The US Department of Labor said the agency would not issue temporary H-2B visas until February 20, 2018 due to an unprecedented number of applications. As a result, the United States Immigration Service (USCIS) may receive more H-2B applications than the number of H-2B visas in the second ...
St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok have resumed issuing non-immigrant US visas. This is stated on the website of the US Embassy and Consulate in Russia. According to the department, as of December 11, United States Consulates General began conducting a limited number of interviews. "We can't continue...
Russia's Foreign Ministry said the United States had deliberately cut the number of visa-issuing staff at its consulates general in Russia to "provoke public discontent." This is stated in a statement from the department's press service. “The American Embassy is complaining about a lack of staff that has been laid off...
The United States is massively delaying the issuance of visas for the crews of the Russian Aeroflot airline flying to the country. This was reported by the Russian Foreign Ministry. “It has come to a massive delay in issuing visas for Aeroflot crews operating regular flights to the United States, which is fraught with disruption and violates ...
On December 11, the US Consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok will resume limited interviews for nonimmigrant visas. This was reported on the website of the Embassy and Consulate of the Russian Federation. The US Embassy in Moscow will also continue to conduct interviews for immigration, diversification and ...
In March, residents of Dushanbe, Shodiyor Narkulov and Mohira Rakhimova, posed as businessmen and tried to deceive the staff of the American embassy. To facilitate the procedure for obtaining an American visa, they put fake stamps of the border posts of Azerbaijan, Belarus and the Dushanbe checkpoint in their passports, said ...
In six months, the number of American nonimmigrant visas issued to Russian citizens fell by 54%. According to the US State Department, Russians received 8,7 visas in October, compared with 18,7 visas in May, Gazeta.ru reports. The US Embassy in Moscow explained the decline in ...
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has asked technology companies to create a system that would track US visa holders in the US. This was reported by the Voice of America, with reference to the publication Pro Publica. Law enforcement officers are interested in algorithms that assessed...
On September 1, the United States, at the request of the Russian Foreign Ministry, reduced the number of personnel in the embassy and consulates in Russia. A direct consequence of the cuts was the actual tightening of the visa regime for Russians: residents of the regions were deprived of the opportunity to obtain an American visa at the nearest consulate, and the terms for issuing visas in Moscow increased dramatically. Many Russians now ...
Due to diplomatic wars, the deadline for scheduling an interview for a US visa has increased to 53 calendar days, and to obtain a tourist visa, you need to wait 85 days. Journalist Alya Zivere told Sravn.ru how she got a visa in another country in just 3 days. ...