abizon Atlas
Research on how the world actually moves
We see several hundred thousand visa applications a quarter. Aggregated and stripped of anything identifying, that is a uniquely direct measure of where people are going and what stops them. Atlas is where we publish it.
The dataset
What Atlas is built on
- Applications analysed
- Not published yet
- Destinations covered
- 152
- Requirement records
- Not published yet
- Publication
- Quarterly
Since 2023
All filing lanes
Each source-dated
Free, no registration
Reports
Published research
The Outbound Index 2026
Jul 2026Where Indian travellers went this year versus last, by destination, season and visa category. Includes the first measured effect of Sri Lanka's ETA fee cut on arrival volumes.
Visa-free is not the same as frictionless
Jun 2026Twenty-two destinations require no visa but do require an arrival card, a health declaration or proof of onward travel. We measured how often travellers get caught out.
Why Schengen applications get refused
May 2026An analysis of 96,000 Schengen filings and the specific fields most associated with refusal. Insufficient financial evidence is the headline, but not the biggest surprise.
The 72-hour traveller
Apr 2026One in nine applications is filed within three days of departure. Who they are, where they go, and how often they make the flight.
Business travel's visa tax
Mar 2026The true cost of visa friction for Indian companies, measured in employee hours rather than fees. The fee turns out to be the smaller number.
A field guide to processing times
Feb 2026What governments publish, what actually happens, and the gap between them across 155 destinations.
Method
How we handle the data
Publishing research off the back of customer applications only works if the customers are never identifiable in it. The constraints below are not editorial preferences — they are enforced in the pipeline that produces every figure.
Aggregation floor
No figure is published from a cell containing fewer than 1,000 applications. Where a destination or category falls below that, it is either merged into a broader group or omitted. This is why some small destinations never appear in Atlas despite us filing for them.
No document content, ever
Atlas draws on application metadata — destination, category, timing, outcome. It never touches the contents of a passport scan, a bank statement or a photograph. Those are deleted 30 days after an outcome in any case, as described in Security.
Outcomes are not attributed
Refusal analysis works on the reason codes governments return, aggregated across thousands of filings. We do not publish, and cannot reconstruct, why any individual application was refused.
Corrections
Where a published figure turns out to be wrong, the report is amended in place with a dated correction note at the top. We do not quietly re-publish. The two corrections issued so far are both recorded in the transparency report.
Reuse
Atlas reports are free to cite, quote and reproduce with attribution. Journalists wanting a cut of the data not covered by a published report can request it through the newsroom; we can usually turn those around within a working day.
Put the research to use
Requirements data, processing times and filing for 155 destinations, available through the partner API.