申诉提要

　　[申请者概况]

　　在山东农业大学工作六七年，硕士学位已经结束但还没有拿到硕士证书全奖去美国读博士，但是对方学校的规定是如果没有硕士学位就必须注册入硕士课程。

　　[拒签理由]

　　工资太低，所以不会回国；所以有移民倾向；已经是硕士没有必要再去读另外一个硕士；已经工作六七年，没有必要再去读书。

　　[申诉重点]

　　承认工资低，但以其同时的回国经历证明低工资绝对不是阻碍中国知识分子回国的必然因素，我申请的确实是博士学位，作为硕士录取仅仅是因为申请时还没有拿到硕士学位，签证官显然忽略了这个清清楚楚写在申请中的事实。既然是签证官的过失，就应该改正不管工作多少年，不要拒绝我追求进步的权利。一个工作了七年的人依然有权追求更高的学术进步，拓宽自己的人生之路。

　　申诉原文

　　Dear Visa Officer , My application for a student visa to study in the United States was refused twice be-cause of the following reasons ,according to the visa officers who interviewed me： 1. My wage is low so I would not return to China.2. I already have a Master's degree so I need not go to the United States for anotherMaster's.3. I have worked for seven years at the Shandong Agricultural University (SAu)With all due respect to the visa officers who interviewed and rejected me ,I would makethe following argument as why the refusal to my application is not reasonable and notfair. l. As a scientist at a Chinese educational institute ,my monthly salary IS low ,and verylow. But the low income is definitely not the reason why I want to study in yourcountry. Compare to US salary standard ,Chinese senior professors in this country'sleading universities are unbelievably poor (professors at Shandong Agriculture Uni-versity has an average $ I00US per month). But low wage has never deterred somany Chinese scholars from coming back to China after they finish their designedstudies in the US. Take Dr. Qian Yongqiang a colleague of mine at SAU as an ex-ample,he left China with a salary of 60RMB in 1982 ,studied at Maryland State U-niversity for six years , and returned to his school-my school the Shandong Agricul-tural University in 1988. The salary waited for him in the year of 1988 was no morethan 120RMB while he could have made more than that amount in merely one daywashing dishes in US! He didn't stay in your country just because of his expectedlow salary in China. Now he is a dean of one of the colleges at the Shandong Agri-cultural University. Denying my visa on this ground is an insult to my conscientiousas a proud Chinese intellectual. 2. The second reason to refuse me can't be more unreasonable. I quote Dr. Mike Has-san , Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at the Maryland State Univer-sity in the United States here for you as why I was admitted to their Master's pro-gram at the Maryland State University : "You have been admitted to the MS program because when you applied and admit-ted you did not have the MS degree which is required for admission. for Ph. D. here.I intended to have you as a doctoral student not masters, your assistantship is at thelevel of a doctoral student ,not Master's. "Any one reading this passage would agree that I entered this Master's program isjust because of a strict academic standard at the Maryland State University when re-cruiting graduate students, a standard I am very proud of. My only intention is topursue a Ph. D. degree at the MSU, so is the intention for Dr. Hassan who will bemy supervisor at the MSU. They would not be so irresponsible to waste Americantax payer's money to sponsor a student who has no academic merit. Refusing myvisa on this ground (I have a Master's degree, so I do not need another Master's de-gree) is not only a grand ignorance to my true intention but also a suggestion thatDr. Hassan ,a well-known professor in his area in the United States ,was irresponsi-ble in awarding me such a prestigious financial assistance. 3. During the last seven years ,I had been teaching at the Shandong Agricultural Uni-versity for four years and then was sent by my University to do a Master's programat Tsinghua University ,China's top engineering school. It is very clear that I did notapply for a US school during the last three years is because of my on-going TsinghuaMaster's program, which I cherish very much. It is a perfect time for me to realizemy dream for a Ph. D. degree from a US university after my Master's degree ,whichwas awarded to me on July I0th , 1996. You can refuse people's visa application formany reasons, but refusing my visa on this third reason is a denial tn eaehindividual's right to design their own future. Seven year's working and studying inChina should not be a legitimate reason to reject my visa application as so many peo-ple over 30 are coming to America to pursue their academic dreams all the time.I respectfully request that you review my case on the basis of the above three convincingreasons as why I deserve a student visa to study in your country. I am confident thatyou will give me a favorable consideration alter reading my reasonable and fair argu-ments. Thank you very much.

