Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA29904; Mon, 10 Aug 92 23:47:23 -0400 Received: from kentvm.kent.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11602; Mon, 10 Aug 92 23:45:59 EDT Message-Id: <9208110345.AA11602@Athena.MIT.EDU> Received: from KENTVM.BITNET by Kentvm.Kent.edu (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.2MX) with BSMTP id 9345; Mon, 10 Aug 92 23:44:35 EDT Received: from KENTVM.BITNET by KENTVM.BITNET (Mailer R2.08) with BSMTP id 7376; Mon, 10 Aug 92 23:44:30 EDT Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 03:26:18 -0400 Reply-To: CND-US%LIBRARY.UTA.EDU@Kentvm.Kent.edu Sender: "China News Digest (US News)" From: cnd-us%djohn-sun.kent.edu@Kentvm.Kent.edu Subject: CND-US, August 10, 1992 Comments: To: china-nd@Kentvm.Kent.edu To: Multiple recipients of list CHINA-ND +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ (US Regional) Monday, August 10, 1992 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CND-US, normally 1 or 2 issues a week, is a supplement to CND-Global and | | has basically no overlap with the daily news. CND-US provides in-depth | | information concerning Chinese students/scholars in the United States. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ [CND's note: Due to network problem, readers have been unable to reach CND at the address cnd-xxxxxx@djohn-sun.kent.edu since August 2, please use CND-XXXX@LIBRARY.UTA.EDU to reach CND for the time being, where "XXXX" = EDITOR or US or CM ] Table of Contents # of Lines ============================================================================ 1. IFCSS/CCSA Report on Immigration Bill Lobbying ....................... 45 2. IFCSS Plans Coordination System for Protection Bill Lobbying ......... 80 3. Survey: Participation of Schools on Lobbying the Protection Bill ..... 56 4. Soccer Tournaments Among Chinese Students ............................ 16 5. A-B-C-D of Nonimmigrant Visas ....................................... 160 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. IFCSS/CCSA Report on Immigration Bill Lobbying ....................... 45 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Zhao Haiqing, Date: Sunday, August 9, 1992 Last week, we have conducted an extensive damage-control lobbying work on the Capitol Hill. Several members at the Judiciary Committee level have expressed their complaints to Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and us. Their dismay are primarily regarding the phone calls from students insensitive to the Haitian issue. What we have done last week are the following: (1) Meeting with Nancy Pelosi. I met with her twice last week discussing the current situation on S1216. I explained to her to my best that some of the phone calls from students were not intentional if they hurt some members' feelings on the Haitian issue. We also discussed what would be the best strategy to push the bill in light of the current dynamics. (2) Meeting with Sen. Slade Gorton, the author of S1216. During the meeting I explained the situation in the House and alerted him of any possible problems if the bill comes to the Senate. (3) Meetings with several key congressional staffs at the Judiciary Committee. The meetings were primarily for fact-finding and explanations for damage-control. >From the above meetings, we concluded that the earlier massive phone calls from the grass root level to the Judiciary Committee with insensitive messages regarding the Haitian issue have been very damaging. As a result of this we are unable to get the bill out of the rules Committee with a closed rule before recess by next Wed. However, we are exploring other options at this point. We will keep you informed of any progress we may make. What we need to do now: (1) Lobbying the House members in general, particularly the Leadership in the House. The message ought to be very simple: Please pass/support S1216 as soon as possible. It is a bill to protect Chinese students and it is a bill to protect human rights in China. (2) You can help by making donations to the students affairs committee which has been working on this bill continuously for more than three years. Recently, the lobbying team in D.C. has been concentrating on work at the Capitol Hill, resolving our internal disputes, etc. We have not been able to receive enough funds to cover our expenses and to conduct other much needed activities. Please make your check payable to: CCSA/Immigration Fund, and send to: CCSA, P.O.Box 65307, Washington,D.C. 20035-5307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. IFCSS Plans Coordination System for Protection Bill Lobbying ......... 80 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: IFCSS HQ, Source: IFCSS HQ NR 4002, August 8, 1992 As the 1992 Chinese Student Protection Bill (S.1216) is near the final stages of legislation, we should put the ongoing nation-wide campaign supporting this legislation into a full-swing. At this critical stage, it is very important to have a well-organized and efficient nation-wide coordination system. While the Student Affairs Committee of IFCSS, led by Mr. Zhao Haiqing, is concentrating on pushing the bill through the Congress, the IFCSS HQ shoulders the responsibility to organize grassroots support and coordinate supporting activities nation-wide. The coordination system has the following objectives: 1. MOBILIZATION: We want to make sure that supporting activities will take place in every state. 