Way to Russia Talk Lounge Q&A Forum - Recent questions tagged dual-citizenship

Will Russia allow me to have Tri-citizenship?

Thu, 03 Mar 2016 14:18:31 +0000

I am an American male and I have dual citizenship to two countries. I have passport to both countries. USA is my homeland and Iran(because my birth father is from Iran)

I have always wanted to live in Russia for a long time and it has been 5-6 years overdue (Either the city of Moscow or St Petersburg). I have a big passion for the culture, and I want to have a fresh start by going to school there and I can work as an English teacher until I am able to open up an establishment in Russia.

My main questions are:

1. I want to know how much it will cost for me to move to Russia and I want to know how I can immigrate there without much problems.

2. If I wanted to obtain permanent residence and get Russian citizenship, will I have to surrender my two passports to USA & Iran?

I read somewhere that if you want to become a full russian citizen, you have to give up your original citizenship and you must know fluent russian(that is why I am taking the time to learn russian at my own pace). will marrying a russian woman give me a little more leeway to not surrendering my citizenship to 2 other countries? will Russia allow me to be a tri-citizen?

I would like to know for more information and information that is to the best of your knowledge. thank you

Living in the US with Belgian passport need Russian visa

Mon, 20 Jul 2015 22:39:03 +0000

Hello,
My children and myself will be traveling to Europe and to Russia. We went to apply for Russian visa with Belgium passports and they said no, we had to use our USA passports. USA passports are more expensive, and since we will be going to Belgium?Brussels we thought of applying there. Can you recommend us a travel agent that can help us there? Would have to be a rush service. Thanks

Visa process for a Canadian citizen travelling with a Russian dual-citizen, staying in private accomodations

Mon, 11 May 2015 10:18:16 +0000

(Apologies in advance if I am repetitive to other questions asked here, I couldn't find an answer to my specific questions).

I am dual citizen of Canada and Russia. I will be travelling with both documents and will not be getting a visa as my Russian passport is up to date and still valid. I am taking my bf, a Canadian citizen, with me, for 2 weeks. Currently, my dad lives in St. Petersburg and we are supposed to stay with him. We wanted to get my bf a private visa, however after my Dad started the process he realized that it was a huge nightmare. Instead, we are now trying to complete the process by getting my bf a tourist visa, which requires confirmation from a recognized tourist hotel.

At first, we were going to book a hotel with free cancellation to get the visa and then cancel before the flight - however we were nervous that we would be questioned about it (i.e. they would know it was cancelled) and that we would not be registered by the booked hotel as we would not plan to actually stay there and then raise red flags on the way out.

That being said, after searching online I came across this website. Everything seems straight forward but I need to confirm:

1) I can use the tourist visa invitation process outlined on this site to get a confirmed hotel for my bf's visa, but is it okay that I will not be on that invitation letter with him?
2) Upon entry into Russia, at customs, my experience with other travel is that they will ask you where you are staying to confirm your itinerary - do both him and I continue to confirm the hotel written on the invitation letter? Or does he only write that hotel and I write my dad's place? Will it not look weird that we're travelling together and I plan to stay with my dad while he plans to stay at a hotel? Should we just both say we're staying at that hotel?
3) After getting through customs, since we are not planning to stay in the hotel outlined in the invitation letter, and go to my dad's place instead, is it okay that the the visa registration is completed by my father even though our invitation letter states a specific hotel name that was seen by customs upon entry?
4) Once registered by my dad and it is time to leave - when customs inspects our papers and asks us questions - do we say that we ended up staying with my father and that he registered my bf's stay? Will they question why we booked a hotel but did not stay there?

As you can see - there a lot of uncertainties for me and it's making me stressed out. I don't want to put my bf in a bad situation.

Appreciate your help!

Dual citizenship and Russian visa

Thu, 05 Mar 2015 22:01:10 +0000

Hello everyone,
I am russian citizen, was born in Russia and still have my parents in Moscow. In addition to that, when I moved with my wife to New York I did not drop my housing record (propiska) in Moscow, so for russian authorities I am considered "temporarily away from Russia". Recently I have received US citizenship based on refuge status. Now I feel totaly lost, because I need to travel to Russia often and I don't know what kind of visa I need to get or, I don't need any visa since I have both US and Russian passports. As I understand I can use russian passport to enter and leave Russia, but how russian and US authorities will react on the fact that I don't have a visa?
It would be very helpful if you can clarify this for me.