************************************************************** IFCSS Headquarters News Release No. 5082 November 30, 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 IFCSS Keeps Track of CSPA Implementation ======================================== In the past two days, the HQ contacted various offices in the State Department and INS HQ to follow up with the events of CSPA implementation. The following are some initial results for your reference: 1. As of today the Visa Number Control Division of the State Department has issued a total of 43,277 visa numbers to the CSPA applicants. 2. The visa numbers requested by the four centers on the State Department for CSPA dropped to less than twenty each day. 3. The INS HQ officers are still working on a formal response to the IFCSS HQ enquiry about DED concerns, the obvious slow-down in processing, and other related issues of the CSPA remainders. 4. The INS HQ officers informed us that their formal response will be ready early next week. We will make it available to you as soon as we receive it. ********************************************************************* * IFCSS Headquarters Office * *-------------------------------------------------------------------* * President: Lin Changsheng Vice President: Shi Heping * * Exec. Director: Liu Xiaozhu Chief of Staff: Huang Songyun * *-------------------------------------------------------------------* * PBS-L is IFCSS's news distribution list for individuals. To sign * * on or off from IFCSS E-mail mailing 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 * *********************************************************************