Baghdad’s DV1 visa issuance rate

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Before COVID, Baghdad issued 11.7 DV1 visas in an average August. This August, they issued 42. It seems like Baghdad 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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