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Preference 5 - brothers and sisters (whether married or unmarried) of US citizens together with spouses and any urmarried children under 21. Petitions filed before 22 September 1973 are current and this category is likely to remain badly backed up.
Freference 6 skilled employment: applicants from China.
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Petitions filed before
8 December 1977 are current.
Preference 7 - conditional entry. This does not apply to the present problems since such people have to have left China and in theory are
'refugees'. About 100 cases a month are processed here by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Non-preference unavailable since 1975 and no visa-promise letters are being issued.
Outside the various preference quotas are spousta
of US citizens, minor unmarried children of US citizens and parents of us citizens. For all of these,applications are treated immediately and no vait for numbers under any quota is necessary. The backlog on the various categories varys from month to month since the mumbers available depends on petitions being filed and followed up throughout the world. However, the Us Embassy in Paking would be informed of any changes.
5.
If you were to issue some transit visas we think the best solution would be only to deal with those outside the preference categorias or who hold first preference visa petitions. We would suggest that you could explain to the Chinese that since all other categories are backed up, you would see no point in dealing with them since they would have such a long wait in Hong Kong. As a fallback position it would be reasonable to tell the Chinese in conjunction with the U3 Embassy of the current dates for petitions under the different categories and to say that transit visas could be issued to those kolding petitions which were filed sufficiently long ago to be current: but that you would not have the capacity to sort out a sass of applications, most of whom would not have current dates. It would perhaps be best for applicants to be asked first to write to the US Embassy to check whether their petitions are now current. In fact, the standard procedure is, I understand, for the US Labassy to reply to applicants whose petitions are not current telling them that they will be told when numbers become available.
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On our part, we would be content for you to give a 3 mánth transit visa (itself a considerable concession) to valid visampromise letter holders whose petitions are current. Should there be any delay here, ve vould be able to extend the visa. In doing this we would, of course, be taking the risk that those who for any reason fail to satisfy final procedural requirements,
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