From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 93 12:30:07 CDT

Q: WHAT DID YOU MEAN BY "UNDOCUMENTED CHINESE NATIONALS" ? 
A: Undocumented means those who entered without proper documents, e.g.,
   those who walked through Mexican Border without being checked by an INS
   officer. Many Chinese nationals boarded cargo ship to sail to the American
   shores. Some of them run aground, like the "Golden Venture".
Dear Lads-net netters:

1) Our number of signature e-mails has reached 607. It is still hard to
estimate how many signatures we have right now, but it is well over 1500,
and it is still increasing.

2) LCnet and CND-US both carried our petition drive-related news and 
signature collecting address. Since most schools start in September, 
we can expect more netters to back our petition.

3) One netter told us his although he got his lads application filed, and 
had an appointment date set for his lads, however, the appointment has been
cancelled by the INS afterwards, and he does not know why. The incident was 
reported and carried by lads-net newsrelease. So, the conclusion: it is not
the time to celebrate for your lads. Even you have got an interview date,
it is still not final.

4) IFCSS HQ is now working hard on lads-related issue. Although the golden
time of June and July has passed, there is still room for us to put on 
pressure. One of my friends with DED lads hired a very famous lawyer for his
case. The lawyer addmitted that he himself does not know the rules for DED
lads. No body knows, says he, even INS people. But he has not received any
rejections so far from NYC INS. One thing very interesting is, he 
thinks EB-3 is good and fast for my friend. He said if the waiting list for
EB-3 is getting longer, then he will file FB-2 for my friend as well. He 
believes, there might be a blanket waiver for those DED lads for third 
country interview. So, keep on working hard is important. While LCnet
and CND-US carried our letter, it is very important for us to work with all
the parties to pursue our demand.

5) In order to get more signaturs, we are trying to reach out to the Chinese
Immigrants Community in general. We have persuad one local paper to carry our
petition lettter. We also plan to put it to the World Journal. Since putting
lads into world quota benefits Chinese Community in general, we believe we
will receive more and more signatures. But, due to the limited manpower we
have, we are calling you, our dear netters, to step forward to become our
local coordinators, to actively participate in our signature drive nationwide.
Please give us your phone number and address, if your are willing to be our
local coordinator. Your duties will be answering some phone calls, and collect
signatures, and send them back to the lads-net collecting e-mail address. 
Please help lads-net and help yourselves!
 
6) We plan to send out petition letter in waves. Each wave of letter contains
the signatures collected in the previous time interval, say, in two weeks.
The stragety is to keep INS and concerned officials reminded our demand, until
the problem is finally solved, or we have exhuasted of our options. We are 
finalizing our letter, to find a native reader to proofread it. We are also
working on the Chinese version for Chinese medias. Once the English version
is ready, we will send out our first wave of letters. IFCSS HQ has supplied 
us with appropriate addresses, and we will ask for more.

Keep on working!

Mi Mi

Lads-net Committee