jshen@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Jun Shen) (01/26/91)
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===================== Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP) =====================
January 24, 1991
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1. Hong Kong Alliance: Action on Wong Dan's Trial.......................10
2. CND Q&A Column on Visa/Job/Legal Matters
(Attachment: The Procedure for Students to Apply for PRC Exit Permit
During Their Temporary Home Visit).....................175
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1. Hong Kong Alliance: Action on Wong Dan's Trial
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>From: Hong Kong Alliance <hkall@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU> Jan 23 02:49:32 1991
Hong Kong Alliance
in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movement of China
To all pro-democracy organisations:
We just heard that pro-democracy student activist Wong Dan is being put on
trial today. We are deeply concerned with this development and will be
staging a rally outside the New China News Agency tonight (Wed 01-23-1991)
and tomorrow night to express our indignation. We hope overseas organisations
would also express your concern by taking appropriate action in your own way.
Please also let us know about your action by e-mail at swmstudy@hkucc.hku.hk
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2. CND Q&A Column on Visa/Job/Legal Matters
(Attachment: The Procedure for Students to Apply for PRC Exit Permit
During Their Temporary Home Visit)
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From: CND Q&A Editor Bo Xiong <cnd-ep@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 91
NOTE: All discussions on this column are for readers' information only, one
should consult his/her lawyer or proper professionals before handling
his/her own visa/job/legal matters.
I. PRC Educational Counsel Answered CND Q&A Editor's
Questions on the Student Leaving PRC after Home Visit
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Since CND Opened the Q&A Column, many readers have been asking the questions
about the US Advance Parole and PRC Exit Permit, as well as the distinct PRC
two-Year valid passport, in order to obtain first-hand information for our
readers, CND Q&A editor telephoned educational counseller Mr. Zhang Jiwen of
PRC Consulate General in Chicago on January 3, 1991. The following is an
excerpts from the telephone conversation (not proofread by Mr. Zhang):
X: Hello, Mr. Zhang, this is Bo Xiong in Chicago, you probably still remember
me :-)
Z: Sure, Xiao XIONG, I remember your name, but probably not your face.
X: I just read the "Liu2 Xue2 Tong1 Xun4" (LXTX) No.1 published by Chicago
Consulate on December 22, 1990 and have some questions about PRC Exit
Permit and US Advance Parole.
Z: Go ahead, I'll try to answer your questions.
X: The LXTX carried the procedures to apply for PRC Exit Permit for both
government-dispatched and self-sponsored students when they visit home
(see attached to this issue of Q&A), it says that for self-sponsored
students, they need both PASSPORT and VALID FOREIGN VISA and the Letter
of Verification for Self-Sponsored Student issued by consulate to apply for
PRC Exit Permit through their original passport issuance office. This is
contradicting what People's daily told us in Summer 1989 and 1990 (see CND
Q&A No.4), which one is correct?
As you know, without the PRC Exit Permit, PRC police will not allow a
student to enter foreign embassy for visa application in PRC, how can one
get a visa without an exit permit?
Z: People's Daily is correct, LXTX is also correct. The VALID FOREIGN VISA
in LXTX means US INS form IAP-66/I-20 for J-1/F-1 students, or other
materials per People's daily that prove one's student status in the US,
not necessarily a real visa stamp on your passport :-)
X: If a student changed his/her status from J-1 to F-1, will you issue the
Letter of Verification for Self-Sponsored Student?
Z: Generally speaking, yes. However, we'll handle this case by case since
they may bear different passport.
X: Many government-dispatched students bear a two-year valid passport which
is good only once for exit/entry to PRC, as it's reported, those passports
may be renewed. The question is, will they allow to go out with that
passport aftter they visit home?
Z: The bearers of those two-year passport are mostly visiting scholars and
signed contracts with their domestic unit. If they do not go back on
schedule, they will break contract. However, we can still extend their
passport for two years. But they'd better NOT go back now because we
have no control of the domestic rules and cannot let them go out again.
X: Those two-year passports were specially designed and there is no designated
sheet for renewal on it, technically, how will you renew it?
Z: We can add an additional sheet to the passport for renewal, that's all
we can do overseas.
X: Is there any peoblem for H-1er to go out again after visiting home?
