How may I contact the FBI agency to inquire as to the status of a name
clearance proccess for my fiancee from China that has been on a "hold"
situatiion for name clearance for K1 visa  the past 7 months?  Either
mailing address, email address, or fax address.

---

Request for Question Clarification by techtor-ga on 07 Jul 2003 09:55 PDT

Hello Donho,
I noticed you posted three separate questions on the same topic. I
think it will help you to cancel two of them and just stick with one
question, since you ask the same thing in it as the other questions.
The reason is so you could avoid paying much more than you intend. May
I suggest you leave the higher-priced question which would be more
enticing to researchers. :)

---

Clarification of Question by donho-ga on 08 Jul 2003 07:48 PDT

please cancel the other two questions, and complete the question that
you have now, thank you.

---

Clarification of Question by donho-ga on 08 Jul 2003 07:49 PDT

yes, please do leave the higher priced question to be answered

---

Request for Question Clarification by techtor-ga on 08 Jul 2003 08:19 PDT

Hello again Donho,
Actually, we researchers could not close the other two questions for
you. If they have not been answered, it is actually you who can close
them. Just log in to your account here in Google Answers, go to the
menu showing your questions, go to each question and just click on the
"Cancel question" or "Close question" button (I admit not knowing
which one since I haven't asked a question here myself). Thank you for
your consideration on the price, but if you change your mind, you can
make the decision yourself on which question to leave open.

What I found were the contact numbers for the FBI field offices in the
US and contact numbers of FBI attaches in the embassies around the
world. For China, all that is available is the Hong Kong office
number. Will this be enough for you? I'm afraid if you were looking
for a specific department or inside number, it's not available on the
Internet. Thank you.

Dear Donho,

I hope my answer is going to help. I’m living and working in Shanghai
myself and have quite some friends who face the same problem. In most
cases they did find a solution. The information I give you is based on
these experiences and on a call I just made to the US consulate here,
where a friend mostly confirmed my findings.

First: although a nuisance, a waiting time of seven months to allow
your fiancée to come to the US is not uncommon. Getting clearance
might vary between three months till over one year, without knowing
what exactly is going on.

The only place to get information is at the US Consulate in Guangzhou,
where all the Chinese partners have to apply for a visa. When your
fiancée still knows the name of the handling visa officer that might
be helpful to find the right person. You can call this officer and ask
for information, although your fiancée is unlikely to get through.
Chinese citizens are most likely ignored already by the phone
operator, while US citizens do get a rather polite reply.
None of the other diplomatic posts, including Hong Kong will be able
to help you.

Their phone number is (86-20) 8399-2000, their fax number is (8620)
8121-8341. Their mailing address:

United States Consulate Guangzhou
1 Shamian South Street
Guangzhou, 510133 PRC

It is highly unlikely the FBI will answer your questions directly.
What might help is if your Congressman is writing to the State
Department on your behalf. Some of my friends have done so, their
fiancée got through, although it was very unclear whether their action
was helpful.

Please let me know if you need any additional information,

Regards,
Fons

Helpful websites: 
http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/guangzhou/cg/index.html

Search strategy: 
Google US consulate Guangzhou

The response was very efficent, and timely, thank you

May I also add a comment, since I answered a SARS question recently,
it occurred to me that your fiancee might be held up by SARS
quarantine measures or scares. Maybe you or she could ask around and
see if other people might be having similar problems in applying for
entry into the US.