The State Department recently published the Report of the Visa Office 2024 showing a steady climb in both immigrant visa and nonimmigrant visa issuance in fiscal year (FY) 2024.

According to the report, the State Department issued a total of 612,258 immigrant visas, an increase of 8.75% from last year’s total of 562,976. Nonimmigrant visa issuance advanced at a slower pace, rising from 10,438,327 in FY 2023 to 10,969,936 in FY 2024 — a year-over-year increase of just over 5%. Most posts in India and Mexico issued record high nonimmigrant visas in FY 2024.

Overall visa issuance continues its upward trend after plummeting during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fiscal year Immigrant visas issued globally
2024 612,258
2023 562,976
2022 493,448
2021 285,069
2020 240,526

 

Fiscal year Nonimmigrant visas issued globally
2024 10,969,936
2023 10,438,327
2022 6,815,120
2021 2,792,083
2020 4,013,210

Additional Information: The Visa Services Office publishes immigrant visa and nonimmigrant visa data in the annual Report of the Visa Office. Beginning with FY 2019, the annual report replaced an earlier transaction-based methodology with an application-centric methodology in the counting and reporting of all immigrant and nonimmigrant visa data.

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