New US-Russia Visa Regime

[Josh Wilson]

Seelangers, 

 

As many on this list are obviously interested in keeping up on visa news, I
thought I would share this little article on how the new US-Russia Visa
Regime is currently set to work (keep in mind that, in practice, as these
things are implemented, they are often complicated a bit as they settle into
the bureaucracy). 

 

http://www.acg.ru/english/visa_regime_between_russia_and_usa_is_relaxed

 

Note that this applies to business, private, humanitarian, and tourist
visas. I believe that academic (uni-affiliated) visas will probably still be
issued as 3-month, single entry with the possibility of then converting to
multi-entry in-country and extended for up to a year. 

 

This will make long-term stays in the country much more accessible, though,
to everyone, including researchers. It used to be that you could be 90 days
in, and then had to leave (officially for 90 days, but there were/are ways
around that). 

 

Now, apparently, Americans will be able to be in for 6 months and then cross
the border and return again.

 

Josh Wilson
Assistant Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor in Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
SRAS.org 
jwilson at sras.org

 


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