Russians can not get visas approved in the last days of the US consulate in St. Petersburg

The Russians, who approved American visas in the last days of the US Consulate in St. Petersburg, eventually got their passports back without a visa. About this in exclusive comments ForumDaily told a resident of Moscow George.

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Due to the busy schedule of the embassy in Moscow, he decided to apply in St. Petersburg. The interview was scheduled for March 29 - just that day they announced the closure of the consulate general in St. Petersburg.

According to the results of the interview, George was approved for the visa, but in the passport, which he received in Moscow a few days later, there was no visa. As he was explained, the consulate general in St. Petersburg physically did not have time to print the visas. At the moment, George has requested information from the Moscow embassy about what he needs to do next, but he hasn’t received a reply yet.

Recall 29 March, Russia announced that withdraws consent to the work of the consulate in St. Petersburg and sends 60 American diplomats.

26 March 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, Wash., and in response to Russia's use of military-type chemical weapons in Britain.

The former GRU officer Sergey Skripal and his daughter Julia were found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury March 4. They were taken to the hospital in critical condition, they are still in a coma, doctors estimate their condition as consistently severe. The police found that they were poisoned by a nerve agent. About 20 people were poisoned, including the policeman who first visited the scene and the house of Skripal. On the fact of poisoning a case of attempted murder.

In Russia, Skripal in 2006 year was convicted of espionage in favor of British intelligence MI6. In 2010, he was exchanged for Russian intelligence agents uncovered in the United States.

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 diplomatic mission in the United States.

In response to this, the US Embassy in Russia suspended the issuance of non-immigrant visas August 23 to September 1 2017. The issuance of renewed 1 September, but only in Moscow (before a visa could also be obtained in the consulate general in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok).

In addition, in response The United States decided to close the Russian Consulate General in San Francisco and some sales offices in Washington and New York.

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