Subject: Third Call for Signatures And Update

From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 07:28:00 CDT

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== The following are packed information on         ==
== Special Report  infor from  LADs-network        ==
== ADDRESS correspondences to the ORIGINAL SENDER  ==
== To sign on/off, mail to [email-masked] ==
== In mailbody, write: sub lads-l Firstname Lastname=
== In mailbody, write: signoff lads-l              ==
== To post,        mail to "[email-masked]" ==
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== lads-net committee is a group of volunteers     ==
== who have lads just like you. If you have any    ==
== suggestions, criticisms, comments and concerns, ==
== please let us know. If you want to join us to   ==
== serve the lads-community, you are highly        ==
== encouraged to do so. Mi Mi.                     ==
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We have received 210 e-mail signatures at 23:00am, CDT. Many of 
them contains more than one signature. It is estimated at least 
500 signatures are receive in two days. We will post our 
revisions late this week. Please send in your signatures and 
comments. Thank you.

Note:
1) Please do not send your signature file to ME. If you do, 
please do not forward the whole package back to me. I have it 
myself.

2) Please forward your comments and suggestions to me. If there 
is someone of English major, please help me to do it better.

3) Please collect as many signatures as you can. We need all the 
parties to participate, including new comer students. From the 
past experience, we all know the number is very important in this 
land. Particularly, we need YOUR SIGNATURES, and your support. 
Please pass the draft petition letters around 

Our goal is very simple.
1) Push lads into the world-wide-quota: 
	cut the waiting period or lads,
	save the China quota for new comer students;
2) Solve the other lads problems such as DED, 90-day, etc.

With limited resources and manpower, we are trying our best to 
help the whole community.

Mi Mi

Only a Member of

Lads-net Committee

We only need you to give us the following information in 
electronical form, via e-mail, to 

[email-masked]
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The desired format is:
Mr./Ms/Miss:Name,Address,City,State,ZipCode,Tel#
        Co-signed Spouse, Mr/Ms:Name(situation, e.g. DED, 90-day, 
etc., if applicable)
        Co-signed Child, Mr/Miss:Name(situation, e.g. DED, 90-
day, etc.,if applicable)

Thank you very much!

Second draft follows:==========================================

					LADs Network Members
					c/o  ********
					*******************

Madam Rita A. Boie
Senior Immigration Examiner
Adjudication Branch
Immigration & Naturalization Services
425 I Street NW, room 5307
Washington, DC 20536

Dear Madam Rita A. Boie,

	We, Late-Arriving Dependents (LADs) and CSPA principals with 
LADs, who signed their names and addresses here, would like to 
call your kindly attention to the following plight involved in 
subjecting LADs to the China quota.

(1) According to the survey made by IFCSS HQ, there are 
approximately 10000 eligible LADs in the US who may file their 
applications under EB-3 and FB-2 during this August and 
September. Since the annual China quota in EB-3 or FB-2 is about 
2500, only these LADs will make the backlog of China's at least 
four years longer. This means that no China nationals can file 
applications for adjustment of status in the next four years. So 
those who are eligible to adjust their status under EB-3 or FB-2 
in the normal situation will have to wait four more years to file 
their applications. The recently reported decision of INS is to 
allow those illegally entered China nationals who came before 
April 11, 1990, and have obtained an advance parole to re-enter 
US to apply under CSPA. While this new decision reflects the 
spirit of humanitarian and protection that are implanted in the 
then President's Executive Order 12711, those added applicants 
with their LADs are facing more difficulties than anyone else. 
Not only those LADs whose principals entered illegally will be 
queued after those whose principals entered legally, that means 
even  longer waiting period, but also the unpredictable number of 
LADs will jam the normal China EB-3 and FB-2 categories for even 
more years. As Americans cherish their traditional family values 
and humanity, those traditional values are also deeply rooted in 
the Chinese culture and every Chinese family. The anticipated 
long separation of those families resulted from visa quota 
allocation problem will surely bring sadness and suffering to 
those families, and thus contradict the humanitarian spirit 
written in the INA, E.O.12711 and CSPA.

(2) For dependents remaining in China, the situation is even more 
bleak. These individuals would be required to wait in China until 
visa numbers are available that could potentially separate 
families for over five years. The chances of obtaining a non 
immigrant visa to enter the US. are severely hampered for the 
dependents of a spouse or parent in the US. In addition, many of 
the dependents, both in the US. and in China, who are now 
considered children, will reach the age of 21 prior to visa 
availability. This would disqualify them for visa issuance.

Before more efficient solutions are found, we believe that two 
solutions are practical now.

(1) Re-allocate the LADs into world quota. The CSPA principals 
can be allocated into the world-wide 46,000 quota leftovers for 
fiscal year 1993 and it is reasonable to estimate that there are 
still world-wide quota leftover next years. Instead of let the 
LADs blocking the doors to China regular EB-3 or EP-2 visas, we 
free these people into the world quota.

(2) A blanket family unity program, we believe, should be 
established to protect all late-arriving dependents. This program 
should mirror the benefits of E.O. 12711 to (1) provide 
employment authorization for the duration of the dependents' 
wait; (2) provide liberal advance parole; (3) deem the individual 
to maintain his/her non immigrant status for adjustment purposes, 
thus to eliminate the DED problem faced by the estimated 50% for 
LADS population, and (4) allow children under twenty-one on the 
date of the CSPA principal's approval to be eligible for 
adjustment even if they are over twenty-one at the date of 
adjustment. This family unity program would resolve the problems 
involved with the case by case voluntary departure program.

Thank you for your attention. We are waiting for your kind 
consideration.

Signed by LADs Network members, and co-signed by all the 
concerned and sympathetic China nationals

Their names and address are in the following attached pages.