Виза в Россию для иностранцев: необходимые документы для получения, правила безвизового въезда для жителей СНГ. Виза в Россию

Let’s see how to do this

2.2.1. We start with choosing citizenship and type of visa. After that you will immediately see the price of the invitation.

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2.2.2. In the next step you will proceed to completing the application form. You should choose the multiplicity of visa, enter name and passport data, as well as the dates of the trip and the cities to visit.

Also tick the box next to only if you need it - this item is optional. You can read about health insurance further, fill in the contact information form and click "Go to Payment".

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2.2.3. You will be taken to the payment page. You can pay the invitation using the Bank card , with the PayPal or contact us to make a payment in offline . Decide on the method and click "Choose".

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2.2.4. Enter the card information into a secure form and with one click "Pay" pay both the invitation and travel insurance for the trip.

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2.2.5. After this simple procedure, you can immediately download the invitation from the appeared window. Also, a copy of the invitation will be sent to your e-mail that you entered when placing the order.

If you also ordered a health insurance, then the file with a health insurance will come to your email during business hours from Monday to Friday within an hour after payment.

(IMPORTANT! If you have already ticked "I need Medical insurance policy for visa to Russia" , in the form of an invitation letter, then you do not need to register it again.) This item is intended for those readers who purchase insurance separately from the invitation.)

ATTENTION ! If you travel a lot, you may already have medical insurance to travel abroad and you do not need to get a new one. However, you should make sure that it is valid for Russia and that the insurance company issued you a certificate stating that the insurance covers the entire territory of the Russian Federation.

To obtain a visa to Russia, it is necessary to give in to a Consulate of the Russian Federation (or a Visa Centre) a travel insurance policy that includes repatriation expenses for medical reasons, emergency medical care and / or emergency hospitalization for the entire period of stay in Russia.

You can purchase such insurance in the insurance companies authorized and registered with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

You can also purchase the insurance through the Visa Application Centre of the Russian Federation, but it will be more expensive and cover a smaller number of services (basic insurance including repatriation and medical assistance will cost approximately 22 $ / 20 € . You will need to contact the Visa Centre, to ask them to send you a questionnaire which you will have to fill in, scan and send back, wherein you will have to pay for this service through the bank.

How to apply for a health insurance?

The simplest, cheapest and fastest option will be a self-registration for insurance online . It will cost about 17 $ / 16 € (for a 10 days trip) and you will receive your insurance immediately by email. It will need to be printed, signed and submitted along with the rest of the documents.

Let’s see how to do this

2.3.1. Select the multiplicity of visa, the period of stay in Russia, enter the name, passport data and contact addresses and phone numbers

Agree to the terms of use and proceed to payment

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2.3.2. Choose how you want to pay for the purchase, and then make payment in a secure form.

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2.3.3. After payment, you will see a message stating that our managers will contact you during the working day.

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2.3.4. The insurance file will be emailed to you within an hour during business hours from Monday to Friday .

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NOTE : If you plan to travel a lot during the year (to Russia or other tourist destinations), perhaps you should arrange an annual medical travel insurance. The cost of such insurance is approximately 190 $ / 162 € and it is valid for 1 year. There you can also insure risks of trip cancellations, get insurance for the Schengen visa, student insurance, etc.

Once you have all the information about the dates of arrival and departure, a valid passport, travel insurance and letter of invitation, you can finally fill in the visa application form.

How to apply for a visa to Russia?

Let"s consider in more detail how to step-by-step fill in a visa application form

2.4.1. When you go to the site, select your country and the language , which will be convenient for you to fill in the fom. Confirm that you have read the preliminary information by ticking it. And, finally, click on "Complete new application form".

The form will be displayed in English, but you can choose any language.

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It is not necessary to fill in the form right away. You can finish the process another time, but be sure to write down the code for your application . It is important in order to access the form again. You will also need to provide your last name and the answer to a security question. If you have lost the code, the form will have to be filled in again. Click "Sumbit"

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If you bought an invitation on our website - GoingRus, you can use the assistant to fill visa application forms . In the interface of downloading invitation on the right side of the button "Download Invitation" you can see a button "Show data for the visa application form". Click it to display the fill assistant.

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2.4.2. The most important paragraph . First you need to fill in the information in the section "Information on the required visa":

• Nationality
• Have you ever had the citizenship of Russia or a country of the former USSR
• Purpose of visit and type of visa. It is required to specify TOURISM
• Number of entries requested is single or double. Specify as many as you had specified when received the invitation
• Dates of the trip. It is necessary to specify the date of entry (arrival to Russia) and departure. It is necessary to enter and leave Russia during this period. The dates indicated in the form must match the dates in the invitation and insurance (or at least be included into these days). If you specify "from 10 to 20 August" in the "Trip dates" section, and the invitation (or insurance) will be "from 11 to 20 August", you will not receive the documents. However, if the invitation (or insurance) indicates the period from August 12 to August 19, then there will be no problems.

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2.4.3. On the next screen, you will need to enter your personal data, as it is indicated in your passport:

• Surname
• Have you been registered under other names, surnames, etc.
• Date of Birth
• Place of Birth
• Whether you were born in Russia

Fill in the form in capital letters, without using diacritical marks , do not use dots, commas and wavy lines - for example, the Spanish letter Ñ will be replaced by the system on N. In the screenshot you can see the filled in data.

