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发帖数: 1945 | 1 A top Chinese brain scientist wonders how he ended up on the U.S. visa
blacklist
By Dennis NormileJul. 18, 2018 , 12:10 PM
SHANGHAI, CHINA—Frustrated with a string of unexplained U.S. visa
denials, a top Chinese brain scientist has decided to go public, copying
numerous journalists on a 17 July email to officials at the U.S. Embassy in
Beijing pleading his case.
"Most embassies try to make more friends for their countries; the U.S.
embassy is not afraid of offending people and making enemies," says Rao
Yi, a high-profile neuroscientist at Peking University in Beijing who
studied and worked in the United States for 22 years. His difficulty
obtaining a visa is particularly ironic, given that he has been invited to
attend a workshop by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), a
government agency based in Alexandria, Virginia.
Rao, 56, earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience in 1991 from University of
California, San Francisco (UCSF), and did a postdoc at Harvard University.
He was on the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri for 10
years and later joined Northwestern University's Feinberg School of
Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, where he rose to be a full professor. Along
the way, he acquired U.S. citizenship. He returned to China in 2007 to
become dean of Peking University's School of Life Sciences. He later gave up
his U.S. citizenship.
Rao says he was still regularly traveling to the United States until he was
denied a visa to travel to San Francisco for a reunion with his UCSF lab
mates in 2016. Since then, he has failed to get visas to join a conference
at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in Cambridge, to attend a memorial service for U.S. banker
David Rockefeller, and even to visit his daughter, a U.S. citizen.
In addition to his position at Peking University, he is now director of the
Chinese Institute for Brain Research in Beijing. NSF invited him to a
workshop in Washington, D.C., on 23 and 24 July that aims to develop a
Global Inventory of Brain Initiatives to facilitate international
coordination.
Rao says he had an interview at the U.S. embassy on Monday, during which he
was asked to provide an updated CV and travel schedule. He says he has not
made flight reservations because his recent experiences leave him doubtful
about getting a visa. He says he is puzzled about the visa denials and
cannot think of anything he might have done to get blacklisted. He did
appear on Chinese TV criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump after the 2016
election, but his first visa rejection predated the election. He says he was
once told that the decision was made in Washington, D.C., but was given no
further details.
The U.S. government began applying tougher restrictions on some Chinese
graduate students last month, but the new policy does not apply to senior
scientists and does not include the neurosciences.
The U.S. embassy in Beijing does not comment on individual visa cases, a
spokesperson wrote in an email to ScienceInsider. "I certainly hope
that the U.S. will not go down in history as the country which arbitrarily
blocks international cooperation in the natural sciences," Rao wrote in
his email plea to embassy officials. | i*****9
发帖数: 698 | 2 对于放弃美国绿卡或公民的，再要获得美国签证基本无望。 | z****g
发帖数: 3509 | 3 瞎扯
【在 i*****9 的大作中提到】
: 对于放弃美国绿卡或公民的，再要获得美国签证基本无望。
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发帖数: 4386 | 4 11公本来最近想来米国找能教授，给个老年博士后职位，无赖也被拒签了。 | f**y
发帖数: 1 | 5 在白门楼吕布被擎曹操问刘备咋整？
刘备就说了一句话，君不见董卓丁原之祸否
所以对这种三姓家奴就应该往死里整 |
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