Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!daemon From: chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) Newsgroups: ut.chinese Subject: Nov. 29 (II), News Digest Message-ID: <8911292028.AA21757@vlsi.waterloo.edu> Date: 29 Nov 89 15:28:04 GMT Sender: Distribution: ut Lines: 188 Approved: nobody@csri.toronto.edu Original-To: china-distribution@cs.toronto.edu | +---------I __L__ ___- i \ ------I +----+----+ | ___\_\_ | \./ | | -----+- | | | | | __ \/ | --+-- |--- | |---| | I----+----I | I__J/\ | __|__ | | | |---| | | | _____ \ | /| \ | | | L__-| | I I---------J / J \/ | | V | _/ * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Nov. 29 (II), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines 1) Suggestions by CSSA Chairman of University of Manitoba ............ 52 2) Letter from Chairman of FCSSC ..................................... 43 3) A Suggestion from University of Alberta ........................... 28 4) Chinese students having trouble gaining entry to the USA from Australia ......................................... 39 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Suggestions by CSSA Chairman of University of Manitoba Editor's Note: This message is originally circulated in the bul- letin board at University of Manitoba. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello! I post a message from our members regarding the recent situation on Vistor's Visa Issuing in Beijing. Cssa will write letters to appeal Canadian Govrernment for help. People who face the same problem please write letters too. Meanwhile I will ask FCSSC if they could do something. To avoid any unexpected trouble or unwanted by-products, I sug- gest you JUST LET THEM KNOW YOUR DIFFICULTIES AND ASK FOR HELP in your appeal letter. What I want to remind you is, it hasn't to be the RESPONSIBILITY OF CANADIAN GOVERNMENT to deal with the appli- cation of student's spouse in a SPECIAL rather than a NORMAL way. Anyway do not complain but ask for help. In addition to the Minister of External Affairs, you may use Hot Line and write to other officers as well. Following are the tel number and some addresses I collected to be your references. * Hot Line: 9:00am-5:00pm M-F 1-800-267-1299 * Hon.Lloyd Axworthy, PC,MP Constituency Office 922 Grosvenor Avenue Winnipeg Man R3M 0N4 * Bill Blaikie MP Winnipeg-Transcona NDP External Affirs Critic House Of Commons K1A 0A6 * E.E Allen Director Asia and Pacific Programs Division Department of External Affairs Ottawa Ont K1A 0G2 * Dorothy Dobbie MP 2-1080 Waverley St Winnipeg Manitoba R3T 5S4 Good Luck to everyone! CSSA at University of Manitoba -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Letter from Chairman of FCSSC -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To all students concerning 'family reunion' issue (Nov.28, 1989) Hello friends: Many of you may have been shocked by a series of rejections of application for visit visa by student's spouse. We share the con- cerns and anxiety with you. The FCSSC executives have been dis- cussing this issue for days to find a way to deal with this prob- lem. We will certainly do our best to help. A special committee will soon be appointed. Our Vice President in External Oliver Yuan and Vice President in Internal Dennis Lu already began to contact Immigration, CCNC, CBIE, etc. and will report you more information and any development. The 'urgent appeal' initiated by a group of Chinese students in my Univ.-- Univ. of Manitoba -- contains some thought of FCSSC executives board. The strategies we suggested are: 1) Don't blame, to ask a favor, to win sympathy. 2) do it STEP BY STEP, first collect cases, FCSSC will write an inquiry to Immigration Minister to get some explanation, then FCSSC, all local CSSA's and individuals call and write to Immigration, MP, etc.. Since our fellow students are so concerned and emotional on the situa- tion, I would like to say frankly that probably we'd better not push too hard, and not disclose all information to public at the very beginning --- it might not win sympathy but only lose our "bargaining cards" (actually we don't have many 'cards' in hand :-) ). Of course the above is only my personal view. We very much understand your feeling when hearing your wives' application being or would be rejected. But Please still be patient. Some problem can be worked out quickly but some not. it is not all in our control. It would probably be better if we could deal the problem quietly and 'diplomatically'. FCSSC volunteers will be always with you and try our best to help. Please join your effort with FCSSC and local CSSA's. Let's work together. Yours truly, Xiaohua Qu at U. of Manitoba -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. A Suggestion from University of Alberta -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Friends: Before taking any actions, it seems that more information on Canadian Immigiration Law should be gethered. According to a friend of mine, there is such regulation (or law maybe) requiring that the spouse of a PR applicant should not visit Canada until the immigration status of this applicant is finalised. In the PR application interview, my friend was informed of this regulation by the immigration officer, after being asked whether her husband wanted to visit her in near future. However, when another person called two months later the local immigration center, the person who answered the phone nei- ther confirmed nor denied the existeness of such regulation. So, it is better to check out its legal stand before taking any furture actions. Good luck, folks. shuang@alberta.UUCP U of Alberta, Edm, AB, T6G 2H1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Chinese students having trouble gaining entry to the USA from Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Friends, I would like to post this article in China News Digest. I have a Chinese student in my department who wants to go to the US to do his PhD in Computer Science. His application has already been accepted by the a University in the US. He was also successful in his application for a scholarship. Last week he went to Syd- ney and obtained a letter of permission form the Chinese consu- late. The letter of permission basically allowed him to go to the US to study. To sum up, he has qualified for every require- ments to gain entry to the US, yet the US consulate in Sydney refuse to give him a Student Visa. This is a very ridiculous situation considering that the US congress has passed a bill to make it easier for Chinese students to gain permanent resident status in the US. Furthermore, I would like ask the Chinese students in the US to lobby the US government for a change in attitude towards Chinese students who want to study in the US from other parts of the world. Finally, there is an even more ridiculous story, one of the stu- dent in my department has submitted a paper to a conference in the US. The paper was accepted but the US consulate again refused to grant a Visa for the student to present the paper. The US consulate staff reasoned that this particular student did not show any evidence that he will leave the US once the confer- ence is finished. This is totally ridiculous since the student already has a scholarship to continue his study in Australia. Thank you for your attention Anthony from munnari!batserver.cs.uq.oz.au!anthony@uunet.UU.NET (Anthony Lee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================== News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Nov 29 15:24:02 EST 1989 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com