Almaty’s H1B visa issuance rate

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Before COVID, Almaty issued 7.3 H1B visas in an average December. This December, they issued 11. It seems like Almaty is hard at work catching up on their backlog from COVID.
Source: The U.S. Department of State’s Monthly Immigrant Visa Issuance Statistics.
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