Subject: Mi Mi fired the third round of petition letters!

From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 93 20:22:35 CDT

Dear Netters,

Mi Mi Sr. has fired third round petition letter with 530 
signatures collected from the INTERNET between September 1 and 
September 25. The incoming signatures are trickled down to one 
signature per a week. It is estimated that, if no more signatures 
come, this is the last round of petition letter Mi Mi Sr. would 
send out. Mi Mi Sr. is glad that he is relieved from this self-
assumed duty. During our six-week old petition drive, we received   
total of 1564 signatures from August 23 to September 25. For this 
round of petition letters, four letters are delivered via US 
Postal Office to 

	Madam Rita A.Boie
	Senior Immigration Examier
	Adjudication Branch
	Immigration & Naturalization Services
	425 I Street NW, room 5307
	Washington, DC 20536
	FAX: (202)514-0198

	White House:
	The Honorable William Clinton
	The White House
	1600 Pennsyvania Avenue, N.W.
	Washington DC 20500
	FAX: (202) 456-2461

	Mr. Eric Schwartz
	Director of Refugees & Humanitarian Affairs
	National Security Council
	The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
	Washington D.C. 20506

	Gerry Tinker
	Director of Stuffs
	Senate Sub-Committee on Immigration and Refugees
	Dirkson Senate Office Building
	Washington D. C. 20510
	202-224-5182 (Fax)

and two faxes are delivered via MCI to 

	Attorney General
	The Honorable Madam Janet Reno
	U.S. Attorney General
	Fax: (202) 514-4371

	Ms. Philis Coven
	Assistant to Attorney General
	Fax:(202)-514-0238

According to the report on World Journal, the CSPA Regulation 
will be finalized by the end of this year. While the final Rule 
will not change the fact that most CSPA principals, either 
documented or undocumented who entered the United States prior to 
April 11, 1990, have gotten or will have their little piece of 
green light in the U. S., however, the rule will certainly 
reshape the fate of many Chinese nationals who came after that 
particular date. If, we failed to push the LADs community into 
that unlimited world-wide pool, then the anticipated long waiting 
lines in China's EB-3 and FB-2 categories will surely prevent 
many late comers' American dream from coming true. Think of this. 

If you want to support our petition drive, you are welcomed to 
send your signatures, or your collection of signatures, in the form

Mr/Ms/Miss.Name,Number and
Street,City,State,ZipCode,phone#(***)-***-****
  Co-signed Spouse, Mr/Ms/Miss.Name,
  Co-signed Child,  Mr/Ms/Miss.Name,
  Co-signed Child,  Mr/Ms/Miss.Name, ....

to [email-masked]

Or to the above addresses, via ordinary Postal mail or Fax.

Remember, the lads and LC problem are ours, no one should care
more than ouselves. Please act quickly before it is too late!

Mi Mi Sr.

LADS-Net Committee

Enclosed is the letter we Lads-Net have sent to the US officials.

Mr. Eric Schwartz
Director of Refugees & Humanitarian Affairs
National Security Council
The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington D.C. 20506

RE: Chinese Student Protection Act (CSPA)

Dear Mr. Eric Schwartz,

	We, a group of concerned individuals who have signed our 
names and addresses below, 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 the 
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 or FB-2 during this August 
and September. Since the annual China quota in EB-3 or FB-2 is 
about 2500, these LADs only will cause a backlog in China's quota 
for at least four years. 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. What is worse, 
according to the INS Cable on August 13, those undocumented 
Chinese nationals who came before April 11, 1990 and have since 
obtained an advance parole to re-enter the U.S. are now allowed 
to apply under CSPA. While this new decision reflects the 
humanitarian and protective spirit embedded in the Executive 
Order 12711, these additional applicants with their LADs actually 
face even greater difficulties, because most of their LADs are 
queued after the existing pool of LADs whose principals entered 
the United States legally. These people, then, will be subject to 
an even longer period of family separation. In addition, the 
unpredictable number of LADs of undocumented Chinese nationals 
will jam the normal China EB-3 and FB-2 categories for even more 
years. The traditional values of family ties, family unity and 
humanity, cherished so dearly by the American people, are also 
deeply rooted in the Chinese culture and in every Chinese family. 
The anticipated long separation due to visa quota allocation will 
surely bring agony and misery to those families, in contradiction 
to the humanitarian spirit embedded in the INA, Executive order 
12711 and CSPA.

	(2) For dependents still remaining in China, the situation 
is even more bleak. These individuals, most of whom are minor 
children, as our survey of our LADs community shows, would be 
required to wait in China until visa numbers are available. They 
could potentially be separated from their parents for many years. 
The separation will not only deprive these minor children of 
their much needed parental care, but also strain the precious 
family ties in those families. In addition, many of the 
dependents, both in the U.S. and in China, who are now considered 
children, might reach the age of 21 prior to visa availability. 
This would disqualify them for visa issuance.

	To solve these problems, we would like to suggest the 
following:

	(1) Re-allocate the LADs into the world quota. Since the 
CSPA principals have been allocated into the world-wide quota 
leftovers for fiscal year 1993, it is reasonable to assume that 
there might be similar world-wide quota leftovers for the next 
few years. Instead of wasting these leftover world-wide quotas 
while letting the LADs block China's regular EB-3 and EB-2 
channels, re-allocating LADs to the world quota would solve the 
backlog problem, thus benefiting many Chinese families at the 
expense of no-one.

	(2) Establish a blanket family unity program to include all 
late-arriving dependents. This program should mirror the benefits 
of Executive Order 12711 in (a) giving favorable considerations 
to the dependents in China who request non-immigrant visas to 
visit their family in the U.S., so that their visa application 
will not be simply rejected due to the "immigration intent"; (b) 
presuming the non-immigrant status of LADs for adjustment 
purposes, so as to eliminate the DED problem faced by an 
estimated 50% of the LAD population; (c) providing liberal 
advance paroles; (d) providing employment authorization for the 
dependents while their applications are being processed; and (e) 
allowing children who are 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 application for such 
adjustment. This family unity program should solve problems in 
the case by case voluntary departure program and shorten family 
separation resulting from non-immigrant visa denial.

	Thank you for your attention. We are most anxiously looking 
forward to hearing from you.

	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.

Sincerely Yours,