Does it matter if couples apply for a green card?

If you have applied for an immigrant visa, you will not be able to get a visa if you apply for a visit or tourist visa. I'm afraid you won't come back. And it may affect your future immigrant visa. Unless you have an irresistible reason, maybe the interviewer will consider giving you a visa. If it is a face-to-face interview, you can face to face in Chinese. Those consuls speak Chinese better than some people in China.