“Of course, we have serious visa problems, concerning both the extension of visas for existing employees who, when their visa expires, cannot leave the country, even if they have serious humanitarian reasons for this, relatively speaking, the death of close relatives,” TASS quoted Nebenzi as saying.
In December, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Washington artificially limits the issuance of non-immigrant visas to Russians in order to "bargain" for itself unilateral concessions.
Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said that 55 employees of Russian diplomatic missions will have to leave the United States in 2022 at the request of the American side.