The Department of State is committed to facilitating legitimate travel to the United States while maintaining high national security standards. International 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. From October 2022 through September 2023 (the 2023 federal fiscal year), the Department of State issued a near record level of nonimmigrant visas – more than 10 million globally. Half of our U.S. embassies and consulates adjudicated more nonimmigrant visas than ever before.
- In addition to our near historic total of more than 4 million nonimmigrant visas issued worldwide: We issued nearly eight million visitor visas for business and tourism, more than in any fiscal year since 2015.
- Preparing Americans for a global environment and attracting future…