2. COVERAGE: To make sure that every Congressmen get our message. 3. INFORMATION: To make sure that we receive and send out information which is accurate, update and unequivocal. 4. UNITY: To make sure that we have one voice. 5. SPEEDY ACTION: To make sure that instructions for actions coming out of D.C. (HQ, CCSA, or the Attorneys) will bring about immediate responses from all over the country. 6. DISCIPLINE: When directives such as "Open Fire," "Hold Your Fire," "Call this committee," etc. are issued, they should reach every corner of the CSS communities. We plan to divide the coordination system into three levels: A: The School Level 1). Each school should have at least one contact person who will keep eyes on the development, receive instructions from the HQ, and keep his fellow students/scholars informed. 2). A temporary office should be set-up in which people can come to get the most recent instructions and to exchange information. 3). Each school should form a committee or group to share the heavy burden of work, such as making phone calls, contacting people, writing letters, preparing background information, etc. B: State Level 1). There should be at least one coordinator for each state to coordinate activities within his/her state. 2). The Coordinator should form a supporting group to assist him/her. 3). The Coordinator should: -- Contact schools in the state. -- mobilize schools which have been inactive. -- provide addresses, phone/fax numbers. -- find out positions of Representatives from the state. -- report to HQ about the progress or problems. C: National Level See previous announcements on the Emergency Teleconference. To reach these goals, we need the involvement and cooperation of the general CSS community. People who are interested in being the coordinator in your state, please send your name, state, school, phone/fax number to . Mr. Chen Zheng-ping of Case Western Reserve University has been conducting a survey on the school participation. The HQ thank Mr. Chen for doing this valuable work and appeal schools to respond to his call. His address is . Financial contributions to the nation-wide coordination efforts are also encouraged. Please make your checks payable to "IFCSS CSS-Protection Account." The address is: IFCSS CSS-Protection Account, 733 15th Street, N.W., Suite 440, Washington D.C. CCSA, the legislative arm of IFCSS, is also accepting donations to cover lobby-related expenses. Please send your checks to: CCSA, P.O. Box 65307, Washington D.C. 20035-5307. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Survey: Participation of Schools on Lobbying the Protection Bill ..... 56 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: zxc4@po.CWRU.Edu (Zheng-Ping Chen) Date: Saturday, August 8 1992 Dear Fellow Chinese Students and Scholars: Before the House Rule Committee cast their vote, we would like to provide the lobby activists in Capitol Hill a statistic of the number of Schools actually involved in the lobby effort. So far only 28 schools from 19 states have responded to our survey, while we had expected a far greater number of responses from all around. In all earnesty we hope to receive replies from other schools not yet on the list we've published -- even a brief one would help. Please send your reply to this survey to: . As of 1:00am August 8, a total of 28 schools and institutions from 19 states have answered our survey: Colorado: University of Colorado at Boulder; Florida: Florida State University, University of Florida; Indiana: Purdue University; Iowa: Iowa State University; Kansas: Kansas State University, Kansas University; Maine: University of Maine; Maryland: University of Maryland; Michigan: University of Michigan, Wayne State University at Detroit; Minnesota: University of Minnesota; New York: State University of New York at Buffalo; Ohio: Case Western Reserve University; Oregon: Oregon State University; Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania; South Carolina: Medical University of South Carolina; Tennessee: Oak Ridge National Lab; Texas: A&M, UT at Dallas, Baylor Medical Center in Houston, Texas Tech. University, UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, University of Texas at Austin; Utah: University of Utah; Virginia: Virginia Tech. in Virginia; Wisconsin: Marquette University, University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Soccer Tournaments Among Chinese Students ............................ 16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Shangyou Zhang, Date: Thursday, August 6, 1992 Two soccer tournaments have been played this year in the midwest and east region. Chinese soccer fans from 5 universities met at University of Illinoi at Urbana-Champaign (Organized by ZHOU Guangming) on July 11-12 weekend. University of Michigan won the championship. Purdue University took the Silver. On July 25 weekend, WANG Zhong organized a 6 team tournament at Yale University. Chicago/Iowa-state unified team defeated the host, Yale/UConn united team to take away the Meidong Cup. A third tournament will be hosted by YU Xiangdong and ZHANG Jie at Penn State University on August 15-16. Purdue, Cleveland SU, Delaware and Penn State have registered for this Wuming CUP tournament. To organize inter-collegiate games, soccer_net@cauchy.math.udel.edu is set up for communication. It contains active Chinese soccer players fromm 22 universities currently. For further information, please "finger soccer_net@cauchy.math.udel.edu". