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Russian Visa for Independant Travellers and Business People

If you would like to travel to Russia individually and independantly, we can provide you with an invitation letter to obtain a Russian visa at your nearest Consulate. Note that simple confirmations of hotel bookings are not sufficient to receive a visa. If you plan to book a Russian language course, please do not apply for the visa here, but use our language course application form.

The visa procedure is the following (process in chronological order):

  • You apply for the visa invitation with this form (click below after reading all instructions)
  • Within 1 hour, you receive an email confirmation message with your visa details and further instructions
  • You reply to the email message and confirm hereby your email address and your visa details
  • You arrange for payment (through paypal with credit cards or through bank transfer, see our details on payment options)
  • After 1-21 working days depending on the delivery option and type of visa chosen, we provide you with the invitation materials and instructions how to obtain the Russian visa at your nearest Russian Consulate
  • You obtain the visa (stamped into your passport) at the consulate by mail or in person. There are additional fees at the Consulate not covered by our service, typically USD 50 to USD 120 depending on the country.
  • You register your visa within 72 hours of arrival in Russia at a hotel. We can also register your visa in Moscow/St.Petersburg if you choose to do so.

Choose the maximal duration and type We issue the visa invitation Cost (USD)
within working days
Visa starts: Visa ends:
Express delivery of visa invitation
I understand that I need to register my visa within the first 72 h after arrival in Russia. Registration is possible at any hotel. If you do not stay in a hotel, you need to register the visa at our correspondance office in St.Petersburg or Moscow. Not registering a visa may result in a fine (at least 50 USD) when leaving the country for which we take no responsibility.
Your visa details (please fill-in as complete as possible)
First Name(s) Family Name
Address E-mail
Citizenship* Passport Number
date of birth Passport valid until
Fax Number where the invitation will be sent to:
Russian Consulate where you would like to obtain the visa:

List of all Russian Consulates
Cities you would like to visit in Russia:
*Please note that there are restrictions for citizens from certain African countries. Multi-year visa invitations are only available for citizens of EU except for the UK, Ireland and Denmark.
This section only applies if you applying for a visa valid for longer than 1 month.

If you are applying for a visa valid for longer than 1 month, we are providing you with the invitation materials to apply for a business visa. In this case, we also need to know about your work/employment. If you are a student, please write the address of your current department/school. If you are not employed write again your home address. Also we need a copy of your passport. Please send a scanned copy (.jpg or .gif file, 200dpi resolution, file size smaller than 1 MB) of the page with your photo to our email address.

Place of work (name of company, job function, address, phone, fax)

HOW TO PAY

1. ONLINE PAYMENT

Use our quick online payment method

or

pay by Credit Card (VISA) via Paypal to payment@studyrussian.com:

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 2. MONEY TRANSFER TO OUR ACCOUNT
(transfer costs must be covered by applicants):
Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS)
Place Saint-François 1
CH - 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland
Account Nr: 357151.60M
Clearing number 0243
SWIFT CODE: UBSWCHZH10A 		Beneficiary:
Ziegler & Partner GmbH
Orzens 42
CH - 1095 Lutry-Lausanne, Switzerland
Important: You will be asked to confirm an email with your details after you have submitted this online application. This is to make sure that we have a valid email address on file and that all information you are giving to us is correct.

If you choose to transfer funds to our bank account by wire transfer, please send a copy of your payment order. We need this confirmation since it may take up to 10 days until funds become available when transfered electronically to our bank account. Please note that we do not accept cash payments

If you are applying as a group, please make only one payment and indicate the members of the group you are paying for.

If you have any questions regarding the visa procedure, please contact us.


Click here if you have correctly filled out the form and have carefully read the information on this page.