London 发给艾未未6个月签证 (NOT 20 days)

choi

英政府确认发给艾未未6个月签证. VOA Chinese, July 30, 2015
www.voachinese.com/content/voa-b ... 150730/2887075.html
("英国签证处说，艾未未没有在申请表上如实填写自己的 '犯罪记录。'  英国入境管理处的一位官员表示：'这涉及公共记录问题，你曾经在中国有刑事定罪，而你不申报。'  可是英国内政部却说，'有关拒发艾先生签证的报道是错误的' ”)

Note:
(a) "英国签证处说，艾未未没有在申请表上如实填写自己的 '犯罪记录。'  英国入境管理处的一位官员表示：'这涉及公共记录问题，你曾经在中国有刑事定罪，而你不申报。' "

Josh Chin and Felicia Sonmez, ‘False Representations’: UK Restricts Ai Weiwei’s Visa. China Real Time, July 30, 2015.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... ts-ai-weiweis-visa/

Quote:

(i) "Mr Ai * * * posted a photo [of the rejection letter] on the social media site Instagram on Thursday [July 30] that showed a letter from the British Embassy in Beijing informing him that his request for a six-month business visa had been rejected. Instead, the letter said, he would be given entry clearance 'outside the Immigration Rules' [showing leniency; 法外開恩] only for the 20 days he indicated he planned to travel in the UK.

"In explaining why he wasn’t given a regular visa, the letter said the artist had made false representations in his application, namely by denying he had ever been convicted of a crime.

“ 'It is a matter of public record that you have previously received a criminal conviction in China,' it said.

(ii) "A separate Instagram post published on Mr Ai’s account Thursday said in English that he had never been charged with or convicted of a crime. It said he had tried to explain his claim in multiple phone calls with the British Embassy and UK Visas and Immigration Department, 'but the representatives insisted on the accuracy of their sources and refused to admit any misjudgment.' ”

(b) UK Visas and Immigration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Visas_and_Immigration
(UKVI; a division of the Home Office [based in London])
(c) 艾未未 Instagram
https://instagram.com/aiww/

displayed a UK visa valid from "09/09/15" to "29/09/15."
(d) Mr Ai's twitter account merely points to his two Instagram photos (one is the rejection letter, the other the 20-day visa).
https://twitter.com/aiww