Paul you are talking about the 1 year business visa. Rusa is talking about the double entry 90 Day Business Visa. I am not an expert in visa law, but since this is a different Visa I assume its true and you can re-apply for one right after the 90 day period. But, you are right. You'll have to fly home, wait the 10-14 day period to process the visa or pay an extra fee.
You should check, if you can get a work permit for a represenation of a foreign company. Heard that goes faster, is valid to 1 year and its not subject to the current quota freeze (or issuing work permits). That would not be 100% legal, but hey its Russia. The cost is about 35000 Rub, I was told and there are companies who offer this in Moscow. I am still holding and waiting for the freeze to end, so the government is finally processing my work permit request. Hope its soon. Greetings Chris ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:25:39 +0400 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Expat List Re: urgent questions To: "The Moscow Expat List" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Logic be defied -- that's the truth of the matter. ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul DeWitt To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:04 PM Subject: Expat List Re: urgent questions I understand what you're saying about the work visa, but it really does not make sense that you can repeatedly apply for and receive 90 day business visas. This stands in clear contrast to the stated Russian law - unless you're saying that things are different in practice. At best, I would think that after the expiration of your work visa you could apply for and receive ONE 90 day business visa (which is really a one year business visa with two 90 day terms), after which you would need to leave the country and either a) wait 90 days to re-enter Russia on that same business visa or b) re-enter Russia on an entirely new and different visa (eg. work, student). And even if you could repeatedly apply for and receive 90 business visas, is it not true that you would need to leave Russia and have the visa issued in your native country? Flying home every 90 days just doesn't sound practical. Paul Message: 6 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:03:28 +0400 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Expat List urgent questions To: "The Moscow Expat List" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="windows-1252"; reply-type=response If in between jobs -- former employee need not be left out in the cold. A Working Visa designates the name of the compay for which the Visa holder works, hence the Working Visa attaches exclusively to the company that submits the invitation on behalf of the employee to the Migration Service for approval. If the Working Visa-holding employee leaves the company designated on the Visa, then the Visa is technically invalid. HOWEVER, only the former employer would be privy to this fact -- visa or other authorities would not be made aware, which leaves former employee with room to manuver until the date on the Working Visa expires. During this interim period, former employee may arrange to remain in country by applying for a 90-day business visa, and once it expires, employee may again obtain another 90-day business visa -- this may be repeated indefinately. Good luck, RUSA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ Expat mailing list [email protected] http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat http://www.expat.ru/forum/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.lists.ru/pipermail/expat/attachments/20080501/035b561a/attachment -0001.html ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Expat mailing list [email protected] http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat End of Expat Digest, Vol 43, Issue 2 ************************************ _______________________________________________ Expat mailing list [email protected] http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat http://www.expat.ru/forum/
