Chapter 86 Who came out of Versailles!
In this life plus the rest of his life, Zhang Wei, who has been called Zhang Wei for decades, has no problem.
Why is it that when I get to the U.S. Embassy, my visa is refused even if I call myself "Zhang Wei"? Did the person named "Zhang Wei" offend you Americans?
Did Zhang Wei dig up Washington’s ancestral grave?
Or is it Zhang Wei who lifted Lincoln’s Tianling Cap?
Or maybe it was Zhang Wei who broke Roosevelt's leg?
Why should someone named Zhang Wei be refused a visa!
Zhang Wei stared at the visa officer with a livid face, obviously determined not to give up.
The long-faced visa officer said calmly: "According to information from our US Immigration Service, many Chinese go to the United States every year and choose to stay in the United States after their visas expire.
Among them, only 0.79% of those who hold tourist visas overstay their visas, while those who hold student or scholar visas, the number of overstayers is as high as 3.3%
The most numerous Chinese people with overdue visas are people named Zhang Wei. In the past six months alone, dozens of people named Zhang Wei continued to stay in the United States after their visas expired.
In addition, the millions of stowaways we catch at the border every year also include a large number of Chinese citizens. According to our statistics, these Chinese stowaways named Zhang Wei are also Make up the majority!
Based on these figures, there is a high probability that a person named Zhang Wei will illegally stay in the United States after his visa expires. The US Immigration Service has expressed concern about this.
And your name is Zhang Wei. This name is on the immigration bureau’s focus list, so I can’t give you a visa to the United States! "
"That's because there are the most people named Zhang Wei in China, so there are the most people named Zhang Wei who are illegally staying in the United States! Just like there are more people named James, there are several James in the NBA. This is the same reason. "Zhang Wei opened his mouth and explained.
The long-faced visa officer spread his hands: "You can explain to the US Immigration Bureau that I am just a visa officer, not a policy maker. I am only responsible for acting in accordance with the requirements of the Immigration Bureau!"
Zhang Wei also knows , it was useless to complain to a visa officer, so he asked: "It says you can reapply, what do I need to do?"
"My personal suggestion is to change my name!" Big face I think I am very humorous.
Zhang Wei wanted to slap him twice and turn his long face into a round one!
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Being denied a visa to the United States because of a bad name sounds like nonsense, but in reality there are real cases.
Don’t say your real name doesn’t sound good. Even if your online name doesn’t sound good, you will still be denied a visa by the United States.
The former famous e-sports player Sun Yifeng, the one who said "there are springs even for mentally retarded people" and the one who defeated Yui Aragaki and was elected as the wife champion of Station A, was once refused a visa by the United States because of his name.
Sun Yifeng’s ID in the game is F91. When he was going to the United States to play in a competition and applied for a U.S. visa, Americans thought, did the ID F91 have anything to do with 911?
Is this guy a terrorist? Will there be suicide bombings in the United States? Even though Brother Sun was representing his country in competitions at the time, he was still simply refused a visa!
Some people say that whether you can get a visa to the United States depends solely on the mood of the visa officer. There is some truth to this. As long as the visa officer doesn't want to give you a pass, he can always find all kinds of strange reasons.
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On the bus back to Qingda University, everyone else was smiling, but Zhang Wei looked depressed.
Of all the people in Tsinghua University who applied for a visa to the United States, he was the only one who failed.
Ye Haotian comforted softly: "It is difficult to get a US visa. It is normal to fail the first time. If you go back and supplement some materials and apply again, you should be able to pass."
"Okay, don't comfort me. If you fail to get a visa to the United States the first time, it will be even harder in the future. I guess I won't be able to go to the United States this time." Zhang Wei said.
"When we go back, let the school think of a solution. Our Tsingta University has cooperated with many American universities, so we will definitely be able to find a solution." Ye Haotian then comforted.
"Yes, classmate Zhang Wei, don't worry, I will report to Principal Gu after I go back, and there will definitely be a solution!" The teacher in charge of foreign affairs next to him also said.
Zhang Wei thought for a while and asked: "I am definitely not the only one who has been denied visas for Tsinghua University over the years, right? How were those who were denied visas before handled." "There were indeed some cases before. If a student is denied a visa, we will ask the American university we cooperate with to issue a special invitation letter to the individual, and then apply again with the invitation letter," the foreign affairs teacher replied.
"Which universities can I contact?"
"The University of Michigan, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, Purdue University, Georgia Tech, etc."
"Nothing. Ah!" Zhang Wei said with a frown.
The foreign affairs teacher suddenly felt a little confused in his heart!
No cards? Do you call these schools without reputation? The world rankings of these schools are dozens or even hundreds higher than Tsinghua University!
You said it so easily without saying anything, do you know how hard it is for me? To ask them to send invitations, I have to get up at three in the morning and make phone calls to beg them! You may not be able to ask for it!
However, the foreign affairs teacher also knew that the Zhang Wei in front of him was the treasure in Principal Gu's eyes, so he could only continue kindly: "It doesn't matter even if you can't go to the United States. Besides the United States, there are other options.
We have cooperative relationships with universities in the UK, Germany, France, Russia, and Japan, such as the University of Manchester in the UK, the Technical University of Berlin in Germany, Moscow State University in Russia, and the University of Tokyo in Japan. You can go and communicate!”
The subtext of the foreign affairs teacher is that since I have been refused a visa, it is difficult to get a US visa, so it is better to consider other countries.
Zhang Wei then asked: "As for the invitation letter, does it mean that the greater the reputation of the university, the better the effect?"
"That's right." The foreign affairs teacher nodded.
“I’ll take care of the invitation letter myself!” Zhang Wei said.
“Where can you get an invitation letter?” The foreign affairs teacher then added: “Let me confirm it first so that I can arrange follow-up work.”
“Let’s get one from Stanford University first. Let’s try the invitation!” Zhang Wei said with a relaxed look.
"Where? Stanford University?" The foreign affairs teacher suddenly looked shocked.
Stanford University ranks among the top three in the United States all year round. Compared with the universities I mentioned, it is indeed more prestigious. As far as science and engineering majors are concerned, Stanford is several floors higher! It is estimated that only MIT can compete with it.
Stanford University and Tsinghua University also have some cooperation projects, but this is only in name.
If the gap between the two is not big, it can be called cooperation. But if the gap is too big, there is no basis for cooperation at all.
In 2004, the gap between Stanford and Tsinghua University was too big. Stanford was too lazy to pay attention to you, so the foreign affairs teacher from Stanford University really didn’t come to the invitation letter for exchange students.
However, according to Zhang Wei, the invitation letter from Stanford University seemed to come easily.
Zhang Wei then asked: "Teacher, with an invitation letter from Stanford University, the visa should be passed, right?"
"Well, it may not be stable! If there is an American citizen willing to vouch for you, it should be I can pass it," the foreign affairs teacher said hesitantly.
Who can say that such a thing as a US visa will be stable!
"U.S. citizen guarantee? The more status you have, the more convincing the guarantee will be? I'll find an American Nobel Prize winner to write a guarantee letter for me." Zhang Wei said.
“What is it? A Nobel Prize winner? Can you find this thing just by looking for it?”
Whose Versailles is this?
Thank you all for taking time out of your busy schedule to support us! Regarding the matter of Brother Sun being denied a US visa, I remember Huang Xudong or someone mentioned it in a live broadcast a few years ago, but I don’t know if it’s true or not. If it's fake, just think of it as a joke! Anyway, Brother Sun has many jokes, and this one is not missing.
(End of this chapter)