According to statistics from China's Education Ministry released on June 3, among the more than 10,000 Chinese whose studies in the US were sponsored by the Chinese government in 2018, 331 people were unable to do so because of a visa issue. In the first quarter of this year, 182 people out of the 1,353 sponsored by the government had an unresolvable visa issue. That compares with over 100,000 Chinese students enrolled in US universities in 2018." In other words,  the rejection rate has increased from 3% in 2018 to 13% in the first quarter of 2019.