Subject: fyi

From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 93 22:04:02 CDT

Subject:FYI

As September 30 nears, we CSPAers are getting more and more nervous. As
the majority of the 50,000's approval notice are nowhere and even many
have difficulties locating their files with INS' answering machine, it
seems to us that the 45,000 visa leftover is getting nowhere near being 
fully used up. That even put further question on the lads-quota issue: 
if the majority of CSPA principals can not get their approval this year, 
then the anticipated 25,000 leftover visa next year will not be enough 
for this year's leftover CSPA principals, not mention the lads even we 
sucessfully put them into the world pool.

Our emergent task, if it is all possible now, is to persuade INS to consider
the alternative plan: if the 45,000 visa can not be assigned to their owners
before September 30, due to the technical problems, just DO NOT let the 
unused visa numbers disappear. In that sense, then everybody just have to 
wait for months instead of years. Hope IFCSS HQ could do something before
it is too late. Otherwise, it will cause panic within CSPA community.

Mi Mi

Lads-net Committee

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Date:         Tue, 21 Sep 1993 21:31:39 EDT
Reply-To: Yisheng Zheng <[email-masked]>
Sender: Newsletter on Chinese Community <[email-masked]>
>From: Yisheng Zheng <[email-masked]>
Subject:      Reply from Northern Center
Comments: To: [email-masked]
To: Multiple recipients of list CCNL <[email-masked]>

Dear Netters,

If you waiting for notice from Northern Center, here is something
interesting to you.

A friend of mine call the Northern Center to check her status but
got the "status not available with this answering system" message.
Then she was connected with an INS officer.  She asked the INS
officer what happened to her case.  The INS officer is very
nice and said that if you couldn't get an answer from the
answering system, you need to wait for written notice.

My friend then asked the officer whether it is possible to know
how many CSPA applications get approved.  The INS officer said
she did not know.  But she said that with the limited resources
available, things will have to go very slowly.  She said that she
would not be surprised if many cases can not get approved before
Sept. 30, 1993.

Just for your information. (end)