范例13.2 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.