Subject: Call for signatures!

From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 16:51:09 CDT

Hi, everyone. We lads-net committee will do our best to serve 
every lads. We will not forget our problems. As matter of fact, 
while IFCSS HQ has shifted her attention to somewhere else, lads-
net committee tried her best to serve you with the information 
all the lads are concerned. In the past ten days, lads-net 
committee has been reaching out to all the agencies to play a 
more active role than merely sharing information with you. We 
have established friendly connection with Mr. Liu Chengyan' New 
Comer's Organization, which could become one of the IFCSS 
subcommittee in charge of solving lads-visa-crisis. We have 
channeled our concerns to the IFCSS Council, which has passed two 
bills addressing the current visa-crisis. We are also trying to 
establish close contact with Dr. Zhao 's NCCA, to voice our 
concerns and offer our support. We are now drafting a non-
political petition letters to urge all the concerned agencies to 
help us to solve the lads visa-quota problems. We need your help, 
we need all the parties to participate, including new comer 
students. Actually, a copy of this petition letter is been 
forwarded to Mr. Liu's NCO for circulation and revision. 
Hopefully, NCO will help us collect many new comer students' 
signatures as well. 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 and collect as many signatures as you can.

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 problem such as DED, 90-day, etc.

With limited resources and manpower, we are trying our best to 
help the whole community. Please help us to collect signatures, 
and help yourselves!

Mi Mi

Lads-net Committee

Please try to find as many people as you can, early comers, late 
comers, other China nationals, your American friends, to sign the 
letter. We only need you to give us the following information in 
electronically form, via e-mail, to 
[email-masked]
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.)
        Co-signed Child, Mr/Miss:Name(situation, e.g. DED, 90-
day, etc.)

Thank you very much!
					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 attention to the following two big problems 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 
2000, only these LADs will make the backlog of China's at least 
five years longer. This means that no China nationals can file 
application for adjustment of status in the next five 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. To further complicate this situation is the 
reported INS decision to include all the 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 unspecified 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 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 both in the 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) A blanket family unity program 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; 
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.

(2) 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.

    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.