The U.S. Department of State (DOS) announced that as a result of diplomatic restrictions on the number U.S. personnel in Russia, all non-immigrant visa (NIV) operations at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and at all U.S. Consulates in Russia will be suspended, beginning August 23, 2017. U.S. Visa operations in Russia will resume on September 1, 2017, but on a greatly reduced scale. Interviews for NIV visas (including B, F, H-1B, J-1, L-1, O-1, and P visas) will only be conducted at the U.S. Embassy in … [Read more...]