Way to Russia Talk Lounge Q&A Forum - Recent questions tagged multi-entry

If I stay on cruise ship at St Petes for 3 days do I need single or multiple entry visa to visit each day?

Sun, 12 May 2019 15:19:59 +0000

I am not availing of the Cruise group visa and am NOT taking part in their group tours. Instead I intend to do my own individual (independent) tours during each of the three days that the cruise ship is in town. However, I will be returning and overnighting on the ship each evening. As such I intend to organise and acquire my entry visa(s) totally separate from the cruise company. Thank you.

Visa Support questions; arriving via cruise

Tue, 02 May 2017 19:26:23 +0000

We will be arriving in St. Petersburg on a cruise on July 18 and leaving on July 19. We don't want to do the organized tours through the cruise company. We want to get a tourist visa and see the city independently. We will sleep on the ship.

I assume we need a multiple entry visa and we will have to go through immigration each time we leave and return to the ship. Is this correct?

On the request form for visa support (for multiple entry), it is asking for travel dates (1st entry, 1st exit, 2nd entry, and 2nd exit). I'm a little unclear on how exactly I should do this. Should I complete it like this:

Entry 1: July 18
Exit 1: July 18
Entry 2: July 19
Exit 2: July 19

I am confused if this is the way to do it or a single entry would suffice simply with an Entry date of July 18 and exit date of July 19.

Visa questions for cruise ship arrival in St. Petersburg

Tue, 02 May 2017 19:24:53 +0000

If my passport expires in January 2019, can I apply for the multi entry tourist visa?

Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:01:16 +0000

We don't really plan to go back to Russia, but the single entry and multi entry are the same price. For a multi entry do I just make my date of exit 6 months before my passport expires?

Multi Entry Long Term Visa Australian

Sat, 21 Jan 2017 05:03:45 +0000

Hello there,

My name is Yanush and I am Australian citizen. I have been planning my Russia trip for a long time now and will be going there in August.
In short, I plan on starting in Vladivostok and go overland to Moscow. I want to try and get a multi entry visa because I plan on going into Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Abkhazia. All up spending roughly 3 months in the region. I have never been to Russia before, so no previous Russian visas, but I have been to Central Asia/Caucasia.

I read that my only option is to get a "3 Year Multiple Entry Business Visa". I have read some conflicting advice online and got a bit lost as to how I would go about doing this or if it was possible. For example, I read that it might not because I haven't been to Russia before..

If this can't be done, I think I will have to keep getting new Russian Tourist Visa in Mongolia and double entry one in Kazakhstan (for Abkhazia).

I would appreciate any help or information that someone has!

Thanks very much!

Yanush.

Long term visa

Wed, 16 Nov 2016 14:54:14 +0000

Hello Way To Russia, I hope you can help me, I have a unique situation. I am a Canadian female riding a motorcycle around the world on a self-guided route which includes Russia. The easiest visa I can apply for is a tourist visa, which only gives me 30 days in Russia. I need much more time than that as I am writing a book and documenting this trip in every aspect. I cannot ride my motorcycle safely across Russia in only 30 days. 60 days would be better, 90 days perfect.

I understand i can apply for a private visa and perhaps have some friends invite me but this takes time, paperwork and is costly.

I am not travelling into Russia until the summer of 2017 BUT I need to apply for the visa BEFORE leaving my country of citizenship, which is Canada. I am starting the second part of my world tour before Christmas, so I really need this visa BEFORE Christmas this year.

My thought was to try and apply for the Long-Term or Business visa. My question to you is, in your experience, how successful do you think I will be applying for a business visa? I have no contacts in Russia to do with business BUT I am including Russia in my book (I am a professional writer with many published stories). I can say I'm using the trip to RESEARCH my book and perhaps I can find a conference or two to attend in the country.

Do you think this will be a good enough reason to apply for the business visa or do you have doubts and can you suggest something, anything, that can get me more time in Russia and is something I can do quickly because of my time frame.

Thank you very much for your help and advice.

