Seoul’s R1 visa issuance rate

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Before COVID, Seoul issued 15.7 R1 visas in an average July. This July, they issued 30. It seems like Seoul 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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