Citizens of the Russian Federation wishing to obtain an immigration visa to the United States must send an application to the American Embassy in Warsaw in connection with the suspension of processing of the corresponding appeals in the diplomatic missions of the United States in Russia. This follows from the document posted on the agency's website.

In it, applicants from the Russian Federation are classified as homeless. In this category, Washington usually classifies immigrant visa applicants from those countries where the United States does not have a consular mission, as well as from countries in which, due to an unstable political or security situation, the number of American consular staff is limited and they cannot process relevant applications for obtaining visas. Thus, the word "homeless" does not mean the applicant's "absence of home", but the absence in the country of which he is a citizen of an American diplomatic mission that provides services for issuing immigrant visas.

At the moment, in addition to Russians, the homeless category includes citizens of Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, Libya, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen.