Riyadh’s J1 visa issuance rate

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Before COVID, Riyadh issued 78 J1 visas in an average May. This May, they issued 568. It seems like Riyadh 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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