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Immigration Cards - Russia.
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Immigration Cards - Russia.
Similar to the previous form that I filled out upon arrival at SVO 2.
Immigration Cards - Russia. Group: rec.travel.air Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2004, 7:27am (EST-3) From: (Bjorn=A0Olsson) (maryanne kehoe) wrote in message ... Yes, but as I understand it the immigration card lists ALL of your addresses that you will be at during your time in the country. No, it doesn't. There is only room for a single address on the card, so a tourist who will be travelling around the place would typically just enter the address of the first hotel. http://www.waytorussia.net/RussianVi...rationCard.jpg Bjorn |
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"KGB" (KGB) wrote in message ...
On 22 Mar 2004 07:50:20 -0800, (Bjorn Olsson) wrote: The original plan was for my wife and I to stay with a family in private accomodation in Moscow for a few days prior to the start of our Trans-Sib trip. However, we were subsequently informed by our travel company that this has now been banned by the authorities and we would have to stay in a hotel instead. This sounds strange. I don't quite understand your situation. Do you already have tourist visas issued by the travel company, or are you yet to apply for visas? Have you made any hotel reservations already? Were you planning a home-stay arranged by a company, or to stay with friends? Please clarify, and maybe we can help you with further advice. Bjorn Hi Bjorn OK then, to fully explain our situation....my wife and I (from the UK) have booked a trip on the Trans-Sib from Moscow to Beijing via Mongolia in May. It is the standard trip, a few days in Moscow; join the train and travel to Beijing, breaking the journey in Irkutsk and Ulaan Batar en-route. Originally, the travel company offered the option of, instead of staying in a hotel in Moscow, staying with a Moscow family - which we elected to do. However we were later told that the home-stay was now unavailable as the "authorities" had clamped down on travel companies offering this option, so we are staying in a hotel in Moscow instead (we are though, staying with a family at Lake Baikal). This does sound a bit mysterious. If authorities have stopped home-stays one might wonder why home-stay is still available in the Baikal area? It's all a bit surprising, but probably all you can do is to go along with what the company says. Itīs a pity, though, since homestay would be much more fun. As far as documentation is concerned, everything has been organised. We have our air tickets, visas, hotel vouchers etc - everything except the actual train tickets which we apparently collect in Moscow; Have they told you exactly where you pick up the tickets? By "exactly", I mean not just at which train station, or something like that, but really exactly? I have been trying to help people in Moscow who were wondering around the train station trying to find out where to pick up their tickets, and the thing is that the train stations can be really confusing places for non-russian speakers. If they donīt tell you more than the station name, you could easily loose a couple of hours on searching the train station for where to get your tickets. all we have to do now is to get ourselves to the airport and fly to Moscow!!!! However, when we received our passports/visas back, the travel company included a note concerning immigrant cards, extracts from which I quoted in my original post. I merely hoped that somebody in this NG might have recent personal experience. I have been twice to Russia since the immigrration cards were introduced, and had no problems. Both times I flew into Sheremetyevo, and received my card just before the passport checkpoint. When we received our visas, stapled to that page in our passports was an arrival/departure card, which, although of a completely different format to MigrationCard.pdf and not numbered, asks the same questions. Since starting this thread I have in fact e-mailed the Russian Consulate for clarification about the Migration card and received the following reply:- "You will receive immigration cards ... with your visas". Is the arrival/departure card with our visa in fact the elusive Migration card - or yet more paperwork?? I don't really remember. (I guess I should, due to my recent trips, but the fact that I don't probably shows how little you need to worry about it). I would simply fill in whatever they ask you to fill in and not think more about it. The person in the passport checkpoint at the border will tell you if something is missing, and ask you to fill it in in that case. My wife and I are both "seasoned" travellers, well used to entry requirements, having had several month long vacations in various parts of Central and South America (travelling on local buses etc.) - and some long happy times wandering round the USA Southwest desert States with our tent. However, neither of us has ever been East; but keep reading accounts of overzealous Eastern bureaucracy. You, me, and all other westerners have been fed for decades with images of Eastern european overzealous bureaucracy. But in fact, it is a simple little form you need to fill in, which basically asks your name, gender, passport number and address. That's all. Takes one minute to fill in. Don't worry, and focus on enjoying your trip. We are already planning our next trip (possible next year) when we will visit either Honduras/Guatemala (again) or Cambodia/Vietnam/Laos. I'm envious. And wishing you good travels. Bjorn |
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