Deripaska’s $212,694 U.S. Visa Quest Backed by Russian Minister
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sent a letter of support for Oleg Deripaska’s efforts to obtain a multiple-entry U.S. visa after the billionaire was denied direct access to the world’s largest economy.
The “persistent state of limbo” of Deripaska’s legal status in the U.S. “has become an impediment to the promotion of mutually advantageous contacts between the business communities of the two countries,” Lavrov said in a letter to the Endeavor Group, the lobbying firm Deripaska hired to help with his visa, according to according to a regulatory filing on the U.S. Department of Justice’s website.