From iuvax!mailrus!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!violet!rzhu Mon Mar  6 19:51:43 EST 1989
Article 12550 of soc.culture.china:
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>From: rzhu@violet.waterloo.edu (Rupert Zhu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Passport Problem:  Final Listing  (G-7)
Keywords: Final Listing of Complete Collection of the Series
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================ Information from Xiaoping Yuan's Friend ================

                             Final Listing
                                   of
               Complete Collection of Passport Problem Series
   

I. General Information

G-1,  The information from a Chinese officer in charge of student affairs
      (Dec. 20, 1988, 104 lines)
            
G-2,  The conversation over telephone with a Chinese consul in Houston
      (Jan. 6, 1989, 107 lines)

G-3,  A few words from the author
      (Jan. 26, 1989, 122 lines)

G-4,  Information about big lawyer;  PRC exit control loosened since 1989
      (Feb. 6, 1989, 80 lines, revised version)
       
G-5,  US INS statistics of  the number of J-1/J-2, F-1/F-2
      and green card issued to PRC citizens in the last three years
      (Feb. 12, 1989, 93 lines)

G-6,  Complete definition of US entry visa from A through P
      (Feb. 18, 1989, 111 lines)

G-7,  Final listing of the complete collection of the series (this posting)
      (Feb. 28, 1989, 127 lines)


II. Subtopic Discussion

T-1,  Part I    Five kinds of PRC passport and other travel documents
                (Jan. 6, 1989, 147 lines)

T-2,  Part II   Exit/Entry PRC as a PRC citizen
                (Jan. 13, 1989, 235 lines)

T-3,  Part III  Change J-1 to F-1;  J-1 and Green card
                (Jan. 20, 237 lines)

T-4,  Part IV   ABC's passport and citizenship problem 
                (Jan. 20, 1989, 205 lines)

T-5,  Part V    Brief on Taiwan's passport problem
                (Feb. 4, 1989, 231 lines)


III. Individual Case Discussion
   
Q-1,  Second person lost passport
      (Jan. 20, 1989, 52 lines)

Q-2,  Dark brown passport with US green card
      (Jan. 17, 1989, 51 lines)

Q-3,  International Refugee Passport and Dr. Wang Bin-Zhang's case
      (Jan. 23, 1989, 59 lines)

Q-4,  Further discussion on ABC's passport problem
      (Feb. 2, 1989, 145 lines)

Q-5,  Applying for the waiver of two-year home country physical stay
      (Feb. 10, 1989, 100 lines)

Q-6,  From J-2 to F-1;  Change J-1 to F-1 outside US
      (Feb. 14, 1989, 104 lines)

Q-7,  Changing J-1 visa to F-1 status within US
      (Feb. 16, 1989, 196 lines)

Q-8,  Preparing documents for applying for the waiver of two-year rule
      (Feb. 22, 1989, 153 lines)

Q-9,  Stay in US with ABC;  Get green card now;  J-2er seeks job
      (Feb. 24, 1989, 240 lines)

Q-10, Family members' passport problems, F-2, parents and finance/e
      (Feb. 26, 1989, 200 lines)

Q-11, Switch to US from Europe;  Change visiting scholar to student status
      (Mar. 1, 1989, 150 lines)

Q-12, Settle I-94 before visiting home;  Renew light brown passport;  F-1ers
      (Mar. 3, 1989, 193 lines)


Total twenty-four articles in the series.

   If you want a COMPLETE COLLECTION of the series but missed some articles, 
send your request to:        rzhu@violet.waterloo.edu
This service will only last for two weeks from now on.

                         Future plan on the series
                         -------------------------

More articles on the subtopics listed below might be written either by me or
by other SCC netters sometime later.  However, I don't have much information for
the following subtopics as I had in the previous articles.  I would like to 
read some articles written by the rest of SCC netters on the issue and 
subtopics.  I believe that someone on the net holds large amount of information
as well,  I sincerely invite them to show up.   

More        * DIVORCE and MARRY: the procedure and passport/visa problem
proposed                         for Chinese students in US.
subtopics:  * The PROBLEMS for Chinese F-1 students in US.
            * Immigration lawyer or immigration guide books, which way to go?
                                  
            * What's the procedure to apply for various PRC passports in China?
            * The skills in interview and preparing documents for visa to US.
            * Some experience with Chinese Customs House, Frontier Station and
              Air China (CAAC).
            * Apply for US student visa from outside China.
            * Tips on international travel as a PRC citizen.
            * How to apply to visit Hong Kong/Macao from inside/outside China? 
            * How will PRC passport bearers be treated when they are in West 
              Germany, Scandinavia countries and Brazil?  how to apply visa 
              to these countries from outside China?

================== The End of The Passport Problem Series =================
                                                                           .


From iuvax!mailrus!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!violet!rzhu Mon Mar  6 19:55:49 EST 1989
Article 12551 of soc.culture.china:
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>From: rzhu@violet.waterloo.edu (Rupert Zhu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Passport Problem:  Closing Remark
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Date: 6 Mar 89 17:10:10 GMT
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Dear Friends:

      The Passport Problem Series will finish today.  From the Catalogue
(G-7) we can see that it is really a big collection.  They are very
interesting, very colorful and very helpful.   The total writing work
amount to about 3400 lines.  What a meta-project!

      In the past two months, I, as a relay station, has received and 
transferred about 60 questions to the author.  With great effort and 
patience, he answered all of those questions received before February 22 
in Q-1 through Q-12.  Two days ago, the author reviewed the questions 
after Feb. 22 and judged that most of the questions have been answered 
in this series.  The author ask those friends who have not got a direct 
answer from him to read the whole series carefully and find solution 
themselves.

      According to the author, there is indeed one big question he has
not mentioned much --- the F-1 problems.  This is a big topic itself and 
need a few 200-line articles to discuss.  This topic may be discussed in 
next session if the author can schedule his time.

      During the whole process of this series, I handled about 120--150
E-mails.  I did as such: for each question message, I transfer it right
away to the author and then reply to the sender to acknowledge the
receiving.  The author answers the questions in the Q-subseries, or write
separate answer to the sender if the question does not have general 
interest.

      For each request on the COMPLETE COLLECTION, I just put it into a
queue and send no reply message.  I send the collections once a week and
clear the queue.  About 50 COMPLETE COLLECTION have been sent out, which
amount to more than 700 separate E-mails.  

      It is worth mentioning that the request E-mails came from USA, Canada, 
Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Netherland, New Zealand, Australia,
and possibly more countries.  What an international event!

      At the moment of closing, I would like to express sincere thanks to
the author for his very great effort.  While he himself is a full-time
graduate student in computer science, he has squeezed out all his time
to help our fellow students.  I believe most of SCC readers have been
grateful to him.

      At the end of the Catalogue, the author kindly listed some proposed
topics which might be discussed in some future session.  Meanwhile, the
author expressed that he would be more than happy if some friend would
like to take his stand and contribute on those topics or any other topics
which have concern to our fellow students.  He said: "Let's work together
and let's help each other!"

      My service as a relay station will continue for two more weeks,
mainly for sending out COMPLETE COLLECTIONS on reader's request.  ENCS
has included most of this series in its weekly issues and they usually
keep archive files in some base-camp.  So readers still have chance to
obtain back issues after our service session.

      Today is a very special day to the author.  It is not only the day 
when the Passport Series is finished, but also the 32nd birthday of him.
Happy Return, My Friend!

      The Passport Problem Series is now formally concluded.  It is a very
nice and pleasant end.

      DEAR FRIENDS, GOODBYE!

                                                Rupert Zhu

                                               for the Author

                                                March 6, 1989

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