As of November 3, 2017, the three United States consulates located throughout Russia have resumed the issuance of visas. However, not all Russian citizens will be able to receive travel documents. Only those tourist visa applicants that do not need to have an interview are able to receive their visa at American diplomatic missions outside of Moscow. The U.S. Embassy announced in August that it would resume holding interviews as of September 1 in Moscow; however, no interviews have actually been scheduled.

According to Maria Olson, the U.S. Embassy’s press secretary, the issuance of American visas in cases when applicants don’t need to have an interview takes place at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, as well as at the U.S. Consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Vladivostok.

Ordinarily, only repeat tourist visa applicants do not have to go through an interview process. As such, first time applicants are still unable to receive U.S. entry visas. Also, it remains unclear as to when the Russian citizens that initiated, yet did not complete, their applications before the visa issuance suspension in August would actually be interviewed. According to visa section head Evgeny Lukashin, the majority of these applications have in all probability been cancelled.