Russians Dominate Visa Applicants to Spain in Last 6 Years
Posted date: 04 Nov 2023
Russian nationals have applied the most for Spanish visas during the period between 2017 and 2022, breaking the record with a total of 1.8 million applications.
According to Schengen Statistics, Russian applicants dominate the application rates, as even the second-largest nationality group to file the most applications, Moroccans, have submitted just over half the number of applications filed by Russians, with 972,000 applications compared to 1.8 million, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
Application rates by Russians peaked in 2019, with 568,681 requests, while dropping significantly in the following year – to 58,817, which is a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In general, the decline of Russian applicants was 70.6 per cent.
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