How to get Visa to russia from India in 2020

A tourist invitation can be received at any company registered in the Unified Federal Register of Tour Operators in just 5 minutes. It will take no more than 1 hour to draw up such an invitation, as it is printed by tour operators on their own forms. 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.

Appearance of this kind of invitations is not fixed, but they necessarily must contain information about the tour operator issued it (reference number, name, address), information about the tourist (passport details) and his trip to Russia (route, arrival and departure dates, necessary multiplicity of visa).

The invitation issued as letter from the organization is a request for a business visa to be issued to a foreigner before the Russian consulate from an organization that is accredited with the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Invitations are printed on the letterhead of the organizations, so their issuance online does not take much time (about 5 minutes).

An invitation may be issued on the letterhead of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation if the party interested in the arrival of an Indian citizen in Russia submits an appropriate application and attaches all the necessary documents to it. It will take a lot of time to make an invitation this way, because the information submitted about the invited foreigner must be checked. If he violated the visa regime during his previous visits to Russia, then a business invitation will be refused for him. If no reasons for refusal are found, business invitation will be issued on protected from counterfeiting form. Registration will take from 7 to 21 business days.

An electronic invitation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Telex) is an invitation form as order from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation to a specific consulate of the Russian Federation to issue a visa to a foreigner. It is convenient because series of numbers that can be communicated to the invited person in a telephone conversation or email. Registration takes from 7 to 21 business days.

Receive an invitation

A working visa to Russia is needed for citizens of India who have already found a company ready to hire them and apply for the papers necessary for it (work permit and work invitation) and send them to India.

Based on the papers received from the employer, an Indian citizen will be able to first get work visa with a validity period of 90 days. During this time, he will have to go to migration services and begin to work with his employer. After that he will be able to extend his work visa for the entire period of work permit’s validity.

A work visa is good because its holder can stay in Russia for the duration of its validity. At the same time, it can be renewed each time for another year without leaving the country. In the event of a job change, the foreigner have to leave the Russian Federation and receive the necessary documents for the work visa from the new employer.

Indians 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 to Indian citizens come to the Russian Federation and stay in Russia from 1 to 8 days.

This visa format has been introduced as an experiment and continues to nowadays. Indian citizens do not need an invitation for receiving of electronic visa, just only a digital photo and a completed application form on the Foreign Ministry website. With electronic visa Indians can visit only the Far Eastern District and the Kaliningrad Region.