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  • Vice President Joe Biden met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Munich on Saturday. AP/Photo Mattias Schrader

    Vice President Joe Biden met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Munich on Saturday, on the margins of the Munich Security Conference. Click on slide for a readout of this meeting

  • Secretary of State John Forbes Kerry (State Dept.)

    On February 1, 2013, John Forbes Kerry was sworn in as the 68th Secretary of State of the United States. He will address employees upon his arrival at the State Department on Monday, February 4 at 9:00 a.m.

  • Red Banner over the central plaza of Stalingrad in 1943.Source Wikipedia

    President Frankiln D. Roosevelt on this victory: "[T]he decisive result which all Americans are celebrating today will remain one of the proudest chapters in this war of the peoples united against Nazism and its emulators." Click on slide to read more.

  • "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the U.S."

    "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the U.S."

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    Nonimmigrant Visa Section Head Bill Bistransky discusses visas in his interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets daily (in Russian).

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  • Kerry Offers View of U.S. Role in More Interconnected World

    Washington — The United States needs to assert a new role in the world to meet the challenge of a young generation seeking greater opportunities and their right to participate as individuals in their governance, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at his nomination hearing to be the next U.S. secretary of state.  

  • Important Notice for Diversity Visa (DV) 2012 Entrants (PDF - 7 KB)

    Successful entrants are encouraged to send in their required documents to the Kentucky Consular Center (KCC) immediately, so that an interview appointment at the appropriate U.S. Embassy or consulate can be scheduled before the program ends. In order for an appointment to be scheduled with either a U.S. Embassy or Consulate, entrants must first submit the Form DSP-122 and Form DS-230 to KCC. Embassies and consulates...  

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