State Department · SEVIS · Open Doors · 2010–2026

U.S. student visas, read as a year

F-1 issuance is a flow. SEVIS and Open Doors are stocks, and they lag the visa window by about two years. Choose a year to read them on one page.

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2024 snapshot

F-1 issued

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F-1 refusal

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SEVIS active

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Open Doors

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MIT headcount

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F-1 visas issued

Global fiscal-year flow. State Department visa tables.

Stock: SEVIS and Open Doors

Active F/M records and total international enrollment.

F-1 refusal rate

Share of F-1 applications denied worldwide.

MIT international students

One campus against the national flow. Total enrolled.

Places of origin

Open Doors snapshots. India passed China in 2023/24, the first time since 2008/09.

Every year

Select a row to move the snapshot. † is an estimate or an interpolated anchor.

F-1 issuance, refusal, SEVIS, Open Doors, MIT, and top origin by year
Year F-1 Refusal SEVIS Open Doors MIT Origin

Policy events

Rules, bans, and court decisions that land on these years.