Quote Originally Posted by Leof
Quote Originally Posted by scotcher

Only diplomatic visas are affected in any way. Tourist visas, business visas, and visitor's visas are being issued as usual.
The politics say so, unfortunately the travel agents say the opposite and the tourists too. The whole process of geting visa got difficulties.
Or the Russian press and TV news shows say that the travel agents and the tourists say so, perhaps?

I call shanninigans. The British government has absolutely nothing to gain and lots to lose by making it more difficult for tourists and businessmen to come to the UK, and they have no history of ever having made it more difficult for the citizens of a country to aquire a visa just because relations with that country deteriorated, even when the falling-out was a lot worse than the one we're talking about here. That they would be able do it secretly is just laughable.

Don't believe everything you hear on the TV