How to get Visa to russia from China in 2020

You can get a tourist invitation by contacting any tour operator registered in the Unified Federal Register. Each travel agency has the right to issue a tourist invitation on its letterhead, so it will take about 5 minutes to write it. At the same time, each invitation consists of two parts:

1. Tourist voucher indicating that you have bought a tourist ticket to Russia.
2. Confirmation of tourist admission — the Consulate is requested to issue a visa to a foreign citizen.

The tourist invitation issued to the Chinese must indicate the details of the tour operator, passport details of the invited person, dates of the planned trip, Russian cities that the Chinese are going to visit, and the hotels in which he will stay. In addition to the invitation, other documents will be required to get visa (you need to clarify the list at the consulate where the foreigner is going to apply for a visa, since, depending on the consulate, the package of documents may change).

When you issue a letter invitation, it takes no more than 5 minutes to issue it online. However, only companies with special accreditation are entitled to issue such invitations.

I recommend choose the letter form from the organization for inviting foreigners. The benefits of this kind of invitation are:

• low price (cheaper than Telex or form of the Central Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation);
• speed of doing (a letter will be sent to your email in 5 minutes after payment for the service);
• opportunity to get a long-term visa on the basis of business invitation (if you have 2 previous business visas to Russia).

Invitation issued on the form of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on the basis of a request from the inviting party. It can take up to 17 days to complete.

In case of issuing an electronic invitation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Telex), it will be sent to the Russian Consulate in China through a special communication channel. In this case, the inviting person will need to inform only the Telex number. Registration will takes from 7 to 21 business days.

Receive an invitation

If Chinese citizen wants to have the right to work on the territory of the Russian Federation, he will need a work visa. It is impossible to get it without the help of the employer, who will take upon himself the registration of a work permit and a work invitation. The employer will have to spend about 1.5 months on the execution of these papers.

After receiving these documents from the employer, the Chinese will be able to receive visa to Russia with a validity period of 90 days. During this time, he will have to come to Russia, get a job with the employer who invited him and register for migration, as well as extend the validity of his work visa for 1 or 3 years.

The holder of a work visa can stay in Russia for the entire duration of its validity. If he works for the same employer, he will be able to renew his visa for another year every year without leaving Russia. If he finds another company that offers him more favorable conditions, he will have to quit, leave Russia and reissue a work visa based on new documents.

The Chinese who want to stay in Russia for a short period of time can do this with an electronic visa. This type of visa document allows Chinese citizens to visit Russia and stay in from 1 to 8 days.

This visa format has been introduced as an experiment that continues to this day. To get an electronic visa, Chinese citizens do not need an invitation, just only a digital photo and a completed application form on the Foreign Ministry website. With electronic visa Chinese can visit only the Far Eastern District and the Kaliningrad Region.