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发信人: speed (如风·有你陪别无所求), 信区: AdvancedEdu
标  题: letter to senator(转载)
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sat Oct 25 04:01:54 1997)

本文转自family@ifcss.org
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Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their
hard work. Moreover, if two lie down together, they also will
certainly get warm, but how can just one keep warm? So a man will
leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife, and
they must become one flesh forever.

However, for us, hundreds of Chinese graduates and scholars, the
family life has been becoming a remote, poignant dream suspending in
our minds every minute since we boarded the land of America.

Since April 1997 in Beijing, more and more Chinese family members are
being denied for F-2 visas by American Embassy. Comparing to the same
cases in the history, it has been getting extremely difficult to get
an F-2 visa now in Beijing. Even though our spouses are holding the
same legal documents (I-20 forms) as those of other Chinese students
who came here earlier before 1997, they are denied once and once again
for almost the same two reasons: immigration intention, not enough
financial income or proofs.

We are not trying to question the consular officers working in Beijing
Embassy, since we do not know too much of American Immigration laws or
international student policies. We just want to know how to prove that
we have neither immigration intention nor lack of financial income.

Since the first refusal of F-2 visas, we have been trying to offer
additional convincing proofs including the new I-20 forms, monthly
bank statements of private saving, letter from advisor, chairman of
department, immigration expert in school, or even letter from some
senators. But none of these can make the consular officer pay any more
attention, some even did not have a check of these new materials. They
just gave our spouses the consistent replies and refusals.

Like all the other international students, we came to this country to
pursue our Doctor or Master degrees during 3-5 years learning life, we
cherish this great opportunity to learn the most advanced technique.
In class we are confident to compete with classmates from other
countries equally, and we never follow behind them. Nevertheless, when
we are out of class and when other international students from Europe
share the family happiness with their spouses, we can only suffer the
agony of family separation for months or even longer. As a part of the
most excellent students and scholars in China, we have had many rosy
and ambitious dreams, but none of us has ever had a dream like weaning
our beloved from tens of thousands of miles away, while we can do
nothing but praying and sighing. We had been facing many difficulties
optimistically when we were together with our beloved, but today we
hardly know what we can do any more for our halves except invalid
soothing through the ph!

We have been lucky to be among the most excellent students from
elementary schools till universities. We all came from the most famous
universities in China, and our credits and research experience are
both excellent, otherwise our American advisors would not offer us
research or teaching work as a method to pay us. This proves we are
independent and competent in both research and life, further prove the
I-20 forms and other materials we offer to the American Embassy are
believable. We were all around or over the age of 25 before we came to
America, and most of us had been working in China for several years,
so it is not strange for us to have thousands dollars of private
savings.

In China, there is one old idiom: Set up your family then expand your
business. Our Chinese ancestors taught us to always put family the
first position thousands of years ago. Deeply influenced by this
tradition, we take more responsibilities for our families. No matter
how busy we were in China, we would never forget to take care of our
beloved and share with her (him) every achievement we attained. Before
we came here, they had been so happy to support our research and
study, but now when we call them, what we hear is more silence than
crying which make us more depressed. What we did is wrong to suffer
this extra pain besides the pressure from study and research? Is it
because we got married? Is it because we want to get an American
Doctor or Master degree? Is it because we are just from China? When we
come back home from lab after midnight everyday, how much we wish to
see the warmness of our beloved, but what we can see is only the
endless darkness.

Some consular officers say we are thronging into this great country to
consume over the resources in this land. We do not know if we do not
consume food, how can we keep alive to study and do research here, we
also do not understand how much energy we will consume during the 3-5
years learning. If we keep on consuming, then shall our spouses be
separated from us for years to save some extra consuming? If this
logic exist, then shall all the cancer ... be left alone at home
instead of giving them more love, since they are sooner to pass away?

Some consular officers say we can reunify our family if we go back to
China to visit our spouses on vacations. We do not know if there is
any country in the world having such a living style that one couple
would stay together for only tens of days each year in order to keep
them love each other more deeply. We know in China, the wife can visit
a criminal in jail more often if she applies. But how many times our
spouses have been applying just for the reason of taking care of our
lives here? Do we have to suffer the denial of one after one time
before we finish our studying here? Otherwise we have to give up our
degree if we can not cleave our beloved from our mind? Should we pay
so expensive a price just in order to learn some more from one
university in this great free country?

We want to emphasize that we are not asking for any excessive
conditions or favors from any group. We are just seeking for a
reasonable explanation from the state agency, we need a clear reply
about the F-2 visa issues. If we get one formal reply from the
government that our spouses definitely can not come over to see us,
then we would not spend any more time staying here, we will leave this
country instantly without any more .... Even though, we are still
faithful that the most excellent scientists in China will come out
among us 10-20 years later. We will remember forever what we
experienced in America.

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