More than 15% of Moroccans' Schengen Visa applications rejected in 2022

More than 15% of Moroccans' Schengen Visa applications rejected in 2022
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Monday 10 July 2023 - 14:00

119,000 Moroccan individuals’ applications for Schengen visas were denied, with a rejection rate of above 15%, according to the most recent figures provided on the Visa Schengen website.

For the year 2022, Algeria had the biggest percentage of visa applications that were denied, with more than 179,000 rejected applications and a rejection rate of 45.8%.

These figures were included on the Visa Schengen website in the final list of nations whose residents’ visa requests were denied the most in the previous year.

The list included Egypt with more than 31,000 rejected Schengen visa applications, the United Arab Emirates with more than 42,000, and Tunisia with more than 48,000 rejected applications for its citizens.

Turkey recorded a rejection rate of 15.2% for applications with more than 120,000 applications denied. Russia, with nearly 69,000 applications filed by Russian individuals being rejected, recorded a rejection rate of 28.2%.

India came in first place in Asia with around 121,000 Indian applications denied, representing an 18% rejection rate, followed by the Islamic Republic of Iran with about 33,700 Iranian applications refused in 2022.

More than 39,000 applications from Nigerian citizens were turned down with a rejection rate of roughly 46%.

The refusal rates for Schengen Visas recorded an increase in 2022 compared to the previous year.

The ten nations on the list spent around 64 million euros on more than 804,000 denied visas in the previous year. In comparison to 2021.

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