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From: Information <info@mail.uyghurinfo.com>/Washington, Nov. 21 (UIA)
In the school year of
2000, 514,723 foreign students have been enrolled in the US higher
learning institutions and 54,446 of them are from P. R. China, outnumbering
foreign students in any given country, a recent report released by a US research
center said.
"The China Journal", a Chinese language newspaper published in the
United States, said the statistics was released by US International Education
Research
Center.
According to the statistics, Asian students occupy 54% of all foreign students
currently studying in US while Chinese students outnumbered the Japanese,
topping the list of foreign students. According to the
US Embassy in Beijing website, the embassy issues more than 8,000 visas annually
to
Chinese student visa applicants. However, only a few, some years even none,
Uyghurs out of some 20-30 student visa applicants are given visas to study in
US, according to the Tangri-Tagh Overseas Scholars & Students Association
(TOSSA), a nonprofit Uyghur organization promoting education in the
US.
A faxed statement from the US State Department said, "There are no special
provisions for Uyghur student visa applicants. If any applicant cannot
demonstrate that his or her intent, at the time they are
interviewed for a visa, is to depart from the US at the end of their studies,
then under law a consular officer cannot issue a visa". Nevertheless, every
year a great number of Chinese students who have "proved" their intent
to depart the United States after graduation never return to
China. The United States
considers the Uyghurs and the Tibetans "Chinese". Therefore, the
chances of the
Uyghur and Tibetan students getting a visa to study
in US are next to
none. Tughluk
Abdurazak, the communications director of TOSSA, said, "The number of
Uyghurs who are given visas by the US Embassy in Beijing is on the decrease
every year. As far as I know, only two Uyghur students are given visas
this
year."
Bhuchung Tsering, the director of International
Campaign for Tibet in Washington, DC, said, "The US Embassy in
Beijing treats the Tibetans as
"Chinese".
There is no different treatment in terms of Tibetans applying for student visa.
Most Tibetans come to the US from the Indian
sub-continent."
"Only a dozen Tibetans was granted visa since P.
R.
China was founded", Tsering
said.
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