The United States grants visas in spades, and some countries get more than others. Only 285,000 tickets were issued in 2022. For the year 2021, the US State Department has just published its annual report indicating the number of permits issued worldwide. What place for Morocco?
According to this report, Morocco obtained 3585 visas and ranks second among Arab countries, behind Yemen with 4770 visas. The 3rd place is won by Jordan with 2785 visas. Then come, in order, Egypt with 2230 visas, Algeria with 1922 visas, Lebanon with 1543 visas, Sudan with 783 visas, Syria with 757 visas, Somalia with 724 visas, Saudi Arabia with 701 visas, the Arab Emirates with the United States 598 visas, Iraq with 576 visas, Kuwait with 412 visas, Tunisia 298 visas, Libya 233 visas, Qatar 190 visas, and Djibouti 80 visas. At the bottom of the ranking is Bahrain with 66 visas, Mauritania with 62 visas, then the Sultanate of Oman with only 38 visas granted in 2021.
Also on the continental scale, Morocco is overtaken by a single country: Nigeria, which obtained 4,990 visas. A total of 35,776 U.S. visas were issued to African citizens in 2021.
Globally, Mexico leads with 40,597 visas issued, followed by the Dominican Republic (17,941) and China (18,501).
“Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Posts were instructed to suspend routine visa services and only provide critically and emergency services at the end of March 2020. This significantly impacted the provision of services relating to immigrant and non-immigrant visas. Posts were only able to resume limited services post-by-post until July 2020, as local conditions permitted,” the US State Department said in its new annual report to justify the low level. issuance of visas.
