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goDutch
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| dutchdragon wrote: | | We had a positive experience with the new procedure. |
Did you register a business visa? |
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dutchdragon
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Did you register a business visa? |
No, a private visa. |
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goDutch
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| dutchdragon wrote: | | No, a private visa. |
Right, private visas (as well as tourist visas) are much easier to register now. However, it is very difficult to get a private invitation, except for the case when you have a close relative in Russia. It looks like the law of conservaton of difficulties. Tourist and business invitations need less efforts. The problem with a tourist invitation is that they can refuse to issue the visa before you pay a hotel for the whole period of stay. At least, this is what the Russian consulate in the Netherlands requires. And business visas might be difficult to register.
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cargo3
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:44 am Post subject: New 2008 regulations!? |
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hello,
My boyfriend is living in Moscow and I want to go back for another year. However, it seems that in December, rumours were saying that very soon there won`t be any business visas given out anymore, nor 6 month visas. The only visas which will be available will be for 3 months, with renewal only 3 months after going out of Russia (!!!! This is ridiculous???). Is this true?? Please reply asap... |
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goDutch
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:40 pm Post subject: Re: New 2008 regulations!? |
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| cargo3 wrote: | rumours were saying that very soon there won`t be any business visas given out anymore
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No one is going to cancel business visas. I think you confuse it with the new "90/180" rule, which applies currently to EU citizens. Check this thread:
http://www.waytorussia.net/TalkLounge/quote-70711.html&highlight=#70711 |
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cargo3
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| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject: Re: New 2008 regulations!? |
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Ok... this is strange! My b-friend's flatmate is American and she has a Business Visa. But now (because of some new law) she can't work anymore in Russia with a business visa. She has to go back to the States and get a working visa through her agency for whom she works for in Moscow. I'm Canadian and lived in Moscow for a year 2006-07 and worked there only with a Business visa. Now, it seems that the business visa won't be available anymore and if you want to stay there for a year, you need a working visa! Could it be any more complicated? Thanks for answering me (someone, anyone)!
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goDutch
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| Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject: Re: New 2008 regulations!? |
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| cargo3 wrote: |
Now, it seems that the business visa won't be available anymore and if you want to stay there for a year, you need a working visa! Could it be any more complicated?
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Yes, it is complicated. However, it does not mean that business visas will not be available. Usually, you need a working visa if you want to live and work in a foreign country. Business visas exist for different purposes. In Europe is like that, and I guess in USA and Canada too. |
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cargo3
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:55 am Post subject: Re: New 2008 regulations!? |
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| goDutch wrote: | | cargo3 wrote: |
Now, it seems that the business visa won't be available anymore and if you want to stay there for a year, you need a working visa! Could it be any more complicated?
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Yes, it is complicated. However, it does not mean that business visas will not be available. Usually, you need a working visa if you want to live and work in a foreign country. Business visas exist for different purposes. In Europe is like that, and I guess in USA and Canada too. |
I understand how work visas work... The point I'm trying to make is when I was in Moscow a year ago, business visas were enough to work say as an English teacher. Now, it seems not to be so. Also, there seemed to have had a review on the business visa, and some close expat and Russian friends of mine have mentioned that the business visa might not be available anymore in a near future (according to their own reviews). But, I see that, according to you there shouldn't be a problem for me to ask for another business visa through Waytorussia for May '08.
Thank you "goDutch"!!! |
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GregS
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I am going to Irkutsk first week of September, and leaving first week in December. I am using a business visa. I got my invite from the WTR site (well, it's being processed now) from:
INVITATION FROM: "Dizar Company"
29, Leninsky pr., bld.2, office 605
My questions are this. When I get to Irkutsk, I will be staying with my fiance who lives there. Will she be the one to do my registration? Or do I need to contact this company to handle it?
Also, I have not seen here, maybe I just missed it... but how much am I going to have to pay to register the visa, if anything? Curious, because except for very little money on me (maybe $50 USD), I won't have any money until after I have been there for about 2 weeks... Then my Visa card will be loaded by my bank here.. I hate traveling with no emergency money, but this is just how it has to be right now.
Thanks for any help.. I am so paranoid I will do something wrong... Still praying I don't get denied the VISA from the Russian embassy... Not sure why I would...but that is how my luck runs sometimes.. LOL |
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David T
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hi Greg,
don't worry, it's not so complicated.
I stood at my girlfriend in Tomsk with a business visa and I got my invitation from WTR.
On the plane, just write on the immigration card the company's name which is on your invitation.
Before you arrive, ask your fiance to go to local OVIR and get the registration form. Then you can fill it together, it takes 10 min. Then go together to local OVIR (within 3 business days) with copies of your passport, your visa and your immagration card (important to have copies of all documents). The registration takes 10 min, and in Tomsk, I didn't have to pay anything for this. If you don't move to another city, you're fine for your whole stay. |
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GregS
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GREAT!!! Thanks very much David!!! I will ask her tonight to go get that.. I know the office isn't far from her work.
hehe, what really sucks... her employer told her yesterday, they are sending her on a business trip that should take 10-12 days at the end of August... We don't even know if she will be home when I get there. 
Course, I just told her that I guess my first kisses would have to be with her sister and girlfriend that both live with her. LOL |
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GregS
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Hmm.. the office I was thinking of isn't the office for this.. I am guessing maybe the Post Office in Irkutsk will have this form? I thought I saw that on another site..
Does anyone here have a copy of it? I could just send her a copy and then she can print it out herself... Is that even allowed? |
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manjunja
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject: registration office holidays |
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Hello everybody, hope you're well.
I've been trying to find a post I read earlier this year but no success yet (not sure which site it was on either) so I'm posting a similar question myself.
I thought I read in one of the replies that there is a holiday over the christmas/new year period in Russia when no visa registration would be possible so if someone was visiting just during that time they did not need to register -just show anyone stopping them when they arrived and were due to depart so it was obvious it wasn't possible.
In my case I want to be in Moscow and was wondering the exact dates of this office holiday?
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hope25
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| David T wrote: | hi Greg,
don't worry, it's not so complicated.
I stood at my girlfriend in Tomsk with a business visa and I got my invitation from WTR.
On the plane, just write on the immigration card the company's name which is on your invitation.
Before you arrive, ask your fiance to go to local OVIR and get the registration form. Then you can fill it together, it takes 10 min. Then go together to local OVIR (within 3 business days) with copies of your passport, your visa and your immagration card (important to have copies of all documents). The registration takes 10 min, and in Tomsk, I didn't have to pay anything for this. If you don't move to another city, you're fine for your whole stay. |
David, did you stay at a hotel? Reason i ask is because from what i read business visa are only accepted from hotels or companies that are hosting you. I'll be staying with my girl friend for less than two months and business seems like the only option, however, i am uncertain after arriving and registering my visa they will accept a business visa. Please, any help would be appreciated. Thanks |
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David T
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| no I stood at her apartment, and as I wrote, I had absolutely no problem with registration, and when I left Russia, they didn't ask anything at the aiport |
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