14 May 2012

The REAL RUSSIAN WEBSITE

As you all know and fear, Russia has adopted an on-line electronic visa application system for filling in the visa form. The questions remain as they were on the printed form, but now the e-form forces certain answers and does not allow blank spaces.

The real problem was that over the past two weeks there have been two Russian visa websites, one that works and one that does not:

1) the one listed on the Russian Embassy in Canada website which is the worng one because it does not list Canada as a visa country option; and

2) the correct site which does allow Canadian applicants, and it looks real, which is a bonus.

The correct specialised website of the Consular department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation is https://visa.kdmid.ru

Click here to see the new Russian on-line site.