Hi,

I've got my visa situation squared away since I'm an accredited foreign 
journalist and will be able to have year-long visa issued to me without leaving 
the country. However, getting my visa registered is a problem since my Russian 
landlord lives in the U.S. and cannot be physically present in order to do the 
registration. This requirement for physical presence of the landlord is 
absolute. I went down to my local branch of the Federal Migration Service and 
quizzed them about this. They said that the landlord had to be in person either 
at their office or the post office (if registering by mail), and that a letter 
of attorney from the landlord would not work. They said that upon registration, 
the landlord's presence was actually more important than my presence. I don't 
have any other landlord I can ask to do this for me, and looking for one is 
impractical and inexpedient at this point. I also can't get registered through 
my employer, since they do not have a registered office in
  Russia. Getting a Russian temporary/permanent residence permit is also 
impractical for me for the same reason as the visas -- I have nowhere to be 
registered in Moscow.

In the past, I've solved this problem in various ways, including using the 
services of a visa agency (Visa Link) to register visas which were not 
initiated by them. Recently, Visa Link told me that due to restrictive new 
rules, they will only be able to register a year-long visa for three months at 
a time, meaning that I would have to pay 1500 rubles every three months and 
leave Russia and come back in order to be registered for the next three months. 
This doesn't really sound right to me, and I'm wondering how those of you in 
the same boat (landlord lives abroad) have solved this problem in the current 
visa regime and whether maybe you could recommend a visa agency that can do 
registrations (of visas that are not their own) for longer and/or without 
having to leave the country.

Kirill.

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