From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 93 09:15:13 CDT

The following is the message from a netter resides in the western region. 
Mi Mi Sr. has forwarded his message to IFCSS HQ. Hopefully this problem will
be resolved quickly.

Mi Mi Sr.

Lads-Net Committee

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Date:     Wed, 6 Oct 93 17:06:15 PDT
>From: [email-masked]
Subject:  some bad news from INS
To: [email-masked]

Hi Mi MI Sr.:

There are still a quite few CSPA principals who have not received their 
approval notices so far although most CSPA have. Today is Oct. 6.

At UCSB campus, there are about 16 CSPA applicants, 4 of them haven't 
got approved.

At UCI campus, also 4 CSPA applicants have not received the approval notice.

A friend of mine who is currently working for a company in Los Angeles. 
only 2 of 8 CSPA applicants there haven't been approved. Two days ago 
one of them called the INS Western Center. It took about 40 mins. to
get through. She (CSPA applicant) wanted to find out why her application 
has not been approved and what's going on there in the Western Center. A 
INS officer gave her the following simple, but very discouraging answer: 
"We have suspended the processing of PR application under CSPA. The 
processing will not be resumed until September of next year (1994)...." 
which means she has to wait until next Sept.

Personaly I believe this msg. it true. I haven't got my approval notice 
yet so far. As far as I know, 4 CSPA applicants at our campus submitted 
their application on 6/30 or 7/1/93. none of them mailed their application 
later than 7/1.

CND's latest report on CSPA mentioned that all 42,000 leftover had been 
used up by 9/30/93, so most CSPA applicants will receive their approval 
notices in next few days if they haven't received yet. This news release 
is totally different from what the INS officer said at INS Western Center.

Statistically there are about 20-25% CSPA applicants haven't been approved. 
They are worry about what will happen to them. There is no channel which 
they can use to contact INS western center to figure out what's going on 
there. They feel they should do something about their pending cases, but
they don't know what should be done.

Do you have any idea and comments on the issue reported in this mail. Do 
you have any solutions about this problem. I am looking forward to hearing 
from you since you always can provide lots of options or alternatives. Thank 
you for your attention.