U.S. Foreign Embassies Making Millions

A report on the front page of a foreign country’s Sunday newspaper indicated that the United States embassy there acquired $25 million U.S. dollars so far this year from visa applications. In general, this information does not only show the massive income that the U.S. embassy has acquired from this particular country, but it is unimaginable how much billions in total visa income each year that the U.S. government must be earning from all their foreign embassies.  The newspaper also included information that 159,000 applicants have visited this U.S. embassy so far during this year. The U.S. Counsel General from this embassy indicated that 65% of applications are approved. However, contrary to his claim, on a good day, the majority of applicants who line up overnight or during the wee hours of the morning will not be successful in their visa bid. A low visa approval quota means that there is money to be made by foreign U.S. embassies in certain countries where so many of the vulnerable applicants, who struggle to gain the application fee, have no chance of getting a U.S. visitors’ visa.  The U.S. embassies come out on top, at the expense of these applicants, since the foreign agencies get to pocket the visa application fees without issuing any visas to so many.  Therefore, the foreign U.S. embassies are running a profitable business at the expense of so many.