Download the data

Everything here is derived from US government works and is free to use. Attribution appreciated; a link back is how this stays maintained.

Files

b_refusal_rates_by_country.csv — every nationality × fiscal year, long format, with our computed rank and change columns.
refusal_by_visa_class.csv — issued, refused, total applications and rate for every visa class, FY2013–FY2024, worldwide.
panel.json — the whole panel as JSON.

Citing this

Please cite the underlying government source alongside us. For the country series that is the US Department of State's adjusted B-visa refusal rate tables; for class-level figures it is the NIV Workload by Visa Category tables. Our contribution is normalisation across 18 years of inconsistent country labelling, plus the computed rank/change/volatility columns.

API

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The State Department publishes these figures once a year with no announcement, and has skipped years entirely. We check the source daily and will email you when the number moves. No newsletter, no marketing — just the data changing.