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Visa registration when only staying for two days?

 
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kajagy
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:30 pm    Post subject: Visa registration when only staying for two days? Reply with quote

I've read than you need visa registration when staying for longer than three business days. Does that mean that I dont need visa registration when I'm only staying in Russia for two days?
(Just wanted to be sure)
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DITTRICH
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Joined: 13 Jun 2004
Posts: 429
Location: London UK

PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Be careful what you define as a business day. Weekends and russian public holidays do not count. other weekdays count. Arriving late in the evening on a weekday still counts as a day (even if you passed immigration countrol at 23.59hrs). Departing early in the morning on a weekday still counts as a day (even if you passed immigration control at 00.01hrs). This my interpretatation of the rules and it's the safe way in my opinion. Note if you stay in a hotel overnight they will automatically register you even if you stay less than 3 'days' there. It's part of checking in.
So if you arrive on weekday 'x' and depart on weekday 'x+1' then strictly you don't need to register. Departing on weekday 'x+2' would be a trickier situation (unclear) and weekday 'x+3' would definitely require registration.
Les
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