Visa Registration in Russia

[Angelika Molk]

I have been living in Moscow for 4 years now and have had a number of
visitors with tourist visas...you are supposed to register, and you can
either do it at the OVIR or through a tourist agency (which is much more
expensive), but actually it is not really necessary. None of my guests have
ever been asked for registration (neither in the city nor on the airport),
and even if you do get caught, you only have to pay a fine ( a few rubles
for every day you were without registration). So, I guess what I'm saying
is that isn't all that important to get registered, especially if you are
only staying for a short time.
Greetings, Angelika

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Svetlana Grenier
<greniers at georgetown.edu>wrote:

> Dear Kostya and other Seelangovtsy,
>
> My sister and I have just had this experience. I had a business visa, and
> she had a tourist one. You can register at the post office or at the OVIR
> (post office is obviously easier).  They say, you have to register within 7
> business days.  You will need a copy of your passport and of your host's
> passport (first page and the page showing his or her propiska), and also a
> copy of the little "migratsionnaia karta" they give you at the border.  At
> the post office they gave us a form, of which we had to fill out two
> copies, without any mistakes or corrections--I destroyed four or five of
> those forms.  It cost 207 rubles.  The interesting thing, I don't think the
> border control on the way out was interested in our stamped migration card
> at all...
>
> Best,
> Svetlana
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Kustanovich, Konstantin V <
> konstantin.v.kustanovich at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear Seelangовцы!
>>
>> I am traveling to Russia (St. Petersburg and Moscow) on a tourist visa but
>> will be staying in a private apt. rather than a hotel. I assume that I
>> will
>> have to register my visa. How and where does one do it in this situation?
>> OVIR? Police? Post Office? Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Kostya Kustanovich
>>
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