Heather
ridingfullcircle.com
ridingfullcircle@gmail.com

Overland multiple entry visa support - US Citizen auto

Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:03:46 +0000

Hello,

When applying for visa support, it says I can only get two entries, but the Russsian website says we are not limited to two.

What am I supposed to select on this website to get multiple entries for an auto-tourism visa?

Thanks.

Do I need a single or double entry visa?

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 07:56:19 +0000

We are travelling from Dubai to New York via Russia. We will be staying in Russia for 4 days, on the way to US. Going back, we will have a one hour layover in Moscow, enroute to Dubai. Do we need a double entry visa or single entry would do, since we will not be going out of the airport on or way back?

Can I get a double entry tourist visa to enter mongolia for 2 wks while traveling thru Russia

Sat, 02 Jul 2016 05:23:08 +0000

Entering Russia via Valdavostok then traveling thru to Ulan Ude. Want to do a side trip to Mongolia for 2 weeks before returning to Ulan Ude and onwards to Moscow. Can I get a double entry tourist visa or do I have to get a business visa?

Business Visa - providing details

Fri, 20 May 2016 05:15:34 +0000

Dear forum members and waytorussia team,

I am having difficulties with acquiring an invitation, support letter for a 12 month business visa.
While proceeding on this very website (12 months multi-entry; 21 working days; no telex; 139$ model) I am being asked about the company I am going to visit plus phone number and name of contact person.

However, I am not aware of these business opportunities yet. To explore them is what my business visa is meant for.

Does anyone here have some ideas or suggestions please.

My initial thoughts were that I will be provided with such company on the invitation. But seemingly not.

I kindly ask for an answer by some of the staff and/or forum members with knowledge.

Thank you in advance

Mutliple-Entry "Business" Visa, from UK - How do I go about this?

Wed, 06 Apr 2016 07:50:13 +0000

I am based in the UK, and visited Moscow over New Year's 2015-16, on a single-entry tourist visa. A Russian friend of mine is moving back there soon, and I would like to visit her whenever I can. Is it a relatively easy procedure to obtain a long-term multiple-entry business visa to do this? What steps would I need to take?

Thanks for your time.

Can I apply for a multy-entry business visa if I visited Russia before with a guided tour from a cruise ship? Thanks

Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:56:42 +0000

12 Month Business Multiple Entry visa for Canadian citizen

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 09:33:23 +0000

Hello!

I am curious about a few things:

1. How long is the processing time normally? I have already had 5 tourist visas to the same place I will be going with the business visa
2. At the moment, I don't have an actual company I have to work for. I am an English teacher and I am going there to study russian and figure out if there is a market for teaching english.
What should I put in the "Traveller Employment Information" section and/or the organization I will be working with. If worst comes to worst, I have a company will to take me on there.
3. Any other suggestions?

Thank you!!!

Business Visa for 12 months

Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:06:36 +0000

I am an American student who is planning to study in Russia, and my situation is a little complicated: I have been accepted to study the Russian language in Petersburg from June 20 to August 15 this summer, and I am waiting on the results for my application for an archival research grant in Russia from September to May afterwards--but I wont know if this application would be successful until April. If I receive the grant, I would like to travel to Russia for June 2016 to May 2017 (June to August-- language, September to May--research). But, if I don't receive the grant, then I would like to only go from June to August. And so I am trying to decide what I should apply for, in order for these options to work.

I was thinking that I should apply for a 12-month single or double entry visa (this will be my first trip to Russia, so I can't apply for a multi-entry visa, right?). But, I couldn't find that option on this site: http://waytorussia.net/Services/VisaSupport/Business.html?Submit=Get+It+Online+Now
If I can't apply for the 12 month, would it be possible to renew the visa or apply for two visas (the 3 month single-entry visa followed by a 12 month multi-entry?).

Essentially, this trip is actually two trips: language study (June to August), and research (September to May). The former is assured, and the latter is still up in the air.

Regarding invitations, are they to be provided by the institutions that I will affiliated with, or by the places where I will be living (landlord or hotel)?

