It became known how many US visas will be issued to Russians in 2019

The US Embassy and Consulates plan to issue up to 2019 thousands of visas in Russia in 200 year. The US diplomatic representation also reported that visa denials were about 10%.

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In 2019, up to 200 thousands of American visas will be issued in the Russian Federation. About this on Tuesday in Vladivostok, told reporters, Minister-visa adviser to the US Embassy in Moscow, Michael Yoder, writes TASS.

“We issued 250 thousand visas in 2016. We don't have statistics for 2018 yet, as it hasn't ended yet. But next year, I think, we will issue from 150 to 200 thousand visas throughout the country,” he said, noting that the reduction in the number of employees of the American diplomatic mission in Russia in 2017 did not affect the volume of work.

Visa denial rates are about 10%, Yoder said. “Typically, denials are due either to the applicants' previous travel history in America or to the fact that they cannot prove, as the law states, that they have natural family economic ties in their country of residence. These requirements are the same for everyone,” Yoder said.

23 August 2017 of the year in response to an order from Moscow to reduce the number of employees of the American diplomatic mission in Russia to 455 people in connection with Washington’s decision to expel the embassy and consulates of the Russian Federation from the Russian Federation in the Russian Federation stopped issuing non-immigrant visas.

September 1 this work was resumed at the embassy in Moscow, and December 11 in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok. In March, 2018, the US Consulate General in St. Petersburg was closed as a response to the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle.

How to speed up and facilitate the process of obtaining a visa, read in our material Instruction: how and where to get a US visa.

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