Subject: Fourth Call For Signature

From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 13:09:03 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 290 e-mail signatures up to 8:00am, EDT. Many of 
them contains more than one signature. It is estimated at least 
600 signatures are receive in three days. During the mean time, 
we received many valuable suggestions on grammatical errors, 
detailed corrections, and situation analysis. We sincerely thank 
you all our lads-net supporters. Without your support, we can not 
make this petition signature drive possible. Based on many 
netters suggestion, we have many corrections and revisions in 
this new version. Please continue to send in your signatures and 
comments. Thank you.

As we have expressed all the times, our lads-net has been, and 
will always be a non-political and non-profit organization. We 
are not affiliated with any other political and nonpolitical 
organizations. Our goal is to help our netters, our CSS community 
in general. No matter when you came to this land, we are all 
brothers and sisters. We do not believe a divided CSS community 
is STRONGER. In the past days, Mi Mi, caused some confusion about 
some other organization's name. He sincerely apologizes for that 
inconvenience. 

Some netters have offered strategy suggestions. As we all know, 
the lads issue, might need some legislature change. To lobby the 
Congress means to hire some professional firms to do it. While 
the option is still open, Mi Mi, doubts the feasibility of such 
an option for our lads-net committee alone, based on our 
committee's capabilities. Even as we have reached out to all the 
concerned parties, and for some reasons, some obstacles of fully 
cooperation still exist. With a divided CSS community, nothing, 
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, can be achieved. Please think about this.

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 for 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 
electronically 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!

Third 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, CSPA principals with Late-Arriving Dependents, and  all 
the sympathetic individuals, 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 other PRC nationals can 
file applications for adjustment of status under EB-3 or FB-2 
categories in the next four years. So those who are eligible to 
adjust their status  in the normal situation will have to wait 
for four more years to file their applications. The recently 
reported decision of INS is to allow those illegally entered PRC 
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 which 
are implanted in the  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, which means even  longer waiting period, but also the 
unpredictable number of LADs of illegally entered PRC nationals 
will jam the normal China EB-3 and FB-2 categories for even more 
years. As Americans cherish their traditional family values, 
family unity 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, E.O.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.  
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 letting 
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 include all late-arriving dependents. This program 
should mirror the benefits of E.O. 12711 to (1) give dependents 
in China that 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 they wait for 
their PR being granted; 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 waiting for your kind 
consideration.

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

Their names and address are in the following attached pages.