If the institutions, should the language institute (for the first part of the trip (May to August) provide the invitation? The latter (research) will be at GIII (State Institute of Art History at St. Petersburg); should they provide the invitation?

Should I receive the research grant, I would like to do research in both Petersburg and in Moscow. Do I need separate invitations and do I need to register for both cities?

Sorry for the long and complicated message!
Thank you so much for your help!

EDIT: Since the chances of receiving the research grant are pretty slim would the following work:

Feb/Mar: Apply for VISA to study language and to do a little research from May to August (3 month business visa).

April: I will receive news of the research grant. If I receive it: apply for a 12 month business visa to do research in Petersburg and Moscow from September to May. If I don't receive the grant: I won't apply for the second visa.

I think that this is a better plan than what I mentioned above, do you think that this could work?

can I get a multi entry business Visa if my previous Russian Visa expired 2 years ago ?

Fri, 29 Jan 2016 05:16:08 +0000

I have previously lived in Russia on a 3 month business visa followed by a 1 year work visa, which expired about 2 years ago.
I am now living in Finland (I am a New Zealand passport holder) and want to visit my partner in Russia on a regular basis, and am thinking that a multiple entry 1 year business visa might be the most flexible way of getting a visa. Will this be possible based on the fact that I have previously had a Russian Visa ?
I do actually have my own New Zealand based business and would actually be interested in the possibility of finding some business opportunities in Russia anyway, but initially I would be travelling there to spend time with my partner.

Do I need invitations for a second visit on a multi-entry tourist visa

Mon, 11 Jan 2016 18:56:29 +0000

I have a Russian visa valid until April 2017. When I visited Russia in 2014 I had to have an invitation and submit a complete itinerary in order to get the visa. I am considering a solo train trip across Russia later this year. My travel plans would be flexible and subject to change on a whim so I don't know the itinerary in advance and really would not know most of my lodging. So the question is whether I can simply buy the airline tickets and my first railroad ticket and show up at Moscow passport control without a problem or do I have to make detailed written plan?

Business Visa Inquiries

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:11:48 +0000

There are several questions I’d like to ask here. To give a quick overview of the situation, my fiancée is currently pregnant and living in Russia—it was a bit of a surprise for us as we hadn’t been planning to tackle the whole immigration thing for another year now, but it’s made the issue of a Russian visa all the more important (before we had been meeting in Chile where her parents live and we both have visa-free travel).

Initially I had wanted to secure a three year visa since that’s the most economical and would allow us to more easily travel back and forth as needed. To this end she suggested I get a business visa and secured me an invitation from a friend at another company, which I currently have in hand. There are several issues that worry me though:

First, the dates I initially requested for the invitation were the beginning of May to the end of August—123 days. We had thought that the “six month validity” meant that you could stay for up to six months, but as I understand it now it rather means that it allows you a stay of up to 90 days within a six month period. So, would this request cause the visa to be rejected, or would the embassy simply restrict the amount to no more than 90 days and still approve it? I already have the invitation in my hands with the official seal stamped to it, so I can’t really make any changes at this point.

Second, I’d read that a multi-entry business visa is more likely to be scrutinized and rejected if the person hasn’t previously received and respected a Russian visa and thus has some sort of history for them to go off of. Would it be more likely to succeed if I applied for a single-entry visa? While it’s not as effective, my primary concern right now is to just be able to be there with her rather than getting the best value.

Third, if my application is rejected, can I apply again immediately, say for a tourist visa instead? We admittedly tried to get a tourist visa for my fiancée to come to the US but the American consulate rejected her, and a contact she had at the embassy stated that while you can reapply as soon as you want, once you’re rejected they’ll basically keep on rejecting you unless something significantly changes your case (or the interviewer just really decides they like you), so you basically have to wait six months or so before re-applying. I’m wondering if it isn’t the same for Russian visas, where once they decide to reject you they aren’t going to seriously look at your case again until so much time has passed.

Last, as a more general curiosity, how often does the Russian embassy actually call people in for interviews?