Subject: Happy New Year!

From: [email-masked] (lin huang)
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 94 23:49:23 CST

Hi, all of our dear lads-l netters! As the E. O. 12711 finally 
expired last night, we are now entering a new era. We are now no 
longer fearing of, or, awaiting for our fates to be decided. We 
are being able to dream, to plan, to build our future instead. 
What a difference it is! Last year this time, everyone was 
anxious about the fate of the CSPA. Now, the majority of CSPAers 
are holding their real plastic cards, and enjoying the first New 
Year Celebration in this new, adopted homeland. 

Still, it is not the end of the task of this net. Our lads 
problems are far away from being solved. As Mi Mi Jr. is settling 
down again in her new home and new school, many of our lads are 
organized to start the new task, hoping to speed up the process 
of the lads application. Well, the spirit of this net is truly 
voluntarism. This net was organized, operated, and maintained by 
all the volunteers from all over the country. It is delightful to 
see that the task is aimed at and carried on by new volunteers, 
or, fresh blood. Everyone of us contribute a little bit of our 
energy, and all of us together than can make a truly big 
difference. 

The new task, as Mi Mi Sr. sees it, is much more difficult to 
achieve. First of all, there is no such a term as lad in INS' 
vocabulary. LADs is created , used by the netters of this lads-l 
only. To INS, there is only CSPAers and ordinary PR cases. One of 
our original purposes is, to put lads into CSPA itself. After the 
tedious long petition drive, we failed to achieve that goal. 
Then, all of our lads are categorized as ordinary PR cases. It is 
almost impossible to separated lads cases from all the other 
applications around the world in all the local INS offices even 
INS HQ decides to do so, which, is quite negative as we had 
learnt from the letter from the INS HQ replying to our lads net 
Committee's petition letter. Various local offices have different 
paces to handle the PR applications, there is national quota cap 
on the EB-3 and FB-2 applications. Since there are so many 
restrict conditions, we can not expect our lads problem be solved 
as what we wanted. However, this net will serve the purpose for 
the information exchange, as long as there is an interest and 
system support. 

Finally, Mi Mi Sr. salutes to the recent effort by some netters 
to compile a national review of the lads application progress. 
This impressive list does provide us a clear picture of how our 
netter's applications are being handled. Please keep on good 
working, and God bless us lad all.

Mi Mi Sr., in New York City