""This current adjudication landscape undermines the principle of merit-based entry by creating localities where visa requests are not judged on their own merit.""
""Visa refusals reached a decade high of 35 percent worldwide in 2025, with nearly two-thirds of F-1 visa requests from Africans being rejected.""
In 2025, F-1 visa rejections reached a decade high of 35 percent globally, with significant increases from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. African applicants faced a 64 percent rejection rate, while India saw its rate rise from 36 percent to 61 percent. In contrast, South American rejection rates decreased to 22 percent. The report indicates that visa refusals are inconsistent by region, with varying rates among Latin American countries. Shorelight criticized the lack of merit-based evaluations in the visa adjudication process.
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