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Russian Visa

HOW TO OBTAIN A TOURIST VISA TO RUSSIA

All foreign nationals are required to have entry visas to travel to the Russian Federation. To obtain a Russian tourist visa you first need to get a tourist invitation. Tourist visas can be valid for up to 1 month. The invitation comprises a tourist voucher and a reservation confirmation, which can only be issued by specially authorized travel agency, registered in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

You can apply for a Russian visa support. The invitation and the voucher will be prepared the next business day and sent to you by fax to any country in the world.

To obtain your visa, present the invitation and voucher at any Russian Consulate worldwide. To apply for a tourist Russian visa, you need to bring the following:
1. Confirmation of hotel arrangements from authorized Russian travel company (that are the invitation and voucher from Petersburg-Lodging.com partner), showing reference number and confirmation number for the visa (a fax, in most of the consulates).
2. Photocopy of the vital information pages of your valid passport (showing Name, Birth Date, Passport Number, Expiration Date).
3. Three photos (3 by 4 cm), a filled-in visa application form (available in the consulate).
4. A visa application fee (depends on the type of visa and the time of processing).
It's always better to check with the consulate beforehand what documents they need exactly. After you submit all the documents and papers needed it should take the consulate from 1 to 21 days to make a visa, depending on how much you pay.

All Russian Visas should be registered upon arrival to the Russian Federation. Your Russian visa must be registered within 72 hours of arrival (excluding weekends and official holidays). If you are staying at one of our apartments, we will help you to register your visa in St. Petersburg.

The total visa expenses include: payment for an invitation (paid to Russian authorities agency), visa application fee (paid to a Russian consulate), visa registration fee (paid upon arrival to Russian authorities agency).


VISA SUPPORT THROUGH PETERSBURG-LODGING.COM

If you need our visa support (we send you letter of invitation - voucher), there is a fee of EUR 35 (per person) included a registration fee when you are here in St. Petersburg. The cost should be sent with the deposit when you make definite booking. Then we need the scan passport pages with your picture on it by email. We would send you the letters of invitation withing 1-2 working days so that you could apply your russian tourist visa at Russian consulate in your country.

If you can't get your passport scanned, please let us know we will send you some questions we need to know for your letter of invitation (voucher).

Please note that we only provide you letter of invitation by e-mail or by fax. The visa support fee does not include any charge to send you original letter of invitation by post servise from Russia.


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