Subject: Local INS Status, Package #1.3

From: [email-masked] (shengj)
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1993 16:30:12 -0400 (EDT)

Hi, netters,
The following is a list of local INS offices' status on LAD issue. For
those wish withhold their addresses please tell me. The default
is posting the addresses for netters' reference.  This list is updated every
day. Netters may still go their INS office even status is rejected and tell me
your experience there so that this list can be mostly updated. After the list,
there is a Q&A list regarding to local INS on LAD applications.

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Date 08/07, 4:30PM

              	STATUS	SOURCE
Arlington	accept	[email-masked]

Atlanta         accept	[email-masked]

Buffalo         accept  [email-masked]

Boston          accept  [email-masked]
note 1> 2year waiver may not be needed from 08/09

Chicago       	accept	[email-masked]
note 1> quotations from a anonymous posting as your reference:
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Chicago INS information:
  Chicago accepted the application today. They do not check the birth
 certificate and marrige license. You may need the form for your 2 year waive
 if you are J-?er. I happened to hear two officials discuss such matter.
     A: Hi, B. How to handle chinese J visa two year waive? Do they need file
        a form?
     B: No they do not need file the form. I think they automatically get the
        waive.
     A. Are you sure?
     B. No,I am not. You better ask C.
It was 3.00pm. It was going to close. No one chinese got trouble.
 Few things I want to mension are:
   1. They need your original I-94 form.
   2. Even you have the evidence to support your family, you still need file
  the Form I-134. The form I-134 is filed by YOU, not some esle. You can file
 there or take home and bring back when interview.
   3. You will get interview date which is exact two monthes later.
   4. They don not look whatever you file (b) of part 2 and  YES or Not of
   "apply with you" in the Form I-485.
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Dallas      	accept	[email-masked]
notes 1>  an interview date was assigned in mid October for a F-1

Detroit         accept

Hawaii          accept

Houston       	accept	[email-masked]

Indianapolis    accept	[email-masked]
note 1> secondary evidence for BC(Birth Certificate) seems ok.

Jacksonvile     accept	[email-masked]
note 1> application can only be sent by mail.

Kansas City     accept	[email-masked]
note 1>  need official birth certificate from china(Public notary).

Los Angeles     accept

Louisville      reject	[email-masked]
note 1> Birth Certificate Need to be Certified by U.S. Embassy in China

Memphis         accept

Miami           accept	[email-masked]
note 1> INS reject applications of LAD married after 4/11/90

Missouri        accept	[email-masked] 
note 1> quote from linhia:
        Birth certificate need to be made and notrized in China.
        Marrige certificate notrized in U.S. is acceptable,
        but has to translated by other than that couples on the
        certificate.  The translater need sigh his name on there
        and with his address.

Pittsburgh    	accept	[email-masked]
note 1> 2year waiver may be needed before applying PR J visa holders

Philadelphia    accept	***@***.***.EDU

Portland        accept

Salt Lake City  reject	[email-masked]

San Antonio	accept	[email-masked]

San Francisco   accept

St. Albans      accept	[email-masked]

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Q & A:
1.3-1
>[email-masked]  writes on Fri Aug  6 23:29:15 1993:
>I think the compiled list is somewhat misleading. When you put the
>"accept" there, you probably should also put the troubles people may have.
>Take the Miami office for example, there is only one post up to now (as
>far as I know) which only tells that the office refused to accept applications
>of LAD who got married after 4/11/90. Nobody has posted any news on the
>acceptance of other LADS' applications. It would be better, therefore, to
>put that in the list to let people know.
A: No notes following a local INS means there is no further information
   available about the INS, which includes special rules the local INS applies
   to implementation of LAD applications. Please provide us anything you knew
   about your INS which is not included in the list or is contradicting to
   existing notes. Therefore the infomation can be updated, added and corrected

1.3-2
>[email-masked]  write on Fri Aug  6 21:45:16 1993:
>    I am glad to see your list about local INS status. Do you know any
>information about New York INS? Accept or reject? Any limitation for married 
>date (I am married in 1991)? I saw the last information about New York INS 
>is "08/04, reject". 
A: No news about New York so far.