Fwd: [SEELANGS] registration

[Alina Israeli]

At Barbara's request:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Barbara Wurm <wurm_barbara at yahoo.de>
> Date: July 15, 2007 5:16:13 AM EDT
> To: iamlearningenglish at GMAIL.COM, aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] registration
>
> Dear Dustin, dear Alina,
> since my outgoing email-settings won't work with the list, I kindly  
> ask you to forward my very actual registration experience to the  
> list, in case you think that it will be interesting for others as  
> well.
> Thanks,
> Barbara
>
>
>
>
>
> This is just to let you know that the registration procedure has  
> changed. OVIR and its notorious opening hours are history. All you  
> need to do now is (within 72 hours) take the person you are staying  
> with to a post office (pretty comfortable opening hours compared to  
> a western European post office, by the way), bring your passports  
> (incl. visa in the foreign and "propiska" in the Russian passport),  
> make a photocopy of each, fill in a form called "Udostoverenie o  
> pribytii inostrannogo grazhdanina" (or something like that), sign  
> it, buy an envelope (1,40 rub), pay for the "registration" (188  
> rub), the post office person will mail your papers to a central  
> registration office. It takes 30 min. the first time, maybe 15, if  
> you have done it before and become an experienced "registrator".   :)
>
>
>
>  >> So those who are housed by friends and colleagues have to waste  
> time
>>> and pay bribes.

Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington DC. 20016
(202) 885-2387 	
fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu




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