************************************************************** IFCSS Headquarters News Release No.5006 July 11, 1993 ************************************************************** Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars (IFCSS) 733 15th Street, N.W., Suite 440, Washington, D.C.20005 Tel. (202)347-0017 Fax: (202)347-0018 Email: ifcss@wam.umd.edu Update on Service Center Operations On may 9th, Friday, Shi Heping, newly-elected vice president of IFCSS, talked over the phone with Ms. Sharen Nichols at INS HQ. According to Ms. Nichols, up to that moment INS had received about 33,000 applications nation-wide. To us, this news is too good to be true. Therefore, we will contact INS again to confirm that no counting error has been made. Ms. Nichols said that in general the applications are very well prepared, but commented that the overwhelming amount of express mail had considerably slowed the process. Ms. Nichols also said that many applicants will be receiving receipts for their applications next week. It is the hope of IFCSS HQ that in future our students will pay more attention to what the HQ says and act as a group. We had emphasized in our notice that ONLY regular mail should be used and that express mail would cause delay, but many still used Federal Express. Such irresponsible behavior will seriously undermine the credibility of our organization. Up to our last meeting with INS, chief INS officer were extremely impressed with the effective organization of IFCSS, but this time we lost a point. We cannot afford to have this kind of error repeated, so please help IFCSS help yourselves. ********************************************************************* * IFCSS Headquarters Office * *-------------------------------------------------------------------* * President: Lin Changsheng Vice President: Shi Heping * *-------------------------------------------------------------------* * PBS-L is IFCSS's news distribution list for individuals. To sign * * on or off from the list, please send email to listserv@ifcss.org * * leave the subject line open and put in the mail body: * * (For signing on) sub PBS-L last name first name * * (For signing off) unsub PBS-L last name first name * * For more information about IFCSS, write to ifcss-info@ifcss.org * *********************************************************************