France denies employment visa to Chinese researcher after French intelligence indicated he had links with the Chinese military
France denies employment visa to Chinese researcher after French intelligence indicated he had links with the Chinese military
A Chinese teacher-researcher recruited by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers has been prevented from travelling to France to take up his post. A French administrative court has
A Chinese teacher-researcher has been prevented from taking up a post at the prestigious French engineering school, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) in Paris, where he had been due to give lectures and pursue his research work in a restricted access laboratory. The researcher, who already had a contract in Israel, applied for a long-stay "talent" visa of the kind normally granted to researchers at the French consulate general in Jerusalem.
His application was initially refused on 5 June. He appealed against the decision to the specialised visa appeals body in Nantes in western France, which has yet to give its decision, but also took his case to the Nantes administrative court, asking it to suspend the consulate's decision and order the French authorities to grant him the visa he had applied for.