Changes to Student Visa requirements

[Dustin Hosseini]

Well this is terrible news for everyone.  Having to go through a visa agency
is just a hassle and costs much more money.  I looked at a visa agency in
the Houston area, and the cost for a single entry business visa processed in
the slowest amount of time is going to cost at least $200+.  

As far as apostilles, these are done through the your state's Secretary of
State Office.  For Vermont, an apostille is about $2 per document, and the
turn around time is pretty quick; you can of course mail documents to be
apostilled, but it all depends on your own individual state.  

Here are a few Sec of State offices' websites:
www.sos.state.tx.us
www.sos.state.md.us
www.secstate.wa.gov
www.sos.state.mn.us
www.michigan.gov/sos
www.sos.ca.gov

I wonder what the Bush administration did in regards to immigration rules to
make Russia change its visa rules for Americans.  Or, perhaps, some
idiot-bureaucrat in the Russian government thought that it'd be better to
use middlemen; someone's getting a kickback.  Using middlemen is a sick, sad
way of life here in Moscow, at least ...  

Best,

DH

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