diff --git a/Bio/SeqIO/SeqXmlIO.py b/Bio/SeqIO/SeqXmlIO.py
index 8fe75ebb728..6758317d05f 100644
--- a/Bio/SeqIO/SeqXmlIO.py
+++ b/Bio/SeqIO/SeqXmlIO.py
@@ -498,11 +498,12 @@ def iterate(self, handle):
             if not text:
                 break
             parser.feed(text)
+        # Closing the parser ensures that all XML data fed into it are processed
+        parser.close()
         # We have reached the end of the XML file;
         # send out the remaining records
         yield from records
         records.clear()
-        parser.close()
 
 
 class SeqXmlWriter(SequenceWriter):