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Antigua and Barbuda had the lowest refusal rates in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States for US non-immigrant visas last year.<\/p>

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That revelation has come from an updated report posted on the website of the US State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs.<\/p>\n

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According to the report, the refusal rate for Antigua and Barbuda nationals who applied for and were refused B-1 or B-2 visas last year stands at 14.09 per cent.<\/p>

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In comparison, the refusal rate for Dominica is 25 per cent, Grenada \u2013 16.58 per cent, St. Kitts and Nevis \u2013 17.14 per cent, St. Lucia \u2013 16.72 per cent, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines \u2013 14.12 per cent.<\/p>

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Those statistics make Antigua and Barbuda the most successful within the OECS \u2013 as far as US visitor visa approvals for last year are concerned \u2013 and also place the country among the best in the wider region.<\/p>\n

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Across CARICOM, the Bahamas has an 8.3 per cent refusal rate, Barbados \u2013 6.55 per cent, Belize \u2013 26.45 per cent, Guyana \u2013 28.42 per cent, Haiti \u2013 47.12 per cent, Jamaica \u2013 30.04 per cent, Suriname \u2013 11.91 per cent, and Trinidad and Tobago \u2013 13.64 per cent.<\/p>

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Antigua and Barbuda had the lowest refusal rates in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States for US non-immigrant visas last year.   That revelation has come from an updated report posted on the website of the US State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs.   According to the report, the refusal rate for Antigua and Barbuda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":177447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nAntigua and Barbuda boasts lowest US visa refusal rate among OECS - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Antigua and Barbuda boasts lowest US visa refusal rate among OECS\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-and-barbuda-boasts-lowest-us-visa-refusal-rate-among-oecs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Antigua and Barbuda boasts lowest US visa refusal rate among OECS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Antigua and Barbuda boasts lowest US visa refusal rate among OECS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-and-barbuda-boasts-lowest-us-visa-refusal-rate-among-oecs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-06-24T16:45:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-24T16:47:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/US-visa-1366x768-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1366\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-and-barbuda-boasts-lowest-us-visa-refusal-rate-among-oecs\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-and-barbuda-boasts-lowest-us-visa-refusal-rate-among-oecs\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"Antigua and Barbuda boasts lowest US visa refusal rate among OECS\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-06-24T16:45:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-24T16:47:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-and-barbuda-boasts-lowest-us-visa-refusal-rate-among-oecs\/\"},\"wordCount\":188,\"commentCount\":14,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-and-barbuda-boasts-lowest-us-visa-refusal-rate-among-oecs\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1366\/h:768\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/US-visa-1366x768-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-and-barbuda-boasts-lowest-us-visa-refusal-rate-among-oecs\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-and-barbuda-boasts-lowest-us-visa-refusal-rate-among-oecs\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-and-barbuda-boasts-lowest-us-visa-refusal-rate-among-oecs\/\",\"name\":\"Antigua and Barbuda boasts lowest US visa refusal rate among OECS - 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