visas

[Renee Stillings | Alinga]

I am not sure how they can be working with color scan sent to the
consultate, as not only have they changed their entire visa technology (the
visas now are not the separate piece of paper they once were, but rather are
pasted onto a page of your passport) but they normally will respond with a
rather curt reply if you try to email them anything. I believe you might be
refering to the visa support process, with which they (the host party and
subsequently OVIR/UVIR) indeed can work from a scanned copy of the passport.

We have dealt with the added inconvenience of original passports for
multiple students we have sent this past semester to Russia and so far
(knock on wood) no mishaps or misplaced/misdelivered passports. I believe
the USA was the last to switch over to this new visa format because the
consulates here do the most processing by post, as opposed to walk-ins.

Renee

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Rancour-Laferriere" <darancourlaferriere at UCDAVIS.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] visas


> Dear Jerry,
> My recent experience is that they will be satisfied with a scanned color
> attachment (by email) of the main page of the passport, or even a fax of
> that page.
>
> Best wishes,
> Daniel RL

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