Plenty of US tourist visas being issued to Dominicans
The Dominican Republic is in sixth place among the 12 countries in the world that received more than 100,000 tourist visas to visit the United States in 2017. The DR is the fourth country in Latin America in number of tourist visas received for its nationals.
During 2017, US consulates around the world issued a total of 9,681,913 nonimmigrant visas of which 80% were in the category of tourist visa, according to migration specialist Roque Leonel Rodriguez. Of these, Dominicans received 205,460 non-immigrant visas of which 194,557 were as tourists.
In the world ranking, the most non-immigrant visas for the United States were issued to citizens of the following countries: China with 1,452, 834; India (599,883); Brazil (520,589); Argentina (353,555); Colombia (333,433) and the Dominican Republic (194,557), followed by Ecuador in seventh place with 168,103, Russia, (164,944), Israel (163,495); Nigeria (155,940); Philippines (115,712) and Vietnam (100,423).
In the last few years the number of visas given to Dominicans has increased and in 2017 it was the second year it went over 100,000 as in 2016 there were 146,901 non-immigrant visas for Dominicans and last year 205,460.
Source: DR1, Listindiario
March 26, 2018
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