Four Chinese students filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California earlier this month challenging the U.S. government's cancellation of their student visas, and a judge recently granted them interim protection.

Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) has introduced the Protecting Higher Education from the Chinese Communist Party Act, which would ban "individuals serving in the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and their family members from receiving student or research visas."