The number of international students going to the US for higher education increased by 15% in 2022 from the previous year. Canada witnessed even a higher increase in the rate of visa applications. All of the top study abroad destinations of the world were highly impacted during the coronavirus pandemic. But now that the pandemic is over, these countries are slowly recovering from the laws that they had to incur during the pandemic. In 2021, the visa approval rate for the USA hit an all-time high with 80% approvals.
But eventually the approval rate has come down to 65%. Around 43% of Indian students who applied for an American student visa in 2022 were able to get visa approvals. In 2022 the number of student visas issued to Chinese students dropped by 35%
