Subject: Lads-net Petition, 1st Round

From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 93 14:31:33 CDT

Dear Lads-net Netters:

After revisions made by various concerned netters, and a Ph.D. candidate 
majoring English and his Professor, we finalized our petition letter. 
Since the signatures are still rushing in, we lads-net committee decide to 
send out our petition letters in waves, each wave contains a new collection 
of signatures, until we get the attention we need. 

As CSPA is implemented, our lads, are left forgotten by some parties. More
attention is paid to our undocumented fellow country people, since they
bring more, much more bussiness to the Immigration Lawyer's Community. As
our counterpart, the late-arriving-students are organizing themselvs to 
vigorously participate in the IFCSS and CSPA affairs, we lads community, 
are patiently sitting on the "cold benches" watching the games going on.
Well, we need to do something more than watching.

Following is the final version of our petition letter, and addresses you 
can send them the letters. Our collective petition letters containing first
round of signatures (total 524, cut off before August 25) are sent out by 
Mi Mi and other aommittee members. It is your turn to send in yours, with
your signatures and address. Since there is no lawyers working on our side
(we can not afford the price), since so many lawyers working very hard on the 
other side, we have to do something. If we are even forgotten by ourselvs,
than who cares us? 

Please step forward, and fire your round of bullets: each dear netter
fires 5 bullets, and there will be 1000 letters for each recipients, and 
that will surely make a difference! Remember what I forwarded to you the
other day, Madam Rita A.Boie is back from her vocation, and Mr. Clinton
has nothing particular to do in the comming weekend, so, please!

Madam Rita A.Boie
Senior Immigration Examier
Adjudication Branch
Immigration & Naturalization Services
425 I Street NW, room 5307
Washington, DC 20536
FAX: (202)514-0198

White House:
The Honorable William Clinton
The White House
1600 Pennsyvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington DC 20500
FAX: (202) 456-2461

Attorney General
The Honorable Madam Janet Reno
U.S. Attorney General
Fax: (202) 514-4371

Ms. Philis Coven
Assistant to Attorney General
Fax:(202)-514-0238

Mr. Eric Schwartz
Director of Refugees & Humanitarian Affairs
National Security Council
The White House, !600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington D.C. 20506

RE: Chinese Student Protection Act (CSPA)

RE: Chinese Student Protection Act (CSPA)

	We, a group of concerned individuals who have signed 
our names and addresses below, 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 
the 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 or FB-2 
during this August and September. Since the annual China 
quota in EB-3 or FB-2 is about 2500, these LADs only will 
cause a backlog in China's quota for at least four years. 
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. What is worse, according 
to the INS Cable on August 13, those undocumented Chinese 
nationals who came before April 11, 1990 and have since 
obtained an advance parole to re-enter the U.S. are now 
allowed to apply under CSPA. While this new decision 
reflects the humanitarian and protective spirit embedded in 
the Executive Order 12711, these additional applicants with 
their LADs actually face even greater difficulties, because 
most of their LADs are queued after the existing pool of 
LADs whose principals entered the United States legally. 
These people, then, will be subject to an even longer period 
of family separation. In addition, the unpredictable number 
of LADs of undocumented Chinese nationals will jam the 
normal China EB-3 and FB-2 categories for even more years. 
The traditional values of family ties, family unity and 
humanity, cherished so dearly by the American people, are 
also deeply rooted in the Chinese culture and in every 
Chinese family. The anticipated long separation due to visa 
quota allocation will surely bring agony and misery to those 
families, in contradiction to the humanitarian spirit 
embedded in the INA, Executive order 12711 and CSPA.

	(2) For dependents still remaining in China, the 
situation is even more bleak. These individuals, most of 
whom are minor children, as our survey of our LADs community 
shows, would be required to wait in China until visa numbers 
are available. They could potentially be separated from 
their parents for many years. The separation will not only 
deprive these minor children of their much needed parental 
care, but also strain the precious family ties in those 
families. In addition, many of the dependents, both in the 
U.S. and in China, who are now considered children, might 
reach the age of 21 prior to visa availability. This would 
disqualify them for visa issuance.

	To solve these problems, we would like to suggest the 
following:

	(1) Re-allocate the LADs into the world quota. Since 
the CSPA principals have been allocated into the world-wide 
quota leftovers for fiscal year 1993, it is reasonable to 
assume that there might be similar world-wide quota 
leftovers for the next few years. Instead of wasting these 
leftover world-wide quotas while letting the LADs block 
China's regular EB-3 and EB-2 channels, re-allocating LADs 
to the world quota would solve the backlog problem, thus 
benefiting many Chinese families at the expense of no-one.

	(2) Establish a blanket family unity program to include 
all late-arriving dependents. This program should mirror the 
benefits of Executive Order 12711 in (a) giving favorable 
considerations to the dependents in China who request non-
immigrant visas to visit their family in the U.S., so that 
their visa application will not be simply rejected due to 
the "immigration intent"; (b) presuming the non-immigrant 
status of LADs for adjustment purposes, so as to eliminate 
the DED problem faced by an estimated 50% of the LAD 
population; (c) providing liberal advance paroles; (d) 
providing employment authorization for the dependents while 
their applications are being processed; and (e) allowing 
children who are 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 application for such 
adjustment. This family unity program should solve problems 
in the case by case voluntary departure program and shorten 
family separation resulting from non-immigrant visa denial.

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

Sincerely Yours,