Sao Paulo’s R1 visa issuance rate

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Before COVID, Sao Paulo issued 11 R1 visas in an average July. This July, they issued 21. It seems like Sao Paulo 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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