Subject: Sixth Call for signature

From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 93 09:49:40 CDT

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== 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              ==
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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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Hi, netters! Since there are still 2/3 netters who did not 
respond to the signature calls, we hereby announce that, all 
of your signatures ARE, and will always be, CONFIDENTIAL, 
only for the purpose of petition. Your signatures WILL NOT 
BE USED OR RELEASED for ANY OTHER PURPOSES. When we finalize 
our petition letter, we will send them to appropriate U.S. 
agencies. We will also publish a copy of the petition letter 
and all the addresses of the U.S. agencies so you can send 
your own copies to these agencies. Please remember, there is 
no free lunch at all. CSPA is very special. When it comes to 
your lads, you have to take care of yourselves. To the best 
of my knowledge, you should, our dear lads-net netters, make 
some noise, at least. Otherwise NOBODY, ABSOLUTELY NOBODY 
hears you.
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 lads in China, DED, 
90 day-rule, etc.

With limited resources and manpower, we are trying our best 
to help the whole community.

Mi Mi

Member of

Lads-net Committee

We 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. 
lad in China, DED, 90-day, etc., if applicable)
        Co-signed Child, Mr/Miss:Name(situation, e.g. 
lad in China, DED, 90-day, etc.,if applicable)

Thank you very much!

Sixth 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 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 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 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 undocumented PRC nationals who 
came before April 11, 1990, and have obtained an advance parole 
to re-enter U.S. 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 and thus are facing even longer family separation. Not 
only will those LADs whose undocumented principals be queued 
after those whose principals entered legally, which means even 
longer waiting period, but also the unpredictable number of LADs 
of undocumented PRC 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, 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 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, and it is reasonable to estimate 
that there are still world-wide quota leftover for the following 
years. Instead of wasting those leftover world-wide quota and 
letting the LADs block the doors to China regular EB-3 or EB-2 
visas, it would free these people into the world quota and 
benefit their families.

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

Their names and address are in the following attached pages.