In 2023, officials rejected 16% of the 10.3 million Schengen visa applications.
France did the most rejecting. Comoros had the most rejections at 61%.
Out of 3,700 Comoros applications, officials rejected 61%.
Schengen Statistics gave this information to the news.
Greece also had a high rejection rate. They rejected 56.4% of applications from people in other countries, especially for Norway.
People from smaller countries had higher rejection rates. This was true even if they didn’t send many applications.
Africa and Asia had the most rejections.
top 10 Schengen visa rejection countriesSix of the top ten countries where people were told “Rejected” were in Africa. Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, Mali, Guinea, and Sudan had a lot of rejections.
- Comoros had 57.6% of its visa applications to France turned down.
- Greece denied 37% of 4,900 applications for Norway visas.
- Guinea-Bissau’s Spain and Portugal visa applications had a 47.6% rejection rate.
- Officials said no to 49.6% of Pakistan’s 86,700 applications.
- Ghana had a 47.6% rate of visa applications rejected.
- Mali had 46.1% of its applications denied.
- Other countries with a lot of rejections were Syria at 46%
- Guinea at 43.7%
- Bangladesh at 43.3%,
- And Sudan at 42.3%
This was the highest number of rejections worldwide.
The numbers showed that countries that aren’t very big had more applications rejected.
This trend hurt many countries in Africa and Asia the most. They had big problems when they wanted to get Schengen visas.
The information showed clear things about visa rejections. Schengen offices said ‘Rejected’ to more applications from these areas a lot.
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