Active-duty military of a foreign nation gets special attention at borders. As you might expect. When I was in the USAF my unit got invited to participate in a

Active-duty military of a foreign nation gets special attention at borders. As you might expect. When I was in the USAF my unit got invited to participate in a shooting competition in Innsbruck. At the time, Austria was a neutral country (that is: not in NATO or the Warsaw Pact), so we each had a special document from their Foreign Minister giving us permission to enter while in uniform and handle weapons. https://imgur.com/a/5ZDNWBI https://imgur.com/a/5ZDNWBI This PLA Major knew that his J1 visa would have been held up (best case) or denied (worst-case) so he lied on the application about who he worked for. Customs & Border Protection is actually being low-key about this, because as an officer in a foreign military who lied and entered the country and then worked at a research facility, he could easily have been charged with being a spy.