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What to do if Moscow cannot register for a US visa

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Signing up for a compulsory American visa interview in Russia for a month is impossible. Now for the visa Russians go abroad and resort to the help of agencies, reports with the BBC.

At the end of July, the Russian Foreign Ministry demanded that, by 1 September, the United States more than doubled its embassy staff.

The consequences of this diplomatic quarrel are experienced by Russians who want to get a visa to the United States. The American side announced that due to a shortage of employees, it ceases to conduct mandatory visa interviews at consulates in Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg.

Thus, now those who apply for a US visa for the first time are forced to sign up only at the Moscow consulate. As a result, a queue formed for many months ahead in the American Embassy in Moscow.

Now, according to the testimony of many who wish, it is impossible to sign up for an interview in Moscow at all. If at the beginning of September it was possible to register at least for the end of November or December, now for a month now the site responds to applicants that there are no places.

One can whether apply for a visa in another country?

This is exactly what some Russians are doing now. For visas, they go to neighboring countries - Ukraine, Georgia and the Baltic countries. This is what Muscovite Valentin (name changed) did - he and his wife went to Kyiv.

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Usually, after the interview, the passport is returned within a few working days. Just a day later, Valentin and his wife received passports with new visas. But in rare cases, the embassy begins additional administrative processing, which can last up to 60 days - and then you will have to sit in a foreign country for two months until your passport is returned from the embassy.

Evgeniya traveled from Moscow to Latvia specifically for a visa, and at the same time stayed in Riga for the weekend. At the Latvian consulate you can have an interview in Russian - almost everywhere else you need to be prepared for an interview in English.

In the USA, Evgenia was going to go to the congress of the Association of Slavists, but in the end she would have to participate in it via Skype - she was denied a visa.

Is traveling for a visa expensive?

Such trips are expensive. Valentine and his wife spent 20 thousand rubles (almost $ 345) only on the road to Kiev and back.

Zhenya from Moscow spent 45 thousand rubles (almost $ 780) to get a visa. The price includes tickets to Tbilisi and back, a hotel, as well as the services of an agency that accompanies such travelers for visas.

Georgia is one of the cheapest destinations in the near abroad, entry is visa-free and prices are low, explains Evgeniy. They promised to return his passport 4-5 working days after the interview, but he stayed in Georgia for ten, combining getting a visa with a vacation.

Agencies helping to get a visa existed even before the reduction of the US diplomatic mission. They helped people from those cities where there were no consulates, or those who were afraid not to cope with the English-language form on the official website for applying for a visa.

Agencies also pay for the consular fee, because they can only sign up for an interview after they have been paid, and for filing in Georgia, for example, the fee must be paid in a Georgian bank.

However, the agency is unlikely to take less than 5-7 thousand rubles ($ 80- $ 120), and you can easily do without it. To do this, you must either go to the country twice, or simply find a friend there who would be willing to go to a local bank and pay a fee.

Get a visa in a third country more difficult than in Russia?

It was possible to apply for a visa not in the country of citizenship before the collapse at the Moscow consulate. Russians leaving for the Russian cold in Indonesia and Thailand, students studying abroad, and in general Russians from all over the world have been receiving American visas for many years at local embassies.

True, more likely to get a visa from those who apply for it in their homeland.

“We recommend that applicants apply for a visa in their country of residence or the country of which they are a citizen, as it is easiest to demonstrate their ties to that country while in that country,” the official visa website states.

This is necessary for the American side to make sure that the tourist does not intend to stay in the United States illegally.

МIt is whether reload documents in another country?

If a person has already registered on the Russian version of the official Site to obtain visas, then in order to apply for a visa in another country - for example, in Ukraine - he needs to transfer his account from the Russian site to the Ukrainian one, and this can only be done by the site’s technical support.

Moreover, the consular fee paid in Russia will disappear, the money will not be returned. It is 160 dollars, it is a little more than 9 thousand rubles at the current rate.

And if you get a US visa again?

Those who get a US visa again, were in a better position. They can do this without an interview - simply submit the documents through a special office. Pony Express. Such offices are in 96 cities of Russia - however, in the congested consulate in Moscow, the record is already closed even for the delivery of documents.

However, you can sign up for submission to other cities - St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok. Documents can be sent to another city through the same office and in a week or two get a passport to the house with a courier.

Usually a US tourist visa is issued for three years. However, those who are going to go to another country for a visa need to bear in mind that because of this, in three years they will still have to go for an interview at the Russian consulate. Re-obtaining a visa without an interview only works if both visas are obtained in the same country.

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