If you want to study or teach in Russia, namely in Omsk, you’ll need Russian entrance visa. You must apply for the visa at a visa department of Russian Consulate in your country.

Invitation from Omsk F. M. Dostoevsky State University gives legal grounds to apply for visa. The invitation for visa is issued officially by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian Federation. Preparation of invitation takes not less than 1 month. So you should apply for study or instruction not later than 2 or 3 months before arrival.

 

To start the arrangement of invitation letter for Russian student visa, we need:

· Application form / Formular

· a scanned copy of a front page of your valid passport with vital data (including the prolongation stamp, if your passport has been extended). You can send it via e-mail interdepomgu@rambler.ru or fax 7 3812-28-55-81.

· guarantee letter in Russian (English – for your understanding)

 

 

To start the arrangement of invitation letter for Russian teaching visa, we need:

· Application form

· a scanned copy of a front page of your valid passport with vital data (including the prolongation stamp, if your passport has been extended). You can send it via e-mail interdepomgu@rambler.ru or fax 7 3812-28-55-81.

· CV

· List of disciplines you could teach or topics you could lecture

· 200 roubles (state duty for invitation preparation)¹

· department’s interest to accept a foreign instructor²

· vaccination data (measles, diphtheria), photoroentgenoraphy

 

1. State duty for invitation preparation is paid by the applicant or receiving department.

2. When receiving an inquiry concerning teaching it is forwarded to the departments to consider and discuss their interest.

 

The original of the invitation will be send to you via mail or express mail (it is paid separately by the foreigner). Cost of express-mail delivery varies depending on the country. You could order this service (“paid by the addressee”) in DHL or FedEx in your country.

 

 

 

Registration is an internal Russian and respectively Omsk rule, which presupposes every foreign citizen must be registered within 3 days upon arrival (after crossing the RF borders), making his stay in Omsk valid. Registration is made by the organization that has invited a person, that is, by Omsk F. M. Dostoevsky State University in our case. The registration can also be made by the hotel (if there is such service), where you are staying.

In case when inviting organization is NOT OmSU the University will NOT have legal grounds to register the foreign citizen.

The foreign citizen must come to International Office immediately on the day of his arrivalto be registered in the Department of the Federal Migration Service (DFMS). Please bring to notice that documents for registration are prepared within 2 days! On the 3^rd day employee of International Office forwards all the documents to DFMS.

 

Registration is made for duration of single entry visa (single entry visa is issued for the period of up to three months according to the dates of invitation).

 

To be registered in DFMS for duration of single entry visa the foreign citizen should bring to International Office the following documents:

·        passport

·        migration card

·        copy of return ticket (if any)

·        address/place of residence in Omsk

 

If the foreign teacher or student is going to participate in conference, seminar and etc. in another city of Russian Federation consider the following:

·        Single entry visa is issued for the period of up to three months according to the dates of invitation and doesn’t suppose second border crossing). Don’t take train tickets in transit through Kazakhstan!!! (ex. Kazakhstan

·        When in another city during 3 days and more the foreign citizen should be registered at a place of stay in another RF city. The foreign citizen should have request of registration from OmSU about him.

 

The foreign teacher, lecturer or student must inform the employees of the International Office of the date of his departure, because notification of migration registration is forwarded to DFMS within 2 days after foreigner’s departure.

 

 

Single entry visa is issued for the period of up to three months according to the dates of invitation. It could be extended by issuing new multiple entry and exit visa in the Department of the Federal Migration Service of Omsk region. The foreigner is reregistered for duration of contract and is issued multi-entry visa for duration of contract but for the period of up to 1 year.  The deadline of contract is the latest date of stay in Russian Federation.

 

To start the arrangement of reregistration and multi-entry visa, we need:

·        passport

·        migration card

·        notification of migration registration(first one)

·        contract*

·        copy of return ticket* (if any)

·        address/place of residence in Omsk

·        visa application (form is filled in by foreign citizen in International Office)

·        4 photo (3*4, black-and-white or colored)

·        400 roubles (state duty for invitation preparation)¹

 

* The foreign teacher or student is registered for duration of contract. The latest date of stay in RF is determined by deadline of contract. Please, buy the return ticket on the date previous to deadline of contract not to break the migration laws and regulations.

Multiple entry and exit visa is prepared by Federal Migration Services Department within 20 days. When applying for multi-entry visa the foreign citizen must bring all the documents one month before deadline of single visa.

 

The foreign teacher, lecturer or student must inform the employees of the International Office of the date of his departure, because notification of migration registration is forwarded to DFMS within 2 days after foreigner’s departure.

 

If the foreign teacher or student is going to participate in conference, seminar and etc. in another city of Russian Federation consider the following:

·        When in another city during 3 days and more the foreign citizen should be registered at a place of stay in another RF city. The foreign citizen should have request of registration from OmSU about him.

 

The foreign teacher, lecturer or student must inform the employees of the International Office of the date of his exit from the RF, because notification of migration registration is forwarded to DFMS within 2 days after foreigner’s departure. After coming back the foreign citizen must be reregistered within 3 days.

To be registered in DFMS for duration of multi-entry visa the foreign citizen should bring to International Office the following documents:

·        passport

·        migration card

·        multi-entry visa

·        address/place of residence in Omsk

·        contract