Istanbul’s H1B visa issuance rate

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Before COVID, Istanbul issued 34 H1B visas in an average August. This August, they issued 52. It seems like Istanbul 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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