Z: If you are on H-1 status and have no US greencard, we'll treat you as
J-1/F-1 student, i.e., if you present a letter from your employer in
the US to verify your employment and visa status, we'll issue you a
Letter of Verification for STUDENT STATUS so that you'll be treated
exactly the same as STUDENT when you apply for exit permit inside China.
X: Foreign student advisors at Cornell University and SUNY Binghamton reported
that PRC does not recongnize US Advance Parole as a valid US entry visa and
some students got trouble when leaving PRC, can you verify this? (See CND
Q&A No.19 and CND-US Visa Package December 7, 1990)
Z: Of course we accept US advance parole as valid US visa, if the other
country lets students in, we'll let them out.
X: A H-1 Chinese at SUNY Binghamton call New York Consulate and the answer
was NO ...
Z: I don't know about that, as far as I know, there is no problem for a
student to leave PRC with an US Advance Parole. Now that the people like
GE Xun could leave PRC, I don't think there is any problem for other
students. I haven't so far heard of any students having trouble ...
X: Come on! I met GE Xun in a Xmas Eve Party in Chicago and talked to him
about this in detail. I believe he was somehow specially treated when he
left PRC. Remember that Houston Consulate refused to issue him a letter?
Z: Really? How?
X: His sister applied for his PRC Exit Permit through Beijing City Public
Security Bereau and got it in three hours, also she got flight ticket for
him at the same time from CAAC. As per PRC Citizen Exit/Entry Code, one
MUST apply for PRC Exit Permit IN PERSON, and according to the practice of
other students, it usually takes two or three days for PSB to process their
application for exit permit. GE Xun didn't show his US Advance Parole at
Shanghai Hong-Qiao International Airport until he was routinely asked for
showing US entry visa at the border police check point.
GE Xun bears a PRC passport for private affair and has been on F-1 visa
since he came to US. He tried to apply for a visa when he was in Beijing
last December, but the Chinese guards did not let him get in because he
hadn't got his PRC exit permit then.
Z: Ahhh, I don't know the whole story .... By the way, did GE Xun talk the
situation in China to you?
X: Certainly he did, but I don't think you like to hear it :-)
Z: I have been away from home for long time and would like to hear anything
about China.
X: ......, finally, GE Xun told us that the family members of those political
prisoners are suffering greatly from the imprisonment of their beloved ones
and their miserable life ...
Z: Miserable ???
X: I don't think you need me to explain anymore, do you? As a PRCer, you
must have known how is one's life if he/she lost his/her job and was forced
to move out of his/her apartment when his/her beloved one is jailed!
......
P.S. If you would like to ask counsl ZHANG Jiwen any questuons, you may
contact him at (312)346-5581.
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Attachment: The Procedure for Students to Apply for PRC Exit Permit
During Their Temporary Home Visit
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Source: Liu Xue Tong Xun published by PRC Chicago Consulate, 12/22/90
I. For Government-dispatched students and scholars
All personnel in question (including state-dispatched and unit-dispatched)
is required to carry a Certification of Home-Visiting Student issued by
PRC consulate and apply PRC Exit Permit DIRECTLY through the following
domestic agencies:
1) Beijing: Zhong1 Guo2 Liu2 Xue2 Fu2 Wu4 Zhong1 Xin1
Address: Beijing Hai3 Dian4 Qu1 Xue2 Yuan4 Lu4 #1
(Inside Beijing Institute of Language)
Postal area code: 100083
Telephone: 2017531 ext. 503
Telex: 222438 CSCSE CN
2) Shanghai: Chu1 Guo2 Ren2 Yuan2 Ji2 Xun4 Bu4
Shanghai Institute of Foreign Language
Address: Shanghai Ti3 Yu4 Hui4 Lu4 #119
Postal area code: 20081
Telephone: 664900
Telex: 33505 SISU CN
3) Guangzhou: Chu1 Guo2 Ren2 Yuan2 Ji2 Xun4 Bu4
Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Language
Address: Guangzhou Bei3 Jiao1 Huang2 Po2 Dong4
Postal area code: 510421
Telephone: 662303
II. For self-sponsored students
The personnel in question only needs their passport and valid foreign
visa, and the Letter of Verification for Self-Sponsored Student issued
by consulate to apply for PRC Exit Permit through their original
passport issuance office.
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