What we will not show you

One destination does publish the cross everyone wants. The UK Home Office releases entry clearance outcomes by nationality and visa type together, so a per-country student or work refusal rate genuinely exists there and we show it. The US, Canada and Australia each withhold a different part of it. That contrast is the whole reason this page exists: the gaps are specific, not universal.

Every figure below is one people ask for constantly. None of them exists in public US data. We return nothing rather than an estimate.

Requested figure	Status	Why
F-1 refusal rate for India (or any one country)	Not published	Refusal rates by nationality exist for B visas only. By class, only a worldwide figure exists.
H-1B refusal rate by nationality	Not published	Same gap. USCIS's H-1B Employer Data Hub carries no beneficiary nationality field at all.
Approval rate at a specific consulate	Not published	Monthly files exist by post and by nationality, but are never crossed — and neither carries refusals.
214(b) or 221(g) rate for a country or class	Not published	Refusal grounds are published globally with no class and no nationality split.
Any refusal figure at monthly frequency	Not published	All monthly State Department files are issuances only.
Canadian visitor visa refusal rate, for any country	Not published	IRCC publishes applications received by source country and visas approved by source country — two tables that do not cross. Received in a month is not decided in that month, withdrawals leave the pipeline, and the approval file covers V-1 counterfoils only. `1 − approved/received` would look like a refusal rate and would not be one.
Australian refusal counts by country	Not published	Home Affairs publishes the grant rate by citizenship, which we show — but not the underlying counts, so there is no denominator to reconstruct. Only about fifteen nationalities are named; the rest sit in an "Other countries" bucket we do not attribute to anyone.
H-1B lottery odds by nationality	Not published	Selection rate is released as a single global number in a news post.
FY2017 and FY2018 nationality refusal rates	Never published	Both PDFs return 404 at the source. Our charts break the line rather than interpolating.

The statute

8 U.S.C. § 1202(f) makes State Department and consular records on the issuance or refusal of visas confidential, with narrow exceptions for courts and for reciprocal law-enforcement sharing. It operates as a FOIA Exemption 3 withholding statute, so record-level requests are refused as a matter of course.

The three dimensions people want — refusal ground, visa class, nationality — are each published, but only as separate marginal tables. The cross-tabulation does not exist in any public US dataset. That is a publication decision, not a scraping problem, and no amount of engineering produces it.

Anyone displaying a per-country, per-class refusal rate is doing one of three things: mislabelling a worldwide figure as a national one, interpolating, or making it up.