Fwd: Re: [SEELANGS] visas

[Daniel Rancour-Laferriere]

>Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 14:02:00 -0800
>To: Renee Stillings | Alinga <renee at alinga.com>
>From: Daniel Rancour-Laferriere <darancourlaferriere at ucdavis.edu>
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] visas
>
>Dear Renee,
>I failed to mention that I sent the color scans to a third party who
>arranged for the official invitations to Russia (two different
>trips).  Sorry for the confusion.  Checking with the Zierer Service
>website, I see that actual passports are now required during the final
>step of obtaining the visa.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Daniel RL
>
>At 09:17 PM 4/1/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>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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>Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
>Professor of Russian
>University of California
>One Shields Ave.
>Davis, CA 95616 USA
>530-752-4999
>darancourlaferriere at ucdavis.edu

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Professor of Russian
University of California
One Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616 USA
530-752-4999
darancourlaferriere at ucdavis.edu

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