Beijing: The United States has spent more than 85,000 student visas in China since May, the Beijing embassy said on Wednesday, after the Biden government relieved restrictions on the application earlier this year.
Foreign department data shows that 33,896 F1 student visas issued for Chinese citizens in June, up from only 8 issued in the previous June and close to 34,001 in June 2019.
Visa F1 is the most common US visa for foreign students, and June usually It is a busy month.
“The numbers show clearly that the United States is ready to publish a visa to all those who meet the requirements – including students and Chinese scholars,” the Embassy said in a statement.
In January 2020, at that time – President Donald Trump banned almost all non-US citizens in China entering the United States after the start of the Coronavirus outbreak.
And last September, Trump’s administration revoked a visa of hundreds of Chinese students and researchers considered the security risk, in the midst of a tense relationship with Beijing.
“Given some violations of visa processes, the United States applies a narrow targeted policy to protect US national security interests,” said the US Embassy, ​​which affected the “small percentage” applicants.
Announcement of April easing Biden Administration Restrictions on the VISA application of Chinese students provide encouragement for US universities that struggle financially during a pandemic.
The American Council concerning Education quotes a study saying that the economic benefits produced by international students have declined by around $ 2 billion in the 2019-20 academic year to surrounding $ 39 billion.
About 372,000 Chinese residents contributed 35% of international students in the United States in the 2019-20 academic year, according to Exchange International Education (IEE), almost twice as many as India, the second largest source.
In school years starting in 2019, Chinese students bring estimates of economic benefits of $ 16 billion to the United States, IEE SA Indo’s report.