Chinese university students have been spared the brunt of historically high visa knock-backs, with 97.2 per cent of applicants from the country getting approvals compared to 83 per cent across the board.
Dr Angela Lehmann, head of research for The Lygon Group, a consultancy that specialises in international education, said the Chinese numbers were surprising given“Chinese visa applicants are suffering the same kind of delays that other countries are having to deal with. But by and large, China’s seems fairly immune to some of the risk factors involved with the latest migration changes,” Dr Lehmann said.
But school and English-language students from China do not have the same success rates, Dr Lehmann said. “At first we were getting reports that students were terrified to leave their houses and were very confused by what had happened – was it an anti-China thing, but that seems to have faded now,” Dr Lehmann said.