visa questions

[Pendergast, J. Mr DFL]

Dear Lynne-
 
I can't help you with 1 & 2, but I have used the Russian National Group a number of times for visa processing with only good results. This is their website.  
http://www.russia-travel.com/
They're also very helpful over the phone and could probably answer your first two questions.  They have an office in mid-twon Manhattan.  They aren't cheap.  Another site I've used successfully is the Visa House
http://www.visahouse.com/
They're a litte less expensive, not so easy to get on the phone, and I don't think they have any offices in the US.
Good luck!
 
-John Pendergast
United States Military Academy

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Subject: [SEELANGS] visa questions



Three visa-related questions:

1) Has anyone who served as study abroad director in Russia for a US program
had to help a non-US student renew an F-1 (US) visa while the student was
studying in Russia? The student in this case is Chinese but resides
officially in Singapore, and the renewal can't be processed until our
Financial Aid office sends out support letters for next year. In June. When
she intends to be in Russia on our program. Of course if she simply remained
in the US she wouldn't need the renewal; it's the fact that she's leaving
the US that necessitates her getting it renewed.

2) (dealing with the same student): will the fact that she doesn't have the
renewed F-1 affect her ability to get the Russian visa to go there? We've
already alerted her to the possibility that she may have to plan to fly to
Asia after our program to renew her US visa there. If she has evidence of a
return flight to Singapore, will the Russian visa be a problem?

3) (completely different student) For simple tourist visas to Moscow (two
week trip), is the visatorussia.com site reliable? If not, is there one you
can recommend?

Many thanks in advance for advice!

Lynne
--
Lynne deBenedette
Sr. Lecturer in Russian
Dept. of Slavic Languages
Brown University
Providence RI 02912
email: lynne_debenedette-at-brown.edu (replace -at- with @)

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