Friday, April 20, 2007
My new visa
Here's what it takes to get a visa for someone with a temporary residence permit:
- 4 matt black-and-white pictures of the type used for a Russian travel passport
- A photocopy of all the pages in your passport that have changes on them
- A filled-out application form
- A few tax receipts, the most important of which is to the amount of 300 RUR.
Apparently, OVIR doesn't deal with visa anymore, and we have to hand in our application at the UVD (which is what we did last time, by the way).
We (Olga) collected all the necessary documents pretty fast and headed for the UVD immediately. They worked from 9 to 12 and from 15:15 to 16:15 today.
In the morning, Olga managed to hand in the documents, pay the taxes at the bank and take the receipt back to the UVD. Unfortunately, the lady official didn't know how to fill out the application and asked Olga to come back in the afternoon, so that she could consult someone.
At 15:15 we got a call from the lady saying she had given Olga the wrong tax bill to pay and that Olga would have to come pick the receipts up, take them to the bank again to have them change the account number, and carry them back to the UVD.
Furthermore, she was explained how to fill out the application form and was told to hand in my passport.
Don't you just love Russian bureaucracy?
Anyway, we have been promised that we should be able to leave here by April 28, although in theory the procedure could take up to 20 days (and probably longer, too) and there is no emergency procedure.
I really do hope they will make an effort and get it done as fast as possible. After all, they are partly to blame for this whole situation, because they let me leave for Belgium with this so-called visa of mine.
So, like I said: let's keep our fingers crossed
- 4 matt black-and-white pictures of the type used for a Russian travel passport
- A photocopy of all the pages in your passport that have changes on them
- A filled-out application form
- A few tax receipts, the most important of which is to the amount of 300 RUR.
Apparently, OVIR doesn't deal with visa anymore, and we have to hand in our application at the UVD (which is what we did last time, by the way).
We (Olga) collected all the necessary documents pretty fast and headed for the UVD immediately. They worked from 9 to 12 and from 15:15 to 16:15 today.
In the morning, Olga managed to hand in the documents, pay the taxes at the bank and take the receipt back to the UVD. Unfortunately, the lady official didn't know how to fill out the application and asked Olga to come back in the afternoon, so that she could consult someone.
At 15:15 we got a call from the lady saying she had given Olga the wrong tax bill to pay and that Olga would have to come pick the receipts up, take them to the bank again to have them change the account number, and carry them back to the UVD.
Furthermore, she was explained how to fill out the application form and was told to hand in my passport.
Don't you just love Russian bureaucracy?
Anyway, we have been promised that we should be able to leave here by April 28, although in theory the procedure could take up to 20 days (and probably longer, too) and there is no emergency procedure.
I really do hope they will make an effort and get it done as fast as possible. After all, they are partly to blame for this whole situation, because they let me leave for Belgium with this so-called visa of mine.
So, like I said: let's keep our fingers crossed
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