Subject: LADs News from INS Buffalo: no visa number now

From: HONGZHI LIU <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 09:45:29 CST

Hi, there,
	There is INS cable from Washington on March 16, 1994. Effective 
 from March 17, 1994, no visa number is available to LAD for this year.
	My wife got interview and approval on March 17, surely she did
 not got visa number, no stamped. She was told that she has to wait till
 October of 94.
	Good luck everybody!

	H. LIU

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From: "Q.Zhu from NYU at Fermilab (708)840-8383" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 10:33:31 CST

> not got visa number, no stamped. She was told that she has to wait till

This was 'predicted' by the survey result on the distribution of priority
date for LADs, which I sent out yesterday. Does anybody else have similar
experience at different INS office? Does anybody have the exactly content
of the 'INS cable from Washington on March 16, 1994'?

Accoding to the 'LAD status list' done by "[email-masked]", 
there are about 20 INS offices who had issued approval notices. Assuming 
2500 visa are used for LADs in 1994, each office should issue about 125 visa. 
Considering this is done within 21 days(am I right? They only started to 
issue visa on March 1, 1994), it's very likely that not all visa of EB3 for 
1994 are used on LADs.  The fact that processing July 1, 1993 LADs is only 
started on March 1, 1994 might be more convincing. It sounds like the waiting 
period for most people will be quite long --- it is possible that even the 
EB3 quota of 1995 fisical year will not be enough for the people with 
July 1, 1993 priority date. (Recall the survey result: about 6000 LADs have
July 1, 1993 priority date.)

We should try to collect more accurate information.

Best regards,
Qinag Zhu

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From: "Q.Zhu from NYU at Fermilab (708)840-8383" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 13:07:42 CST

> not got visa number, no stamped. She was told that she has to wait till

Unfortunately, I got a confirmation from Chicago INS office from some 
indirect sources. 

Best regards,
Qiang Zhu

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From: [email-masked] (Luping Sun)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 15:20:30 CST

> of the 'INS cable from Washington on March 16, 1994'?

A friend of mine went to INS at Cincinatti for the LAD interview on March 18.
He was told that all the visa numbers were used up. He will have to wait at
least till early April, as the officer asid. But the officer didn't tell him
when the visa number is going to be available. Someone else got her passport
stamped right after her LAD interview from the same office one week before...

Luping