[fertrevino]

I heard russian citizens were having troubles getting any kind of U.S. visa due to the political situation in the world. Does this situation still persists? Asking for a friend who still hasn't heard back for his tourist visa.

[proberts]

Yes, it still persists and can result in visa processing delays of more than one year.

[dang]

Crossing into personal attack will get you banned here, and taking threads into offtopic flamewar is not cool either.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

[DiggyJohnson]

No we don’t. They were presumably trying to avoid any sort of discussion of that type. What would you have preferred they say?