Question

[Josh Wilson]

An online community I frequent discussed this a few months ago. Visa
extensions can be applied in the event of emergencies - as in medical and
legal events that would physically mean that you could not leave the country
by the date your visa expired. 

I don't know how much "flexibility" there may be with the situation, but the
general consensus on the site was that unless you have a doctor's note or
some other documented excuse, the extension could not be had. 

With the tightening of visa rules recently, I doubt the situation has
improved on this. 

(FYI, the community is www.redtape.ru. It's populated in large part by
Westerners who live in or frequent Russia.) 

Best, 


Josh Wilson
Asst. Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor-in-Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
www.sras.org
jwilson at sras.org


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:29 AM, James Bailey <jobailey at facstaff.wisc.edu>
wrote:

> Seelangers,
>    Someone has told me that in Moscow you can extend your visa for ten
> days by going to the Consul at Sheremetevo airport.  Has anyone been able
to
> do this? Probably better to replay off line.
>    Thanks,
>    James Bailey
>

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