What is immigration tendency and how to avoid it?

Immigration tendency is a major problem for Chinese visa applicants. Different from the "presumption of innocence" in American courts, American immigration law adopts the principle of "presumption of guilt". Visa officers always assume that you have a tendency to immigrate to the United States first. Assuming that all applicants for non-immigrant visas really want to stay in the United States, then applicants should try their best to convince visa officers that they will return to China immediately after graduation and prove to them that you have no such inclination. Visa officers examine whether the applicant has an immigration tendency, mainly through several aspects. The first is whether the applicant's purpose of going abroad is clear, and the second is whether the applicant's plan to return to China is real and concrete, and whether the applicant's education investment has enough return rate for the applicants who study abroad at their own expense. Discussed in detail below. The first is whether the purpose of going abroad is clear.

This question includes the applicant's knowledge of the major, why he wants to go to the United States instead of studying in China, and what he wants to study in the United States. Many students like to talk about studying in the United States, because the United States has a good educational environment and strong majors. Studying in America can improve their ability. Such an answer can't highlight the applicant's personality and is empty and powerless. It will only make the visa officer think that the applicant has no clear plan for the future, thus maximizing the possibility of immigrants' motivation to settle in the United States.

For example, a computer major graduated from college and suddenly found himself in love with the media and wanted to study in the United States. GRE scored easily and was admitted to American universities. However, he was still refused a visa. The meaning of visa officer is very clear. The gap between IT and media is too big, and there is no clear plan for their future study and career, so they obviously tend to emigrate. Therefore, in order to convince the visa officer that you have a clear study purpose and plan, your answer must be combined with your actual situation, the characteristics and development status of your major, and at the same time, explain the reasons for going abroad to the visa officer in combination with the future application prospects, so as to eliminate the doubts of the visa officer about you.

In view of the visa officer's investigation in this respect, there are three parts in the design of the visa core content that can give a favorable response to the visa officer's judgment of immigration tendency. These aspects are: the knowledge gained through professional study, the problems encountered in studying in China and the advantages gained by studying in the United States.

For example, an applicant for a geographic information system goes to the United States to study for a master's degree. The visa officer asked him about his professional understanding and knowledge. Geographic information system is an interdisciplinary field, which mainly deals with geographic data and can be used for map positioning. Then the applicant listed practical examples. For example, Google and Yahoo maps, as long as you enter the address, you can immediately find the location of the address on the map. It should be noted that it is best not to use a lot of technical terms in this question, and strive to visualize and popularize profound professional knowledge, and give some vivid examples so that visa officers can understand your research content in a short time.

Geographic Information System (GIS) is a new specialty in China, with a low starting point and weak scientific research strength. It is still far behind foreign countries and lacks large-scale theoretical and practical research. However, this American university has strong research strength in this field, and its research direction is also in line with mine. Therefore, studying in this university can greatly improve your professional level. So I chose to study in America. The above explanation answers the applicant's understanding of the major, the problems encountered in studying in China and the advantages that can be obtained by studying in the United States.

Another example is a graduate student of structural engineering who goes to the United States to study for a doctorate. His three aspects are designed like this. In terms of professional knowledge, people now put forward higher requirements for the safety and reliability of houses. Their major is to study how to build high-performance buildings that can effectively resist typhoons and earthquakes and effectively ensure the safety of buildings by using probabilistic reliability methods. As for the difficulties encountered in studying in China, China has no advanced theory to guide the wind-resistant and earthquake-resistant design, and professors in universities have not conducted in-depth research in this field. Therefore, it is urgent to learn more advanced knowledge of wind-resistant and earthquake-resistant structures and use professional knowledge to improve the safety performance of Chinese buildings. The Pacific Earthquake Research Center of the University of Berkeley in the United States happens to have research projects in this field, and two professors are world-class experts in earthquake engineering and computational mechanics. So he hopes to go there for further study.

Practice shows that as long as the content planning of the above three aspects is true, concrete and convincing, the visa officer's judgment on immigration tendency can be effectively refuted. I have a deep understanding of this major, and I have encountered difficulties and problems in studying this major in China, but the United States is very developed in this field, so it is of course a reasonable decision to study in the United States. The second aspect that can reflect the visa officer's judgment on immigration tendency is the reason and plan of returning to China in the visa core design.

What is your career blueprint? What are you going to do after finishing your studies? Is there any development potential for your major in the United States to return to China in the future? If your major has no market in China, or you can't get a good return, how can you convince the visa officer that you will come back? Taking the above geographic information system as an example, the applicant positioned the plan of returning to China in Shanghai real estate industry, conducted open space analysis and planning, and promoted the rational development of the real estate industry. Real estate is the most prosperous and promising industry in China, and the development of my major in this field is certainly promising. For example, the reasons and plans for graduate students majoring in structural engineering to go to the United States for doctoral studies are all combined with the development of China's construction industry.

China's construction market is developing rapidly. With the advanced knowledge and methods learned in the United States, we can build safer and more reliable houses, and of course we can get rich returns. The applicant is from Guangzhou, and the Pearl River Delta region is the most economically developed region in China, with high requirements for housing. With my knowledge in the field of structural engineering, I believe I can make great achievements. In the above two examples, the reason and plan for returning to China are to closely combine your major with the domestic market and show visa officers that your major will make great achievements in China in the future, and you will get rich returns after returning to China. So, of course, there is no reason to stay in the United States and not return to China for development. This effectively refutes the visa officer's suspicion that the applicant has an immigration tendency.

In addition, in addition to the above core design content can effectively resist the visa officer's judgment on immigration tendency, we should also pay attention to a problem of return on capital. For example, if you spend almost all your savings in order to study in the United States, the visa officer will be very suspicious that you will return home after your studies. At this time, the visa officer may ask, is this all your savings? Or can you earn back your education investment after returning to China? At this time, you can explain your return on education investment from two aspects. For applicants with very rich family conditions, such as the applicant has a family business, the first applicant should emphasize that money is not a problem for you at all. You are not short of money, there is no need to stay and work in America for money. You have your long-term career goal, which must be achieved in China. For those self-funded applicants with strong professional background, it should be emphasized that their professional fields have broad development prospects in China, the employment situation is very good, and they can earn a lot of money. This can dispel the visa officer's doubts about himself. Finally, briefly explain a problem closely related to immigration tendency-"firm binding force" problem.

Sometimes the visa officer will refuse the visa on the grounds that the applicant and China are not firmly binding. In fact, the judgment of "firm binding force" can be regarded as an auxiliary content and way to judge the immigration tendency, because the best way to prove that the applicant has no immigration tendency is to show that there is a firm binding force between him and his motherland, "binding" the applicant to return to China immediately after completing his studies and providing strong support. If the applicant does not have this binding force, it means that he has an immigration tendency. In fact, the above reasons and plans for returning to China can also be regarded as a firm binding force, because it can prove that applicants have brilliant employment prospects in China and attract them to return to China for employment after completing their studies. There are some other aspects that are strongly binding. For example, it can prove that the applicant has family and social relations in China, such as parents or spouses, indicating that he will return to China to reunite with them after graduation. Another example is to present relevant documents to the visa officer to prove the applicant's economic relationship in China, such as owning his own family business and so on. Through these aspects, you can also effectively show the visa officer that you will definitely return to work after completing your studies and will not stay in the United States.