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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..
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...
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 international students in the US...
F-1 visas issued to Chinese students fell by over 35% in 2022, while India experienced its largest single-year growth ever outside of 2021, at over 43%...
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