Hi, > As far as I know this should be possible without any problems for a US > Citizen.
I wouldn't bet my bottom dollar on it. Last November, I applied for a 3-month double-entry business visa at the Russian embassy in London. I was told go and get my visa in the U.S. or produce documents (such as an apartment rental agreement) attesting to the effect that I had been in the U.K. for more than six months. It was only after asking to speak to a higher-up and using my native-level Russian to reason with the guy that I was able to scrape by. The new "rules" had only been in effect for a few weeks, and many people didn't know about them, me included. The embassy hadn't been enforcing the new rules up until a few days before I applied, but maybe I could've found this out if I'd called ahead. Being that London was generally one of the most hassle-free places for a U.S. citizen to get a Russian visa, I didn't think to do that. If it were me in your shoes, I'd call the Russian embassy in Paris and try to definitively find out: Russian Embassy in Paris Consular department Phone: +33 1 4504-0501 Fax: +33 1 4504-4409 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the Russian Embassy Locator, http://www.russianembassy.net, to find contact details for other Russian embassies. Kirill. > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:21:48 -0800 > From: Michael Cordy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Expat List RE: Expat Digest, Vol 45, Issue 1 RE: American > student visa for Russia from France > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > I am going to apply for a visa at the Russian Embassy in Paris (3 month > double entry business visa for Russia). As far as I know this should be > possible without any problems for a US Citizen. > > Has anyone heard otherwise? _______________________________________________ Expat mailing list [email protected] http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat http://www.expat.ru/forum/
