In 'Zagranitsa' No. 43 (October 2003), the US State Department's instructions for participants of the American Green Card visa lottery (DV-2005) and answers to the most common questions were…
The "Academic Year" program, or in other words - school exchanges, has existed for more than half a century. And, as it is easy to guess, the palm of primacy belongs to America. This country was the…
Since 1992, the U.S. Department of State has annually provided finalists of the Edmund S. Muskie master's scholarship program with scholarships that enable them to pursue graduate education in the…
Finally, I managed to go to America through the Open World program, founded five years ago by the director of the US Library of Congress, a specialist in Russian culture and history, James…
Small and medium-sized hotels from New York to California have imposed smoking bans and are now cleaning, deodorizing and converting rooms formerly reserved for smokers. According to media reports…
Starting next summer, all airline passengers in the US will be divided by color. Hoping to create additional measures to protect airliners from terrorism, the US government is introducing a new…
The U.S. Census Bureau has recorded a real immigration boom in the country. According to Reuters, in just one past year, 1.6 million people came to the States, and by 2003 the number of immigrants…
Every year, about 5,000 students from various Russian universities went to the United States under the Work and Travel program. According to Izvestia.Ru, this year more than 7,000 Russian students…
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service reported that in 2002, 89,700 people tried to obtain refugee status in the United States. Among former Soviet Union countries, Ukraine (its citizens…
The mandatory screening of all airline passengers' baggage at US airports, introduced by the authorities in January of this year, has led to the widespread disappearance of items from suitcases and…
The biometric data of every Russian traveling to the US will be entered directly into their American visa. This was stated by acting US Consul General in Russia Susan Ebata, reports Interfax.
The procedure for issuing US visas for Ukrainians will not be changed as of August 1, since all necessary improvements to this procedure in Ukraine were already carried out in March of this year…