U.s. Secretary of education: make the visa process more transparent and expeditious

Managers school 【 school. 】 reported as United States Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings · and Deputy Secretary of State Colin Powell to Claudine · United States University, led by a high-level delegation 16, arrival in China visit, inviting more Chinese students studying in the us. 　　Spellings said that the US will work to coordinate the foreign student visa problems, the visa program "faster" and "transparent" and "faster". This is the United States first composition University delegation's visit to China, Indiana University, the Ohio State University, Johns Hopkins University, the United States well-known universities 12.

In the afternoon, spellings delivered a speech at the Beijing Normal University, said that the United States has about 4000 universities, many schools and universities in research, technology, medicine, infrastructure construction, and other areas of cooperation. At present in the United States to study Chinese students total 6.2 million, is the foreign students in the greatest number.

"9 · 11" incident, the United States Department of State to issue to foreign students study visa developed a more rigorous standards, making the visa handling process becomes stackup. Spellings said that the United States State Department and the Department for communication and coordination, will continue to facilitate visa procedures can be faster, more transparent, more quickly.

In her introduction, in 2005 the United States to the issuance of visas for foreign students is about 60 million, an increase of 15 per cent. Eligible applicants are usually a few days to get the visa.

Spellings invites more Chinese students studying in the United States. She said that the United States looked forward to the Chinese students in colleges and universities. Many United States colleges and universities have to allocate larger sums of money to support international exchange projects, ensuring that students have a comfortable learning and living conditions.

In Beijing, the spellings line with Chinese Government officials, University Presidents and entrepreneurs to meet, discuss cooperation issues in education.