Melbourne’s H1B visa issuance rate

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Before COVID, Melbourne issued 11.7 H1B visas in an average October. This October, they issued 16. It seems like Melbourne 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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