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Ecuadorians request more than 250,000 U.S. visas

Published on April 06, 2018
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Andrew Sherr, the U.S. Consul to the Guayaquil, says that 250,000 visa requests from Ecuadorians who wish to visit the U.S have been processed within the last year. There were 9,000 migration visas requested. “The legal migration from Ecuador to the U.S. has decreased in the last years, although we don’t […]

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