Over the three-year period, 2014-2016, the number of non-immigrant visas issued by the United States Embassy here has seen significant increases by over 20,000 each year.
United States Ambassador to Guyana, Perry Holloway, had in July of this year informed that for last year some 72,000 non-immigrant visas were issued here and said that it was mostly due to the improving economic situation in the country.
“The improving economic situation over the last few years has led to our refusal rate coming down significantly, from a high of well over 50 percent five years ago, to one much lower today and luckily for us only a small percent of Guyanese, who go to the US actually abuse their visas and stay illegally”, Holloway had stated.