US visa fraud charges against Chinese scientists dropped


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[Support migrant centric journalism today and donate] The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has dropped US visa fraud charges against five Chinese scientists. In 2020, [Workpermit.com reported](/news/another-chinese-researcher-hit-us-j1-visa-fraud-charges-20200724) on several instances of Chinese researchers, reportedly with connections to China’s military, charged with US visa fraud and espionage. [Workpermit.com reported] on several instances of Chinese researchers, reportedly with connections to China’s military, charged with US visa fraud and espionage. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently filed motions in federal courts to dismiss the charges, brought by the DoJ with the aim of ‘protecting American technology from China’. The so-called ‘China Initiative’...