He was the first Soviet officer to radio-contact, meet, and shake hands with American forces under the command of General Bolling on the Elbe River, which Visaitov later joked about as "we came from Terek river to Elbe river". Both Bolling and Visaitov exchanged gifts: Visaitov gave Bolling his horse, and in return Bolling gave Visaitov a Willys MB utility vehicle. Visaitov received the Legion of Merit from US President Harry S. Truman. In 1946 Visaitov refused to participate in the plot to execute the Chechen dissident Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov who lived in Europe. He was deported to a prison settlement in the Kyrgyz SSR where many other deported Chechens and Ingush were located since 1944.