US student visa approval rates fall to 65%; Indians biggest winners
The US Department of State issued over 411,000 student visas during the 2022 fiscal year (October 2021 to September 2022), up 15% from 2021. Not only was this a 15% increase from the previous fiscal year, the largest non-pandemic year-over-year increase since 2010, but it was also the highest recorded total seen in six years, data from the State Department shows. Compared to the US, Canada issued over 420,000 student visas in 2022, a 27% increase over 2021. In the UK, annual growth was 34% in the year ending March 2023. «The US international education sector is on its way to a full recovery. The combination of a six-year high in F-1 visas issued, the largest annual increase in a decade (outside of the pandemic), and the emergence of several high-potential source markets build the foundation for an optimistic outlook,» according to ApplyBoard's latest report.
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« Back to recommendation storiesI don't want to see these stories becauseSUBMIT Approval RatesThe US has had one of its best-ever years in terms of student visa volume, but that wasn’t the case for approval rates. In 2021, the F-1 visa approval rate hit a 10-year high at over 80%, but in 2022 that trend flipped the other way. Just 65% of F-1 visas were approved in 2022.
India vs ChinaIndia saw an increase of over 43% in student visas issued from FY2021 to FY2022. Over 115,000 Indian students were issued F-1 visas in FY2022, putting the source market in prime position to overtake China (61,894) as the number one source country for total
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