Subject: LADS

From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 16:40:56 CDT

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   From: [email-masked] (Donglin Mi)
   Subject: Re: LADS
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   --- You wrote:
   The IFCSS does not seem to concern about LADS issue.  We should organize
   ourselv
    to push IFCSS.  There is  something that IFCSS can do.  The lobby of IFCSS
   will
   be very helpful if we can push them to work on this.  If we can not use the
   worl
   d-wide remaining quota, as we did before, at least we can ask all the LADS to
   be
   granted temperary green cards.  That is, we ask each of us to be granted even
   if
   there is no enough quota now, then we can wait in line for formal green card.
   Even if it takes several years under this condition, it would not matter.
   --- end of quoted material ---

   I was talking to Shi Heping about the Lads issue when he visited our campus
   during the Mid-autumn Festival. He said that the IFCSS headquarter was not
   able to do anything about the Lads because the IFCSS Council had ordered the
   headquarter to stop doing anything about the Lads. He said that they had to
   obey the decision of the Council according to the constitution. There are
   nine of sixteen members of the Council are LCs. Before we ask the IFCSS to do
   something about the Lads, we have to ask the majority of the Council to
   support our suggestion.

   BTW, would MI MI try to communicate with the members of the IFCSS Council?

Mi Mi Sr. has been trying to do the aforementioned communication with IFCSS HQ
and IFCSS Council started from July 26, not realizing the aforementioned 
situation "the IFCSS Council had ordered the headquarter to stop doing 
anything about the Lads" in later July. By August 12, without any replying 
heard from IFCSS whatsoever regarding lads-net, one of our committee members
intercepted a message from the net saying the IFCSS Council had invited a lc-l
leader to participate their teleconference. It was not until that incident had
we learnt the sad decision about the order of abandoning our lads issue. We
lads-net committee have been doing our best to launch our own campaign to 
reverse the situation, but the damage had been done already. We had 
communicated with various IFCSS officials regarding the real situation. Lads 
issue is not an one wins and the other loses situation. The lads are 
guaranteed to get their green cards, no matter what happens to them. No body
can change the INA to deny those LADs (or, more precisely, those dependents
of the US PERMANENT RESIDENTS) green cards. As a matter of fact, the speedy
process of those dependents of the US PERMANENT RESIDENTS will benefit LC
community, to the contrary of the common believe accepted by the majority
of LC community. If, all of those dependents of the US PERMANENT RESIDENTS
have to use China's limited pool to adjust their status, then many LC who
have to use EB-3 and/or FB-2 categories will find long long waiting lines 
ahead of them, and unfortunately, the majority of the LC will surely use that
two categories to adjust their status. But it had been very difficult to 
convice those guys who make decisions inside or outside, pro-IFCSS or against
IFCSS. It is quite to our absolute dissappointment that IFCSS Council has made 
such a decision. Neither lads nor LCs win. Both are losers. The biggest losers
are LC themselves. Well, just like a modern Chiese saying, "we pay the 
tuition", that is all. Not realizing what had happened to them, the LC are 
paying their tuition dues dearly, and still claiming they had won a great
victory over the IFCSS! Well, as Chairman Mao says, "You will not know the
tast of the pear without eating it!" Let them enjoy their pears, Mi Mi Sr.
has done enough communications to convey the message to the LC community, but,
who knows how many believed him? 

BTW, it is never to late to learn something, to do something. United, with
or without our LC brothers and sisters, we CAN achieve something. 

Mi Mi Sr.

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