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. A-B-C-D of Nonimmigrant Visas ....................................... 160 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kalara Sunny, Source: Soc.Culture.China, July 29, 1992 This is something I put to gether in early January 1991. I am sure, all of us at one time or other, have poured this alphabet soup of F-1, H-1 and J-1 in our cups. Here is a quick taste of alphabet soup of nonimmigrant visa. After a short discription of when a particular visa is applicable, I have denoted the level of difficulty that one might encounter in applying under that category. (Assuming that all the relevant papers are in order relative difficulty of 0 means 'automatic' approval and 10 means very very difficult {in my humble opinion}) A : Diplomatic visa A-1 Ambassadors, consular officials and other high ranking officials of diplomatic mission (and their immidiate family) A-2 Less important officials (this visa is based on reciprocity) A-3 Attendent, cooks, service personels and alike Level of difficulty A-1 0 A-2 1 A-3 1 Must be renewed every year B : Temporariy visitor's visa B-1 For temporary bussiness visitors, consultants also for training of employees of a foreign company B-2 For pleasure travel, temp. visitors , immidiate family of B-1 Level of difficulty B-1 5 B-2 5 for people aged 55+ 6 for people 40+ to 55 7 for others 9 for unmarried woman C : Transit Visa C-1 Continuous transit in Us C-2 Transit to UN C-3 Transit to and from foreign consulate Level of difficulty C-1 varies; with proper documents 3 C-2 2 C-3 3 Maximum stay 29 days; No visa change is allowed D : Crewman Airline and ship crew Levle of difficulty D 3 E : Treaty related E-1 For companies which are continuing substantial trade between US and their own country (Formal treaty necessary) E-2 For aliens that have substantial sum invested and come to direct operations (Formal treaty between two states necessary) India does not have a trade treaty with US. Indian citizens are ineligible for E visa F : Students F-1 Students at accredited University F-2 Spouse/children of F-1 Level of difficulty Varies by year and where you apply average F-1 5 F-2 6 G : Emplyoee of international organizations G-1 High ranking officials of international organization G-2 Other representative of international organization G-3 Aliens who are authorized for G-1 or G-2 but whose government has not been recognized by US. G-4 Officer and employee of international organization G-5 attendents, servants of international organization Level of difficulty G-1 0 G-2 2 G-3 ? G-4 4 G-4 4 H : Aliens of distinguished abilities, trainees H-1 :Temporary worker of distinguished abilities H-2 :Temporary services for which eligible persons can not be found in US H-3 : Trainee H-4 : Immidiate family of H-1/2/3 Level of difficulty H-1 4 H-2 5 H-3 4 (physicians are excluded from getting this visa) H-4 3 New classification of H-1B also exists. for nurses (?) ::This info needs H-1A for farm workers (?) ::to be corrected. Maximum stay 5 yrs +1 year for extraordinary circumstances All bets are off after october 1st 1992. I : Foreign press I-1 Foreign press, radio, tv and other information media I-2 spouse/children of I-1 Level of difficulty ?? (Unknown) J : Exchange visitors J-1 Student, scholar, teacher etc J-2 immidiate family of J-1 Level of difficulty J-1 5 J-2 4 Maximum time depends on whether it is student/scholar/teacher J-1 Varies from duration of study +1 year to max of 3 years for teachers And don't forget the 2yrs residency requirment. K : Fiance of american citizen K-1 Fiance of american citizen K-2 Children of K-1 Must marry with in 90 days. This classification is being phased out. L : Intercompany transfer L-1 Multinational co. transfer L-2 family of L-1 There is also 'Blanket L-1'(L-1B) for very large co. Level of difficulty Varies L-1 5 for small firm L-1 2 for large firms L-1 0 for very large co. M: Students M-1 For students in vocational schools as opposed to traditional acedemic inst. M-2 family of M-1 Level of difficulty ?? N : NATO visa (?) N-1to N-5 classification exists FOLLOWING are the new classifications introduced within the last year. O : Individual of extraordinary ability O-1 Extraordinary ability in science, arts atheletics O-2 indivudals entering for the sole purpose of assisting O-1 (coaches etc) O-3 family of O-1/2 H-1 requires a job, O-1 doesn't. International fame and peer group consultation is required. Level of difficulty ???? P : Athletes and entertainer P-1 : International level athlete P-2 : Exchange athletes and entertainers (recidency requirment of 3 mo.) P-3 : Athletes and entertainer of culturally unique programme. P-4 : family of P-1/2/3 Q : International culture programme Q-1 For participation of designated international culture programme Q-2 family of Q-1 Limited to 15 months of stay R : Religious occupations Religious occupation has been eliminated from H-1 classification. New R classification requires two years of membership in the religious organization prior to application. 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