Report Analysis and Discussion
US Visa Policy Diminishing Exports and Manufacturing Jobs
The arrival of Arab visitors to the US peaked in 2001 at 315,000 thousand entries. By 2005 the number had declined to less than 200,000. According to the report VISA Denied, this barrier was a causal factor in the decline of the real value of exports from America to Saudi Arabia. These exports reached only $6.8 billion dollars in 2005. Absent growing barriers, exports could easily have reached $18 billion tracking pre 9/11 share growth trends.
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