Does the length of time between the date a missionary receives a call and the report date to the MTC vary by the country assigned? Yes!
Because all missionaries must buy roughly the same clothing, know the same scriptures, etc., the difference in the preparation period is probably due to the length of time needed to acquire a visa. My data source is YouTube posts made in 2013 of future missionaries opening their calls. There were 707 posts. The three countries with the longest preparation period are Brazil (133 days), New Zealand (131 days) and Australia (128 days), and the shortest period, the Philippines, (82 days), the USA (85 days), and South Korea (94 days).
The preparation time for missionaries assigned to the United States acts like a control. Because most YouTube videos are posted by missionaries living in the United States, and they will not require a visa to serve, missionaries assigned to the United States should have a short preparation period and it does. Only missionaries assigned to the Philippines have a shorter wait.
The following table contains the shows the number of countries to which at least ten missionaries were called, the number of calls to that country and the preparation period.
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| Number of Observations | Days of Preparation |
| Argentina | 24 | 106 |
| Australia | 21 | 128 |
| Brazil | 49 | 133 |
| Canada | 14 | 99 |
| Chile | 2 | 113 |
| France | 10 | 115 |
| Japan | 24 | 113 |
| Mexico | 19 | 115 |
| New Zealand | 12 | 131 |
| Peru | 15 | 123 |
| Philippines | 23 | 82 |
| Russia | 11 | 110 |
| South Korea | 10 | 94 |
| Spain | 10 | 121 |
| United Kingdom | 36 | 117 |
| United States | 270 | 85 |
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