Once you filled in this information, click "Next"

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2.4.4. Enter your passport details on the next screen

• Passport number - a line written on all pages of your passport
• Date of issue of the passport
• Date of expiry of the passport

Once you filled in this information, click "Next"

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2.4.5. The most important paragraph. In the travel details section, you need to specify the following information from your visa support

• Name of the tourist company. In our case: OSTWEST.COM
• The address of the company. In our case: 191036, Saint- Petersburg, 10, Ligovsky Prospect (office 2133)
• Reference number. In our case: 009893
• Confirmation code. In our case: 63789

Then you must also specify information about the route - the cities you will visit. The route is specified in the invitation . In our case:

1. Saint-Petersburg
2. Moscow

Next you must click "Yes" n the paragraph with the question "Do you Plan to stay anywhere during your travel in Russia?" and fill in the data about all the hotels in each city stay:

1. The name of the hotel (to enter the data you need without the quotation marks, and hyphens);
2. Its addres;
3. and phone

Once you filled in this information, click "Next"

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The same data you can see in the invitation:

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Print out the application form, put the date of completion, do not forget to sign it and stick the original passport size (3x4 cm) photo (copies are not accepted). It must be recent, coloured, in full face and you should not have any sunglasses or headgear on it .

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If you are applying for a visa through the Russian Visa Application Centre, you can make a payment by bank transfer (attach payment confirmation to the submitted documents) or in the centre itself in cash or by card. You could find the payment details on the site of a specific visa centre.

If you decided to apply for a visa at a , you can pay by card or at a branch of a bank on a receipt issued by the Consulate. Cash for payments are not accepted.

After payment, you will only have to bring all the documents to the place where you are going to apply for a visa. If you want to do this through a courier service, then this service is available only at the Visa Centre of the Russian Federation. At a Consulate, you cannot obtain a visa without your personal attendance. To do this, you need to contact the centre by phone or e-mail, in addition, you can use the services of another courier service, not related to the Visa Centre.

IMPORTANT: In order to avoid any bureaucratic delays, in case anyone asks you “What is the purpose of your trip to Russia?” you MUST say that is "ТOURISM - a tourist company is dealing with the trip" . You should not mention any other purpose , such as visiting relatives, for example, even if it is you real purpose.

The procedure for issuing a standard visa takes about 10 calendar days from the date of sending the documents. You can obtain an urgent visa within 24 hours without taking into account the day when the documents were submitted. If you are applying for a visa through a courier service, it will take a little longer.

The visa centre of the Russian Federation will notify you via e-mail about issuing a visa. We recommend that you check the correctness of all the completed data.

Finally a few words about applying for a visa

If you are planning to obtain a visa to Russia and want to do it carefree and without hassle, use the services of a Visa centre. If you need for example a business visa and you want to save money, contact a Consulate of the Russian Embassy.

If you have a valid passport, the rest of the documents required for the procedure of obtaining a visa can be received through the Internet on your own easily and without overpayments within an hour:

• Letter of invitation for 15 $ / 13 €
• Travel insurance for 1.1 $ / 1 € per day - just tick a “I would like to have insurance“ form
• Fill in the visa application form for free at: https://visa.kdmid.ru/petitionchoice.aspx , and then to print it out, sign it and stick a standard passport size photo.
• Attach a payment confirmation if you pay by bank transfer.

After all documents are ready, bring them to the place of applying in person or through the delivery service. Within approximately 10 days you will successfully obtain a visa for a trip to Russia.

The process of registration does not end with obtaining of a visa. Remember that on arrival to Russia you need to perform two additional procedures : fill in the migration card and register for . The first document is usually completed by a passport control officer at the border, and the second by a hotel employee, where you decided to stay.

During entire period of the trip, be sure to carry your passport with the migration card and the migration registration notice in case you are stopped on the street by a policeman (this might happen, though very seldom).

, by registering with the migration service of the Russian Federation within the first 7 days of arrival (excluding weekends and holidays). Until March 2011 it was necessary to register within 72 hours, but under the new law the term has been changed.

If you are staying in Russia less than 7 days you do not need to have any migration registration.

Why is temporary registration in Russia necessary?

The purpose of registration is to notify the immigration authorities of the place where you stayed, about your presence in Russia. You must register in each of the cities you are going to visit.

Registration is not your responsibility, it must be arranged for you by the hotel where you will stay, or the owner of the apartment in which you live.

If you have chosen a hotel accommodation, after your arrival, a hotel manage in charge should take care of your migration registration. You will be asked to give your passport with a visa and a migration card that you will receive at the border when entering the country.

If you do not live at a hotel, but in a private property, its owner has to register his/her guest at the FMS (Federal Migration Service) office or at the post office. It is not necessary to be present at registration, provide the owner of the property with a copy of the first page of your passport, your visa and the migration card.

It should be noted that some companies issue temporary registration for a fee.

Also, please keep in mind that when leaving the country, you do not need to have a migration registration notification with you, unlike the migration card.

You can see the notification on the displayed image. The foreigner will keep the lower part (under the dotted line).

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That"s all. We remind you that all personal data used in this article including names and passport numbers is made-up. The falsification of documents is a crime!

Any coincidences encountered in the text are accidental and cannot be considered plagiarism. Copying of this article is permitted only with reference to the author and to this site.

We are happy to answer any of your questions in the comments to this article!

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