Obtaining U.S. Visas for Chinese Business Visitors & Co-Workers
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Obtaining U.S. Visas for Chinese Business Visitors & Co-Workers
Confused about how U.S. export control concerns may affect your Chinese co-worker or client's ability to obtain a visa? MK Technology is pleased to present a webinar on understanding the U.S. visa process for Chinese visitors, with a special focus on how U.S. export controls may affect an application. Jeannette Chu, Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Department of Commerce, is uniquely qualified to address these issues. Ms. Chu was posted to China from 1997 through 2010, serving as the Officer-in-Charge of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in Guangzhou and Beijing, and also as the Senior Export Control Attaché representing BIS in China.
Jeannette Chu currently serves as the Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security where she works on a broad range of national security and foreign policy issues including export control reform.
From 2005 through 2010 Ms. Chu represented the Bureau of Industry and Security as the Senior Export Control Attaché at the U.S. Embassy Beijing. She established the U.S.-China High Technology and Strategic Trade Working Group under the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade and successfully negotiated an agreement with the Chinese government to expand U.S. government inspections at Chinese companies receiving controlled items from U.S. exporters. Ms. Chu also conducted 250 risk assessments at manufacturing and research facilities in 19 provinces in China, providing information critical to processing U.S. export licenses for controlled items. She also provided regular training to Consular Officers on technology transfer risk assessments.
Ms. Chu served as a Senior Special Agent with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from 1991 through 2005. She was the first immigration officer to be posted to China, opening the INS office at the American Consulate General Guangzhou (Canton, China), in 1997 and serving as the Officer-in-Charge of that office until 2000 when she became the Immigration Attaché/Officer-in-Charge of the INS office at the American Embassy Beijing. Ms. Chu established and directed the world’s largest political asylee and orphan adoption processing centers, negotiated the repatriation of Chinese nationals intercepted abroad and deported from the United States, and trained U.S. and foreign government officials on detecting fraudulent documents and malafide travelers from China.
Ms. Chu’s government career spans more than thirty years across seven agencies, including 24 years spent as a federal criminal investigator and 13 years as an American diplomat in China. She received her B.A. in Political Science from American University in Washington, D.C. Ms. Chu is a frequent speaker on China and trade compliance issues.