From: [email-masked] (Cheng Cheng)
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 94 12:47:19 CDT

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Hello. I came across the following on the internet. It is about a 
immigration reform bill. There is a great back-log on the visa numbers
available for new PR's family members who are abroad (in India or China
for instance). This campain is geared to support a pilot program for
a reform bill. Not just the Indians, Chinese may suffer from the same 
problem because the cut-off date of available visa for Family-Based Priority
2 category (for new PR's family members in China) is Aug. 1991, lagging back
three years! Please help as much as you can. Thank you!
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     REMINDER !!!!!!
     Deadline for submitting all signatures is August 11.
     rgds
     George

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Hello PSR members!!
Here it is. The start of our signature campaign in support of the PILOT PROGRAM.
Let's make it a personal goal to obtain more signatures than we did for the last
campaign. 
I will be contacting the volunteers separately with further instructions. 
Thanks and GOOD LUCK.
rgds
George  
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Subject: Final cover letter
Author:  Sunondo Ghosh <[email-masked]> at smtp 
Date:    7/26/94 9:06 AM

Action-India & PSR: Call For Action
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   11 U.S. Senators have proposed a pilot program based on the provisions
of the Spousal and Child Immigration Bill which seeks to allow temporary 
visits to U.S. by spouses and children of permanent resident aliens. This 
is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of the 
measures proposed by the bill, and could be a major step toward getting 
greater support for the bill.
     
   Action-India and PSR are conducting a joint signature campaign to
mobilize support for the pilot program. The letter attached below is 
being sent to all U.S. Senators and Representatives. Action-India and 
PSR welcome you and your relatives, friends and neighbors in the United 
States to be signatories to this letter.
     
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To be a signatory to the letter attached below:
     
   Please send e-mail to [email-masked]
     
   Mention the subject as "Pilot Program"
     
   Send your e-mail on or before Thursday, the 11th August 94.
     
   The e-mail message should have the particulars of each signatory in
the following 3-line format:
     
Full Name, E-Mail Address (if any), Home Telephone Number 
Street Address, Apt.#, City, State ZipCode
Occupation, Name of Organization/Institution
     
   Please get as many signatories from your family/neighborhood as
you can; arrange one three-line response after another, with one blank 
line in between.
     
   The body of your e-mail should not have anything besides these 3 lines
per signatory.
     
-- Sunondo Ghosh
   Chief Coordinator, Action-India
   [email-masked]  (412) 621-0825
     
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Dear Honorable .....,
     
   Action-India is a worldwide, non-profit, voluntary organization of
people of Indian origin residing outside India, that conveys the views 
of the Indian community to lawmakers and leaders of representative 
governments. Professionals for Spouse Reunification (PSR) is a voluntary 
organization comprising immigrant engineers, doctors, educators, 
scientists, and other professionals.
     
   The Spousal and Child Immigration Bill (S.618 & H.R.3182) seeks to
provide for temporary visits to U.S. by spouses and children of permanent 
resident aliens; the bill will provide temporary relief and unite the 
nuclear family of permanent residents that is now forced to endure a long 
and painful separation of three to five years due to the backlog. Senator 
Donald Riegle Jr., along with 10 other Senators, has written to the 
Secretary of State suggesting the implementation of a temporary pilot 
program based on the provisions of this bill. We request you to support 
this "Proposal for a Pilot Program for Temporary Admission of Backlogged 
Spouses and Children of Permanent Resident Aliens" and also convey to the 
State Department our views in this regard.
     
   The bill seeks to redress the inequity that exists in denying visitor
visas to spouses and children of permanent residents, simply because they 
have already filed category 2A visa petitions; the bill would help put an 
end to the needless separation of families (it takes upto 4 years for 
processing category 2A visa petition). The proposed pilot program would 
test the effectiveness and practicality of the principles outlined in the 
bill.
     
   It is important to note that neither the bill nor the pilot program
will add even one permanent resident to the total number of immigrants 
admitted to the U.S. each year. The pilot program, which is for 18 
months, is subject to review every 6 months; the Congress has in the 
past, often adopted immigration policies after testing them out through 
pilot programs.
     
   We therefore request you to call the Secretary of State Mr. Warren
Christopher and convey your support for this pilot program, and thereby 
help subject the provisions of the Spousal and Child Immigration Bill to 
a careful scrutiny. We welcome any communication with Action-India and 
PSR, which may kindly be directed to the Chief Coordinator of 
Action-India, Mr. Sunondo Ghosh.
     
Sincerely,
for ACTION-INDIA & PSR

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 Permanent Residents and USA citizen can mail their contributions to
 PSR, 478 W. Hamilton Ave, SUite 187, Cambell, CA 95008

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