DOS Releases Visa Office Report for 2024

The Department of State (DOS) has released its Report of the Visa Office for 2024.

DOS noted that the Visa Office changed its methodology for calculating visa data beginning with the FY 2019 annual visa office report “to reflect the greater access to application-level data attained during FY 2019.”

Also, the report notes that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, posts were instructed to suspend routine visa services and provide only mission-critical and emergency services in late March 2020. “This had a significant impact on the provision of Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Visa-related services. Posts were only able to resume limited services on a post-by-post basis beginning in July 2020, as local conditions allowed,” the report notes in Table I, Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Visas Issued at Foreign Service Posts, Fiscal Years 2020-2024.

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