16 percent of Turkish nationals’ visa requests were denied by Schengen states in 2023, totaling 169,500 denied visas. With the ongoing Visa Liberalization Dialogue between the EU and Turkey, which has been going on since 2013, this data is especially startling. The percentage of Turkish visa applications that are denied [...]
German officials have revealed that last year, their visa offices in overseas missions were among the busiest for issuing visas for spouse reunification. According to the German Federal Foreign Office, 71,129 visas for spouse reunification were granted to foreigners in total in 2022, an increase over the previous year. Data [...]
The consulates in Ankara, Edirne, Istanbul, and Izmir received a total of 120,876 visa applications from Turkish applicants in 2022. Regrettably, the German government turned down a substantial chunk of these requests, representing 39.7 percent or 48,040 applications, making Germany the first nation to reject the most visa requests from [...]