From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 11:44:03 CDT

>From: [email-masked] (Chengyan Liu)
Subject: LCN News Release 09/01/93

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			      Table of Content
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		  1. An Open Letter from LCs Working Committee
		  2. A Brief Survey
		  3. Another Letter to Ms. Rita Boie
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1. An Open Letter from LCs Working Committee
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Dear LCN Readers:

	Due to the coming new semester, few message has been released
from the LCNet these days. Since every member of the LCs Working Committee
is working on a voluntary basis, you may sometimes experience some delay
of our regular broadcasting. We apologize for this and we will continue to
make every effort to publish our newsletters timely.

	We are undergoing a transition period within this working committee.
Because of the leaving of our former Chair Mr. Chengyan Liu to IFCSS, Mr.
Bin Xiao and Mr. Min Gao agree to serve as interim Chair and interim Vice
Chair respectively. We are at a crucial time when our future goals need to
be defined. If you happen to have any idea, please don't hesitate to let us
know. We have to collect all the good opinions.

	In order to serve our fellow Chinese students and scholars better
and make our work more efficient, this working committee applied for a
listserv account in mid August through CCIC (Chinese Computing Information
Center, an organization affiliated with IFCSS). And we have just been
notified that the application has been approved and a listserv account
dedicated to all Chinese students and scholars who came to the United States
after April 11, 1990 has been set up.

	If you or your friends are not in this list, please send
		 sub lc-l your_first_name your_last_name
as body message to [email-masked]. If you or your friends want to
unsubscribe our News Release and related discussions, please send
		 unsub lc-l
as body message to [email-masked].

	We need to emphasise that this is achieved and made possible by all
our netters like you. Therefore, the service will be dedicated to the needs
of our fellow Chinese students and scholars. We welcome our netters to send
your comments to us, and we are looking forward to reading your postings
soon.

LCs Working Committee
	
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2. A Brief Survey
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[Editor's note: In order to serve Late Arriving Fellow Chinese Students
		and Scholars better, we disigned the following mini-survey.
		Please send your answer to [email-masked]. We'll
		inform you the results after we finished the survey.]

		  ----------Mini_Survey Begin----------
    1. How did you evaluate LCs Working Committee's activities?
       Is that good enough or need major improvement?
       If improvement is necessary, please indicate specifically which
	   one should be improved.
    2. What's your opinions about current strategies to cooperate with
       IFCSS, LAD net and other organizations?
       Especially, did you think our agreement that let former Chair
       Chengyan Liu work inside IFCSS is a good idea?
    3. We are contacting some law firms.
       What you think about the main focus should be?
       Is it good enough only to protect EP2 and push LADs use world quota?
       Did you think some kind of extention of CSPA is possible?
       Or what should LCs Working Committee bargaining with law firm to
	   achieve the better results?
    4. If the lobby begin, did you like to donate some money for the use of
	   lobbying?
       Or if you agree to contribute some amount of money, what's the upper
	   limit you accept?
    5. Did you think we should talk to INS, Senator Immigration sub-committee,
	   Department of Justice and the White House directly at current time?
       How can we finance these activities?
    6. Beyond CSPA, what you think we should do? Assist some people attend
	   academic conference, assist Late Comers get working permit, assist
	   some people get intership, etc.

    Since all the above questions is tied with Late Arriving Fellow Chinese
Students and Scholars, so if we can work together we can achieve what we
want. We LCs Working Committee hope you can consult your schoolmate, as some
of them have no access to e-mail, before you send out your precious opinions.

		      ----------Mini_Survey End----------

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3. Another Letter to Ms. Rita Boie
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[Editor's note: The following letter was written by Mi Mi, an activist of
		Late Arriving Dependents net (LADnet). In order to collect
		more signatures in the letter, the author of the letter
		asked us to carry it in our LCN net. One of the aims of the
		letter is to push the use of world quota for LADs, a practice
		which will benefit some of LCs who would use EP3 to apply for
		PR. LCs Working Committee agrees with their effort in general,
		but the opinions expressed in the letter are not that of
		LCs Working Committee. If you agree with the contents of the
		letter, and like to sign your name on the letter, please send
		e-mail to:
				       [email-masked]
				       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
		The desired format is:
		Mr./Ms/Miss:Name,Address,City,State,ZipCode,Tel#
		Co-signed Spouse, Mr/Ms: Name]

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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

  RE: Chinese Student Protection Act (CSPA)

  Dear Madam Boie,

	  We, a group of concerned and sympathetic individuals who
  signed their names and addresses here, 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
  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 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 Chinese
  nationals can file applications for adjustment of status under
  EB-3 or FB-2 categories in the next four years. According to the
  recent INS Cable on August 13, those undocumented Chinese
  nationals, who came before April 11, 1990, and have obtained an
  advance parole to re-enter U.S., are allowed 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 whose principals entered
  legally, and thus are facing even longer family separation. Not
  only will those LADs whose principals are undocumented be queued
  after those whose principals entered legally, which means even
  longer waiting period, but also the unpredictable number of LADs
  of undocumented Chinese 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, Executive
  Order 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, it is reasonable to estimate that
  there are still world-wide quota leftover for the following
  years. Instead of wasting those leftover world-wide quotas and
  letting the LADs block the doors to China's regular EB-3 and EB-2
  channels, re-allocating LAD in to the world quota would solve
  backlog problems and benefit many Chinese families in general.

  (2) A blanket family unity program, we believe, should be
  established to include all late-arriving dependents. This program
  should mirror the benefits of Executive Order 12711 to (a) 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", (b) 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,(c) provide liberal advance parole, (d) provide
  employment authorization for the dependents while their
  applications are being processed, and (e) 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 initiating LADs Network members, and co-signed by all
  the concerned and sympathetic Chinese nationals

  Their names and address are in the following attached pages.

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|     Editor-in-Chief: Enhua He, New York University                        |
|     Executive Editors: Xiaodong Huang, North Carolina State University    |
|                        Chengyan Liu, Washington Univ. at St. Louis        |
|     Comments and Posts: [email-masked]                             |
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