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cabridelle
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 Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:05 am Post subject: Double-entry Visa registration |
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Hi all,
I know this is being asked over and over again. I have in fact found posts that answer some of my questions.
My planned trip is like this:
1) land in Moscow (from Canada). Register VISA with agency associated with WTR. Will they do this for the entire period I am in Russia, regardless of whether I visit other cities as well (at my own risk of course)?
2) after a day or so in Moscow (or however long it takes to register the VISA), take the train to St-Petersburg. Spend a week there. I saw that legally I should register my VISA there also, but since the agency in Moscow would hypothetically have registered it for the entire period, then I should be ok. And if anyone asks, I was only in St-Petersburg 2-3 days. HOWEVER...
3)...after a week in St-Petersburg, I plan to use my double-entry VISA to visit Tallinn (Estonia) for a few days, then re-enter Russia. Might I have any problems at this point, if I didn't register my VISA in St-Pet? Can I just say that I went from Moscow straight to Talinn, or perhaps that I only spent a few days in St-Pet?
4) After re-entering Russia, I plan to take the train back to Moscow, where I will spend another week before flying back home.
Does this make sense? Am I missing any formalities that I should do, given the itinerary described above, at any time between my arrival to and departure from Russia?
Also, I will book tickets ahead of time, so can I instead land in Moscow, take train within a day to St-Pet, register there (what agencies there are associated with WTR??), go to Talinn, go back to Moscow. But then I have to register in Moscow also, don't I? Or can I kind of just say the same thing, that I only spent a few days in Moscow, and most of the time in St-Pet and Talinn?
Thanks a lot guys. I'm probably over-complicating this, but we all know how much easier it is to travel when we already have this sort of thing sorted out.
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froid
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When are you doing all this?
Next month I am trying out the double visa process as well. Flying to Moscow, spending 5 days in Russia and then going from there to Morocco and then back to Moscow for a few days.
I know you want to arrange things now and understand the process ahead of time but when I return I'll check in and let you know if I have any issues along my way. |
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cabridelle
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Hi froid,
I'm heading over in mid-June. Yeah, if you can let me know how it went, that'd be great!
Thanks!
And enjoy your trip  |
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froid
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I will definitely let you know if I run into anything unexpected.
After a few trips I am pretty immune to the paperwork bothering me now. This time though...I am not staying in one spot very long so I wonder about the registration rules because of that even. In Russia the longest stay in one spot will be 2 days in one hotel, and every other hotel within Russia will be just 1 night. Other than that I am on trains or planes. So I wonder how that will work out for me.  |
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froid
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Just got my double entry visa back from Ottawa. At least the paperwork part was easy. Had an invite with 2 visits listed including the dates in and out and back again and sent it all with my application to Ottawa with a nice letter requesting a double entry visa. Just to emphasize that point in case they missed the 2 visits listed on the invite. Visa looks the same as single entry, just has a "2" instead of a 1. They don't even list the dates in the middle, just the end dates. |
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tmac100
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| froid wrote: | | Just got my double entry visa back from Ottawa. At least the paperwork part was easy. Had an invite with 2 visits listed including the dates in and out and back again and sent it all with my application to Ottawa with a nice letter requesting a double entry visa. Just to emphasize that point in case they missed the 2 visits listed on the invite. Visa looks the same as single entry, just has a "2" instead of a 1. They don't even list the dates in the middle, just the end dates. |
Yes, compared to some horror stories my friends have experienced elsewhere, the Russia Federation Counsular Service in Ottawa is plain excellent! My son brought my application with required support docs, and a week later - voila!! There was my visa. In some countries it is nothing except close to impossible to get a visa for Russia by yourself - except with a "semi-scam" tourism office doing the "work" for you  |
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