Subject: Call for Signatures

From: Mi Mi <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 21:51:12 CDT

Dear CND-US Editor:

The following is our the letter calling for signatures and our
petition letter to US government agencies, including White House
and Justis Department, and/or Congress. Since this petition drive
concerns most of LADs and new-comer-fellow-students, we believe it
is important to send it to a larger audience, and call more signatures.
Since number does not in U.S., please help our LADs and NCFS!

Lads-net Committee

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|       Call for Signatures to Support Our Petition Drive       |
|                      Lads-net Committee                       |
|                       September 1, 1993                       |
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We, the lads-net committee, are volunteers who dedicated to serve
CSPA late-arriving-dependents (LADs). As we are closely
monitoring the current development of implementation of CSPA, we
believe it is the time to call your attention to the imminent
visa crisis faced by CSS and Chinese American in general and our
petition to the appropriate U.S. agencies.

As stated in INS wire #5, carried by CD-US on August 28, those
undocumented Chinese nationals who previously were not eligible
to apply for permanent residency per CSPA, are allowed to apply.
The criterion of the eligibility is, those undocumented Chinese
nationals must come before April 11, 1990,  obtain Advance Parole
and reenter the U.S. While this new decision reflects the
humanitarian spirit of CSPA and Executive Order 12711,  this new
policy change, however, will cause serious backlog in China's
normal immigration channels if there is no appropriate follow up
changes in the implementation of CSPA.

As we all know now, while CSPA principals are subject to
worldwide quota, their LADs, are subject to the China's quotas.
As surveyed by IFCSS HQ, there are approximately 10,000 LADs
whose principals are documented. All of these LADs, will have to
use China's EB-3 and FB-2 quotas per INA, and will probably cause
four years backlog in these two categories.

The new policy change of INS, will push the backlogs even
further. While the undocumented Chinese Nationals are also
subject to worldwide quota, their LADs, will be added to the
existing pool of those whose principals are documented. While the
number of this group of LADs is unpredictable, it is plausible
that the number is at least comparable to those estimated by
IFCSS HQ, e.g., around 10,000. The anticipated long waiting
period for all of those Chinese nationals who will use China's
normal immigration channels is almost unbearable. The immediately
impact on the CSS community is, most new comer fellow students
will be excluded from EB-3, and those who have or will have
dependents in China will have to wait for more years to do so.

Based on the above assessment, we, the lads-net committee, are
calling signatures to support our petition campaign to push those
LADs in to the world-wide quota. Our goals are very simple:

1) Speed up CSPA LADs processing.
2) Save China's quota for general CSS and Chinese Community
public.
3) Solve the other lads problems such as lads in China, DED,
90 day-rule, etc.

Please show your support to our petition drive. Please send your
signature in the folllowing form

Mr./Ms/Miss:Name,Address,City,State,ZipCode,Tel#
        Co-signed Spouse,
        Co-signed Child,

electronically, via e-mail, to
[email-masked]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Thank you very much!

Lads-net Committee

					c/o  ********
					*******************

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

RE: Chinese Student Protection Act (CSPA)

Dear Madam Boie,

	We, a group of concerned and sympathetic individuals who
signed their names and addresses here, would like to call your
kindly attention to the following problems involved in subjecting
Late-Arriving Dependents (LAD) of CSPA principals to the China
quota.

(1) According to the survey made by the Headquarters of
Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars (IFCSS
HQ), there are approximately 10000 eligible LADs in the U.S. 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 other Chinese
nationals can file applications for adjustment of status under
EB-3 or FB-2 categories in the next four years. According to the
recent INS Cable on August 13, those undocumented Chinese
nationals, who came before April 11, 1990, and have obtained an
advance parole to re-enter U.S., are allowed to apply under CSPA.
While this new decision reflects the humanitarian and protection
spirit which are implanted in the Executive Order 12711, those
added applicants with their LADs are facing even more
difficulties than anyone else because their LADs are mostly
queued after the existing pool of LADs whose principals entered
legally, and thus are facing even longer family separation. Not
only will those LADs whose principals are undocumented be queued
after those whose principals entered legally, which means even
longer waiting period, but also the unpredictable number of LADs
of undocumented Chinese nationals will jam the normal China EB-3
and FB-2 categories for even more years. As Americans cherish
their traditional family unity, 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 imbedded in the INA, Executive
Order 12711 and CSPA.

(2) For dependents remaining in China, the situation is even more
bleak. These individuals, most of them are minor children, as we
have surveyed among our LADs community, would be required to wait
in China until visa numbers are available and thus could
potentially be separated from their parents for many years. The
separation will not only deprive those minor children of the much
needed parental care, but also damage the precious family ties of
those families. In addition, many of the dependents, both in the
U.S. 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 the world quota. Since the CSPA
principals have been allocated into the world-wide 46,000 quota
leftovers for fiscal year 1993, it is reasonable to estimate that
there are still world-wide quota leftover for the following
years. Instead of wasting those leftover world-wide quotas and
letting the LADs block the doors to China's regular EB-3 and EB-2
channels, re-allocating LAD in to the world quota would solve
backlog problems and benefit many Chinese families in general.

(2) A blanket family unity program, we believe, should be
established to include all late-arriving dependents. This program
should mirror the benefits of Executive Order 12711 to (1) give
dependents in China who request non-immigrant visas to visit
family in the U.S. favorable consideration and not to be flatly
rejected due to the "immigrant intent", (2) 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,(3) provide liberal advance parole, (4) provide
employment authorization for the dependents while their
applications are being processed, and (5)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 and family separation resulted from non-immigrant visa
denial.

Thank you for your attention. We are looking forward to hearing
from you soon.

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

Their names and address are in the following attached pages.