{"id":61374,"date":"2023-11-28T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T18:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=61374"},"modified":"2023-11-28T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T18:44:38","slug":"visa-operations-bring-record-achievements-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=61374","title":{"rendered":"Visa Operations Bring Record Achievements Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>11\/28\/2023 01:18 PM EST<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The Department of State is committed to facilitating legitimate travel to the United States while maintaining high national security standards. \u00a0International visitors are instrumental in building people-to-people ties and bring enormous economic benefit to local communities and key sectors of the U.S. economy.\u00a0\u00a0From October 2022 through September 2023 (the 2023 federal fiscal year), the Department of State issued a near record level of nonimmigrant visas \u2013 more than 10 million globally.\u00a0\u00a0Half of our U.S. embassies and consulates adjudicated more nonimmigrant visas than ever before.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In addition to our near historic total of more than\u00a0<strong><u>4 million nonimmigrant visas issued worldwide<\/u>:\u00a0<\/strong>We issued nearly\u00a0<strong><u>eight million visitor visas for business and tourism<\/u><\/strong>, more than in any fiscal year since 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Preparing Americans for a global environment and attracting future leaders from abroad:\u00a0<\/strong>International students at U.S. colleges and universities inject up to $38 billion dollars annually into the U.S. economy.\n<ul>\n<li>The Department issued more than\u00a0<strong><u>600,000<\/u><\/strong><u>\u00a0<strong>student visas<\/strong><\/u>, the highest in any year since FY 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Our embassy and consulates in India issued an all-time record of more than 140,000 student visas.<\/li>\n<li>The Department issued nearly 40,000 student visas to African students, of which more than 9,700 visas\u00a0were to Nigerian applicants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bolstering national and economic security:<\/strong>\u00a0In recent years, international visitors have contributed as much as $239 billion in annual spending to the U.S. economy and supported an estimated 9.5 million American jobs.\n<ul>\n<li>We issued a record-breaking\u00a0<strong><u>442,000 visas to temporary and seasonal workers,<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0addressing the need for workers in agriculture and other sectors where too few U.S. workers are available, contributing to the American economy while addressing the root causes of irregular migration.<\/li>\n<li>We issued\u00a0<strong><u>590,000 nonimmigrant visas to high-skilled workers and executives<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0to work alongside American experts in some of the United States\u2019 most critical fields, ranging from emerging technology to healthcare.<\/li>\n<li>We issued nearly\u00a0<strong><u>365,000 nonimmigrant visas to airline and shipping crew members,<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0who are essential for maintaining global transportation and the supply chains that support the U.S. and global economies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Preparing for the future and investing in innovation:<\/strong>\u00a0These achievements were possible because of innovative solutions, such as expanding\u00a0<a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDAsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnN0YXRlLmdvdi9leHRlbnNpb24tb2YtaW50ZXJ2aWV3LXdhaXZlcnMtZm9yLWNlcnRhaW4tbm9uaW1taWdyYW50LXZpc2EtYXBwbGljYW50cy8iLCJidWxsZXRpbl9pZCI6IjIwMjMxMTI4Ljg2MjcxMzcxIn0.K3zaRSnAY8bblz7Qe-FeB4-yMF1wIzubjw7KGt1TENQ\/s\/2576317770\/br\/231736692651-l. 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Looking to the future, we are exploring new technologies to assess opportunities to streamline operations, such as the option of domestic renewal in select visa categories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>America is open for business, and U.S. visa operations support the nation every day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/28\/2023 01:18 PM EST &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61375,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61374\/revisions\/61375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}