In the early morning of August 3, a delegation from Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), comprised of two lecturers and eight undergraduate and postgraduate students, touched down in Australia after a 12-hour flight from China’s capital. This brisk winter morning was filled with a mixture of flight fatigue and excitement as these young people, without even checking into their hotel, headed straight to La Trobe University on the outskirts of Melbourne, the first stop of their study trip.
Back in June, when the delegation reached out to the Australian Visa Application Center via e-mail to inquire about the type of visas they should apply for, they were quite uncertain about the trip. However, the visa processing went unexpectedly smoothly, with nearly everyone obtaining a
