mavni 트럼프가 폐지시킨거임


2017년인가 그때 트럼프가 반이민 정책하면서 없앤걸로 기억함


트럼프가 대통령되면 더 반이민쪽으로 갈텐데 mavni 를 되돌릴일은 없음


mavni 폐지된 구체적인 이유가 mavni 들어간애들중 중국 공산당 스파이 요원이 발견됬기 때문임


그래서 security risk 라고 평가되서 폐지한거




https://news.clearancejobs.com/2023/01/26/when-the-sf-86-is-a-lie-chinese-espionage-follows/

China's U.S. Army MAVNI Program Candidate Gets Sent to Prison

A Chinese citizen successfully leveraged the MAVNI program and joined the U.S. Army Reserves as part of a Chinese espionage operation.

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In May 2016 a recent recipient of a graduate degree in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) applied to join the U.S. Army Reserves as part of the MAVNI (Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest) program. The graduate, identified as Ji Chaoqun (Ji), a Chinese citizen who came to the U.S. under a student visa. As part of the enlistment process, he was asked to fill out an SF-86, which he submitted on June 6, 2016. Unknown at the time, Ji was at the center of an elaborate Chinese espionage operation.

what is the MAVNI program?

The MAVNI program provides authorization to the U.S. Armed Forces to bring in individuals with key skills sets, be they linguistic, medical, or technology related into the armed forces. According to the Military Times, since the program’s inception in 2009, 10,400 troops have come through the program. President Obama ordered program participants be given additional background check scrutiny, effectively freezing the program (September 30, 2016 Defense Department memorandum) in the latter portion of 2016. The respective services were told that their cap for MAVNI candidates were Army: 1200, Navy: 65, Marine Corps: 65, and Air Force: 70.

A key feature of the MAVNI program allows service members an expedited path to U.S. citizenship. And it works, between FY 2001 and FY 2016 more than 109,250 members of the armed forces have obtained citizenship by serving the nation.

Ji’s in the Army now

Ji’s enlistment for all intents and purposes into the U.S. Army Reserves was processed in a normal manner. According to the Department of Justice’s criminal complaint filed on September 21, 2018, Ji provided the answer of “No.” to SF-86 Section 20B which queries as to the applicant’s contact with members of a foreign government inside or out of the United States. Thus his June 2016 submission processed in a normal manner, and fell directly within the time frame when President Obama ordered greater scrutiny. Apparently, Ji passed through this scrutiny, as the U.S. Army Reserves submitted Ji for a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) in December 2017.

During his SSBI interview, Ji was again asked about the existence of a relationship with individuals with ties to foreign governments. At the conclusion of the interview, he signed Army Form 2823, a sworn statement affirming his answers during the SSBI interview were truthful.

Ji’s relationship with China’s intelligence revealed

In late 2017, a counterintelligence investigation was taking place where the FBI was investigating Chinese intelligence attempts to purloin confidential information from a U.S. company. This investigation had nothing to do with Ji.

Within the corpus of information the FBI collected in support of the investigation resided a communication between two Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) intelligence officers which pointed investigators in the direction of Ji.




https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-us-spy-01262023022328.html



A Chinese former graduate student was sentenced in Chicago on Wednesday to eight years in prison for spying for China.

31-year-old Ji Chaoqun, who is also a member of the U.S. Army Reserve, was “acting illegally within the United States as an agent of the People’s Republic of China,” the U.S. Justice Department said.