How long do they get an American visa in Russia?

After closing the consulate in St. Petersburg and reducing the number of American diplomats in Russia The waiting time for interviews for a US visa to the US diplomatic missions in this country began to grow rapidly.

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At the moment, according to the information US Department of State, expect an interview for a regular tourist visa at the US embassy in Moscow will have 300 days.

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The same situation is in the consulate in Yekaterinburg.

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Things are much better at the consulate in Vladivostok - you can get an interview there 50 days after submitting documents.

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The situation with student and other non-immigrant visas, other than tourist visas, is much better in Russia.

In Moscow, you will have to wait 3 days for an interview; in Yekaterinburg - 42 days; in Vladivostok, a student visa can be obtained within 50 hours, but other types of non-immigrant visas will have to wait for XNUMX days.

Due to the long waiting periods for visas to the US embassy in Russia, Russians are now go to file documents for visas to other countries, mainly to Ukraine, Georgia or Belarus.

There the waiting times are much shorter. For example, in Kyiv you need to wait 3 days for an interview, in Tbilisi - 45 days, and in Minsk - 22 days.

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You can check the waiting time for an interview at the American consulate or embassy you are interested in. link.

Recall 26 March, 2018, it became known that the US government made a decision send Russian diplomats from 60and also to close the Russian consulate in Seattle. Such a decision on the consulate was made due to its territorial proximity to the military base of submarines, the plant of the corporation Boeing in Seattle (Washington) and in response to Russia's use of military-type chemical weapons in the UK against the GRU ex-employee Sergey Skrypal and his daughter Yulia.

Russia's answer was closure of the US Consulate in St. Petersburg and the expulsion of 60 to American diplomats.

Mutual expulsion from the countries of American and Russian diplomats began on December 29 2016, when 44 th President of the USA Barack Obama signed a decree obliging Russian diplomats 35 to leave America. This document also closed their colleagues with access to two real estate properties in the states of New York and Maryland, which, according to American intelligence, were used by Russians for espionage.

In response, Russia banned the US Embassy from using a summer cottage in Serebryany Bor and storage facilities on Dorozhnaya Street in the south of Moscow. Russian authorities also expressed the need reducing the American embassy to xnumx people, to equalize their number with the number of employees in the Russian embassy in the United States.

In response to this, the US Embassy in Russia suspended the issuance of non-immigrant visas from 23 August to 1 September 2017, the issuance of visas was later resumed.

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