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floflo · Just Starting Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 2

Hi,

we're going to mongolia by train through russia and we stop in moscow one night and one day; I've read in your talk lounge and I had the unformal confirmation that we do not need to register our visa.
However, I'd like to take a piece of the russian law to show to the customs in case of arguing with police; but the problem is the law is very ambiguous about the visa registration and it's nowhere written that the registration is not needed when there is no residence (= from 3 days in one place). The law 115-FZ says:
Article 25. Relief of Foreign Citizens of Registration
2) foreign citizens who have entered the Russian Federation for a term of not more than three days

but we'll be crossing the country for 6 days...
Does the russian law state that the residence in russia is counted from 3 days at the place of stay?

Thank you very much for your help

Florence

camarks · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:09 am Post subject:

The Russian authorites will know the law; you won't need to explain it to them. As I understand it, your train ticket serves as your registration. Keep it with your passport when you leave and you won't have any problems.

floflo · Just Starting Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 2

Yes the plane and train tickets prove we're saying only one night in Moscow.

Thank you