[jisaacstone]

Took me more than a year and a letter from my congressmen to get a fiancée visa for my wife.

- Even when we finally got an interview the visa was rejected at first because I was living there, with her, instead of back in the USA, alone. They said I had not maintained 'domicile' in the USA and therefore did not intend to return home.

- When we finally received the visa it listed my father as the sponsor instead of me. We had to get a new one.

- Somewhere on the USCIS website it actually stated that applicants were 'guilty until proven innocent'

- In the waiting room, waiting for the final, correct visa there were a group of Americans waiting to adopt. They were given a nice instruction session on what to do, how to fill out the forms, how to deal with the Chinese adoption policies. I, however, felt I had been actively refused help at every turn in a deliberately opaque bureaucracy.