🇷🇺Russian Visa

Humanitarian visas can be valid for up to 3 months and can be issued for single or double entry. Also humanitarian visas can be issued for multiple entries.

A. Documents Required:

• Tourist confirmation letter: (a copy can be submitted) issued by a Russian tour operator (registered in the Unified Federal Register of Tour Operators under a unique reference number). It should contain all the passport details of the tourist (full name, date of birth, sex, citizenship and passport number), duration of stay (date of entry and exit), number of entries granted by the visa, full contact details of the Russian tour operator, its reference number (“MBT”), list of the cities to be visited, accommodation details, signature of the head of the tour agency, the organization’s official seal.

Please Note: 2 copies of tourist confirmation are required for submission at Chennai consulate.

• Original passport: It should contain at least 2 blank pages for visas, valid for a period of 6 months after the visa expires (+ a good quality copy of the page with photo and address page – both on one side of an A4 sheet).

• Online application form completed on the website of the Consular Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, printed and signed in person by the applicant.

Please Note:

1. While completing the application form please select the correct location for submission (the visa center you will be applying at).

2. Upon completion of your application form please print, sign it and submit to our application center together with all support documents, payments and passport. Applicant’s signature on the application form should match the signature in the passport.

B. Photo Specifications:

• One color photograph 3.5 x 4.5 cm with light-coloured background, clear image of the applicant directly facing the camera, without dark/ tinted glasses or any headgear (with the exception of persons who wear such headgear due to their ethnic/ religious background, and are seen wearing the same in their passport photo).

• Clear shared quality and with the face in focus.

• Printed on normal photographic paper (camera print).

• Full face, non-smiling (without sunglasses, a hat/cap or other head covering, unless the applicant wears such items because of their religious belief or ethnic background).

• Please stick the Photograph on the Visa Application Form.

Please Note: Please follow these instructions carefully. If photographs presented do not meet these requirements your application will be considered incomplete.

C. Processing Time:

• The Embassy and Consulate General of the Russian Federation in India processes visa applications and decides whether or not to issue a visa within the processing times service standards of up to 10 working days. This is subject to a complete set of documents being provided and consular fees paid.

• The processing times may vary according to the decision of the Embassy or Consulate General of the Russian Federation in India.

• In emergency cases an urgent visa application may be submitted. In such cases the processing time can be shortened to just 3 working days or less, if an order to that effect has been given by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the Federal Migration Service of Russia or the Ambassador or Consul General of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in India.

• In addition, some applications may take 30 days if deemed necessary by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in India.

D. Application Form:

• To complete the online visa application form, please go Here.

• Please make sure to indicate which Russian Embassy or Consulate or Russia Visa Application Centre you intend to apply for your visa. Your application will be sent to the selected authority, for a decision to be made regarding your application. If you fail to do so then you may be requested to fill in a new application form.

• Upon completion of your application form please print, sign it and submit to our application center together with all support documents, payments and passport.