Manila’s J2 visa issuance rate

Spouse or child of exchange visitor
Before COVID, Manila issued 70 J2 visas in an average August. This August, they issued 204. It seems like Manila 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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