103 days of delay)
holiday ruined, parents' health affected
N/A   (N/A)
Major: Epidemiology and Public Health
Apply Date: Oct. 15,02 Check Date: Oct. 15,02
Current Status:   pending (329 days of delay)
N/A   (BEIJING)
Major: Genetics
Apply Date: Sep. 20,02 Check Date: Sep. 20,02
Current Status:    (354 days of delay)
I went to a conference in UK in september 2002. I reapplyed the Visa from London but was told that everyone has to go through the security check and nobody knows how long will it take. So I decided to go back home in china to apply and wait. I went back in September 20th, 2002 and reapplyed there in Beijing. But I was delayed for 2 months. The visa was issued in November 22nd, 2002. And I was back here in December
N/A J1  (N/A)
Major: MCDB
Apply Date: Feb. 12,03 Check Date: Feb. 12,03
Current Status:   pending (209 days of delay)
N/A   (GUANGZHOU)
Major: N/A
Apply Date: Oct. 16,02 Check Date: Oct. 16,02
Current Status:   still pending (328 days of delay)
I do not understand why it took so much time for checking? We are just students. Now what I can do is only waiting and doing some temporary work.
N/A H1B  (BEIJING) postdoc
Major: immunology
Apply Date: Jan. 13,03 Check Date: Jan. 31,03
Current Status:   Approved on May. 29,03  (118 days of delay)
Our familly applied H1 and H4 at the same time.I and my son got the visa on 05/29.But,they do not find the materials of my husband.It is really annoying that we still need to wait for his approval because we want to travel together.
N/A J1  (BEIJING) EXCHANGE STUDENT
Major: life sciences
Apply Date: Apr. 08,03 Check Date: Apr. 08,03
Current Status:   Ph.D student (154 days of delay)
Last year(2002), I went to Yale University and did research work there. In January of 2003, I came back to China. In order to go on with my research in Yale University, I applied to go to Yale University again and my adviser in Yale had permitted. But now, my visa was checked and I have waited more than one month. Please help me. Thank you!
N/A F1  (GUANGZHOU) to visit my parents
Major: physics
Apply Date: Jan. 14,03 Check Date: Jan. 14,03
Current Status:   Pending (238 days of delay)
N/A J1  (BEIJING)
Major: 
Apply Date: Feb. 27,03 Check Date: Feb. 27,03
Current Status:   Approved on Aug. 31,03  (185 days of delay)