With December 11, the U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok will resume interviews for nonimmigrant visas to a limited extent.
This was reported on the official website of the U.S. Embassy in the Russian Federation.
«We want the Russians had the opportunity to travel to the US, to get acquainted with our culture to study in our universities and do business with American partners», — said the U.S. Ambassador to Russia John huntsman. «We believe that cooperation between our Nations and U.S.-Russian business relations are the basis for the stability of bilateral relations.»
However, according to Huntsman, the Consulate will not be able to resume issuing visas «to the extent that we have supported to unreasonable decisions of the government of the Russian Federation to significantly reduce the number of staff of the U.S. Embassy and our three consulates». «We continue to carry out their work with a significantly reduced staff, which inevitably reduced the volume of visa processing services», — said the Ambassador.
Additionally, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow will also continue to conduct interviews on immigration, diversity and non-immigrant visas to a limited extent.
