Subject: Second Call for signature and Update Information

From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 10:45:23 CDT

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== The following are packed information on         ==
== Special Report  infor from  LAD-network         ==
== ADDRESS correspondences to the ORIGINAL SENDER  ==
== To sign on/off, mail to "[email-masked]"    ==
== 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 110 e-mail signatures at 10:00am, CDT. Many 
of them contains more than one signature. It is estimated at 
least 160 signatures are receive in our day one. We will 
post our revisions late this week. Please send in your 
signatures and comments. Thank you.

Hi, everyone. We need your help, 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 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

Only a Member of

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 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!

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