　　申诉翻译

　　尊敬的签证官：我申请去美国读书的学生签证被签证官拒绝了两次，以下是面试我的那位签证官给我的理由：1．我的工资太低所以我不会回中国2．我已经有了一个硕士学位，所以我没有必要去美国再拿另外一个硕士3．我已经在山东农业大学工作了七年了怀着对于面试我并拒签我的签证官的全部尊敬，我想在这里作一个申诉，说明为什么拒绝我的签证是不合理且不公平的。1．作为中国教育机构里的一名科学家，我的工资确实低，相当低。但是低工资绝对不是我要去美国读书的理由。和美国的工资标准相比，中国一流大学里的高级教授们收入之低是令人难以置信的（山东农业大学的教授平均工资是一百美元）。但是对于那么多从美国学成归来的中国学者面前，低工资绝对不是阻碍他们回国的因素。拿我的同事钱永强博士为例，他在1982年离开中国时工资只有60人民币。在美国尼肯大学苦读六年之后，他于1988年从美国回到了他的学校一也是我的学校--中国山东农业大学。在1988年的时候，国内等待他的工资只有120元人民币，虽然他可以在美国洗一天碗就能挣出这么多钱来2他没有因为国内铁定的低工资而赖在美国不走。目前他是山东农大一个专业学院的院长。以低工资不回来作为拒签我的理由，是对于我作为中国知识分子良知的侮辱（Insult）。

　　2．第二个拒签的理由就更加不合理。我确实有一个硕士学位，我在申请入学的时候确实想去美国直接读博士。但是，在马里兰大学录取我并授予我奖学金的时候，我还没有拿到硕士学位。请允许我引用穆萨克·哈桑教授的话，他是录取我的美国ABC州立大学土木工程系的教授以及我未来的博士生导师，以告诉你这个大学录取我的真正原因：“你被录取为硕士研究生的原因是，当你申请并得到录取之时你还没有硕士学位，而这是我们这里录取博士生的一个条件。我有意把你作为一个博士生对待，而不是硕士生，你的助教工资也是博士生的级别，而不是硕士生的水平”。我去马里兰大学唯一的意图就是读博士，这也是哈桑教授我的博士生导师的唯一目的。他们是不会如此不负责任地浪费美国纳税人的钱去资助一个没有学术资格的人。签证官应该--他的决定对于我的学术和专业生涯是有如此巨大的影响--应该知道这样一个我已经清清楚楚写在申请中的重要事实。以这个理由拒签我（我有一个硕士学位了所以没有必要再去美国读另外一个相同的学位）是因为签证官忽略了我的申请实况而犯的一个简单的错误，因此应该得到改正。

　　3．过去的七年，我在山东农业大学做了四年教师，然后又被学校送到清华大学攻读硕士学位，这是中国最著名的工程学府。我在过去三年中没有申请美国的学校只是因为我在清华的这个很有价值的学位课程还没有结束。我已经于1996年7月10日获得了我的硕士学位，现在对于我是一个完美的时刻去美国实现我的博士的梦想。你们固然可以因各种理由拒绝人们的签证，但是以这第三个理由来拒签我却是对于一个人设计他的人生道路的权利的拒绝。有多少人年过三十还去美国追求他们的学术梦想，在中国工作和学习了七年不是一个站得住脚（legitimate）的拒签理由。我充满敬意地请求你们重新考虑我的申请，根据以上的三个令人信服的为何我应该得到去你们国家学习的签证的理由。我充满信心在读完我上面合理而公平的申辩后，你们会给我一个顺利的考虑。

　　非常感谢。

　　忠诚的