{"id":15158,"date":"2017-03-16T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15158"},"modified":"2017-03-16T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T11:56:09","slug":"the-economics-of-american-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/the-economics-of-american-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of American Visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/031617_1152_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tkasang and Rodionos delved into publicly available data on American visas between 1997 and 2015:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The data reflects the international landscape as the US sees it. 82% of Cuban visas were rejected in 2015, while all visa applications from Lictenstein, Monaco, and San Marino were approved.<\/li>\n<li>It also reflects trends over time. Visa rejections from traditional US allies like Canada and Norway have shot up as the world has become more closed.<\/li>\n<li>On the other hand Poland&#8217;s visa rejection rate decreased by 21% &#8211; likely because it joined the European Union.<\/li>\n<li>In 2015 the United States received a total of 13.5 million visa applications and approved 81% of them.<\/li>\n<li>The country still earned money from application fees on the visas it rejected. In 2015 this totalled $411 million.<\/li>\n<li>Mexico and India were responsible for a significant chunk of the rejected visa revenue, bringing in $60 million and $48 million respectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/axibase\/atsd-use-cases\/blob\/master\/USVisaRefusal\/README.md\">GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tkasang and Rodionos delved into publicly available data on American visas between 1997 and 2015: The data reflects the international landscape as the US sees it. 82% of Cuban visas were rejected in 2015, while all visa applications from Lictenstein, Monaco, and San Marino were approved. It also reflects trends over time. Visa rejections from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/031617_1152_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15161,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15158\/revisions\/15161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}