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US Consulates stop issuing Russian visas

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US Consulates stop issuing Russian visas


22.08.2017

Flickr/AK RockefellerUS authorities have taken decision to stop issuing visas of non-immigration type in Consulates located in Russia, RIA Novosti reports. US Embassy confirmed that they temporarily stopped issuing tourist and business visas all over the country. Diplomats have cleared out this is a countermeasure in response to the decision of Moscow about cutting down the number of US diplomats.

Visas can be received only in Moscow at the beginning of next month. It is not known yet when visa-issuing process will be resumed in other regions of Russia.

Embassy added that all appointed interviews are cancelled. Russians who already applied for visas will get to know how to be interviewed later. Moreover, they will have to pay a consulate fee again.

Besides, American Embassy will not issue visas to citizens of Belorussia any more.

It is worth reminding that more than 750 people working in US embassies and consulates have to leave Russia, so that the number of American and Russian employees is equal. US authorities will decide who exactly leaves. Russian Foreign Ministry has promised that any further US measures will surely be answered.

Russia has made a decision to take these measures after US stiffened anti-Russian sanctions. Besides, USA sent 35 Russian diplomats out of the country and banned exploiting several buildings by Russian embassy.

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