Russian Visa Photo Tool

Yes, you can do it if you have confirmed accommodation (booked in a hotel or your family member’s/friend’s place) and transit information for every night of your stay in Russia. When you arrive in Russia, you must register your visa and confirm your accommodation and itinerary.

No. With your business Russian visa you can stay in this country up to 12 months and you are allowed to leave and re-enter Russian Federation multiple times but where the document expires you must unconditionally leave. Otherwise your stay in Russia will be illegal. If you need, you may then apply for a new visa.

As you cannot exit Russia without your valid visa, you must replace it in case of losing it for any reason.

First of all, in the case of theft, robbery or just losing it, you must contact a local police station. Request there for an official document confirming that your visa was lost. Then, you need to contact your embassy in Moscow with the purpose of getting a new passport. Remember that you will also need the return ticket and one photo for Russian visa.

If you are already in Russia and cannot leave the country for some of the following reasons, it is possible you extend your visa up to 2 weeks. The list of cases is closed and undisputed. There are following situations:

• missing your back flight.
• an accident.
• a serious illness.
• unavailability of booking a flight in case of an open-date ticket.

If you are planning to stay in Russian Federation for more than 30 days, you should ask for a business visa.

Yes. Biometric data collection of visa applicants has been introduced recently by Russian Federation government. The pourpose of this is to help with managing its security and control illegal immigration.

What does it mean to you? Only this when you apply for a Russian visa you will need to book an appointment to have your biometric data taken before you submit your visa application.

If your child is included in your or the second parent’s passport, there is no need to apply for a visa for him/her. In such a case, a visa support document is sufficient. But you need to apply for a child’s visa if your son or daughter has a separate passport. Sometimes it is necessary to provide additional documents and/or information with who a child will be travelling to Russia. In the case of small children who cannot write, the person who signs the application is a parent. Important thing: it is necessary to note it under the signature.

Generally speaking: no. But if you have figured out that your provided details were wrong, contact as soon as possible the embassy or consulate to see what they can do. Everything depends on which stage is the process - sometimes it is possible to change something without charge but in many cases unfortunately no.

Yes, you must provide the embassy or consulate with the exact dates of entry and exit Russia. Remember that with a tourist visa you can stay in the country maximum 30 days including day of arrival and departure. It is impossible you come to Russia earlier or leave later that is indicated in your visa document. If you think that your plans may change, the good idea is to add a few days before and after the expected dates of travel to make the period of stay more flexible.

No and it also concerns other countries. You are allowed to have only one active visa for a given country in your passport. So, if your Russian visa has not expired yet, is not cancelled or used and you apply again for a new one, your active (current) visa will be cancelled when the new visa validation period begins.

A work permit can only be obtained from the company that you are going to work for in Russia.

Invitations with the purpose of "education" or "study" must be issued by the school, college or university that you will be attending in Russia.

All non-Russians arriving in the Russian Federation must register their visas within seven working days of their arrival. Visa registration procedures and requirements are different in each city and region of Russia.You need to check it and to prepare more information about the region you go. Remember: unregistered visas can cause problems and delays. The worst case is a denial of exit from Russia so do not underestimate this duty.

If you want to go and stay in the Russian Federation, you need a document stuck into your passport. It permits you to enter for a chosen purpose (eg. tourism or business), stay in the country for an indicated period of time and leave Russia at the end. Remember that you will need your visa for the departure - if you lose it or stay longer than you were allowed to, you may have troubles with leaving the country.

You request Russian visa for the specific purpose and it will be written and encoded into your document. But this does not restrict you to this purpose and you may travel around Russia also to visit your family and friends or f. ex. take part in cultural events.

The main difference between them is a validation time. Tourist visas are valid for up to one month and allow either a single or double entry and departure. If you have a business visa, you may enter and exit Russian Federation multiple times and stay there from between one month to one year.

Some of the information on your Russian visa will be in Russian, some of them - in English. It is your responsibility to check if your visa is suitable for your journey before you use it. If you are confused, a good idea is to translate some data or look for a guide on how to read a Russian visa.

The cost of Russian visa depends on its type, requested period of stay, your citizenship, how quickly you need it and some more details.

Having the visa process done takes between four days and six weeks as the case may be. It depends inter alia on the visa’s type you ask. Please note that processing days are business days excluding weekends and Russian bank holidays.

This duty applies only to candidats answering “self-employed” or “unemployed” to the question about current employment status on a Russian visa application form. If you are in one of these groups, you will need to provide copies of your bank statements for the last full three months to demonstrate that you are able to pay your trip. Retired people and students are not required to submit the bank statements.

If you are applying for your visa yourself, you should bring:

• a filled application form
• your support documents
• your passport valid for 6 months after your proposed departure from Russia and have two blank pages
• a single passport picture following a specifications for a Russian visa photo
• the consular fee 
• proof of medical insurance 
• recent bank statements ( only if you are self-employed or unemployed)

No, you cannot send your documents by post.

You can bring your application form together with your photos, passport and other required documents to a Russian Consulate, Russian embassy in your country or Russian Visa Application Centre.

Every foreigner country citizen who enters Russian Federation. The exceptions are only citizens of former CIS Republics, except Georgia and Turkmenistan. They may travel to Russia carrying only their passports.

If you travel through Russian Federation to another country (just transiting) you do not need a visa on condition that you do not leave the airport area. In case of the stay in the country less than 72 hours, there is a possibility to get a transit visa.