Blank passport pages required for B2 visa to the United States

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The Foreign Affairs Manual, which tells US State Department employees how to do their jobs, says in 9 FAM 403.9-6(A)(b) that:

You must issue a separate MRV to each qualified applicant, even when the same passport includes multiple applicants. Therefore, a passport must contain at least one unmarked page for each visa issued. When possible, the page opposite the visa-ed page should also remain unmarked. This will provide space for the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer at the POE to annotate and/or stamp the applicant’s passport at the time CBP admits the applicant into the United States.

So, you need a bare minimum of one blank page per visa, and preferably the facing page should also be blank. This is because, on first use, CBP will place a stamp across the visa and the passport binding, in addition to the regular admission stamp, much like this.

US admission stamp across visa

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