2021 Year In Review: Global Immigration And Mobility

Immigrants are critical to the economic success of global economies. However, COVID-19 poses a massive threat to the movement of people around the globe.  

With nearly every country on the globe imposing travel restrictions, border closures and more, 2021 has still been a remarkable year for global immigration and mobility. In 2020, when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic and the threat of the virus became apparent, some of the world's largest global economies shut their international borders - with many remaining closed for nearly nine months. Countries, including Sweden, Ireland and India, stopped processing visas at some point throughout the pandemic and immigrants everywhere were met with strict entry requirements and restrictions.