Denial of US visas to Russians

[Don Todaro]

You might also try the office of your local congressional representative.
I ran into a brick wall with the St. Petersburg consulate for quite awhile
in 1995 until I asked my rep. to get involved.


On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Julia Tulovsky wrote:

> This is exactly what happened to a friend of mine several years ago. He was
> lucky to have a supervisor here in the US who, in fury, called the consulate
> and managed to find a higher official. After their conversation my friend
> received a visa.
> In general the atmosphere in the US Consulates in Russia is very humiliating
> for visa applicants. They normally refuse parents to visit there children
> here and children to visit parents and  so on. It seams to be a matter of
> luck to receive a US visa, since they don't seam to have precise rules and
> everything depends on a particular consul's opinion.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc L. Greenberg" <mlg at KU.EDU>
> To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:02 AM
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Denial of US visas to Russians
>
>
> > Dear colleagues,
> >    In the last two weeks three students from Russia, who were to attend
> > graduate school at the University of Kansas this fall, were denied visas
> at
> > the St. Petersburg US Consulate. Two were destined for our department, one
> > for another department. All were turned down for allegedly seeking
> economic
> > advantage. This is unprecedented for us. Are other departments have
> similar
> > experiences?
> > Best regards,
> > Marc
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > Marc L. Greenberg
> > Chair and Professor
> > Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
> > University of Kansas - Wescoe Hall
> > 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 2133
> > Lawrence, KS 66045-7590, USA
> > Tel. and voice-mail: (785) 864-2349
> > Fax: (785) 864-4298; E-mail: mlg at ku.edu
> > http://www.ku.edu/~slavic/
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