Hi, If it were me, I'd stay on the safe side and get a Russian visa in the U.S. if there is an opportunity to do so. With new visa regulations passed last year, it has become harder for U.S. citizens to get certain categories of visas (such as business visas) outside of the U.S. I don't know about student visas, but my gut feeling is that there might be problems with getting them outside of the U.S., since the student originates with a U.S. university, etc.
But don't take my word for it. Try to get information straight from the horse's mouth. If I were you, I would contact the consular department of Russian Embassy in Paris directly. You may not be able to get an e-mail response or get anybody on the horn, but it's always worth trying. I've managed to get information over the phone in the past more than once from embassies in Berlin, Germany and Tallinn, Estonia. Here are the contacts for Paris. Russian Embassy in Paris Consular department Phone: +33 1 4504-0501 Fax: +33 1 4504-4409 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got this information off the very useful website http://www.russianembassy.net, which is a place where you can find complete contact information for Russian embassies worldwide. Best regards, Kirill Galetski. > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:59:21 -0400 > From: Irene Hurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Expat List American student visa for Russia from France > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > > One of my university students will be studying in France this Fall > Semester 2008 and in Russia during Spring 2009. > > He will need to obtain a visa in France for Russia. Might this be a > problem? Is it better to get the Russian visa in August here in the U.S.? > > If anyone has been through this process or is familiar with it, please > respond. > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Expat mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat > > > End of Expat Digest, Vol 44, Issue 37 > ************************************* > _______________________________________________ Expat mailing list [email protected] http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat http://www.expat.ru/forum/
