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Here is our guide on how to prepare your documents for your private visa.
Step 1: VISA INVITATION
Download the latest invitation form for private visas below.
Step 2: VISA APPLICATION
Complete your visa application at visa.kdmid.ru. See our walk-through video on how to fill out the visa application HERE.
Step 3: PREPARE DOCUMENTS
Required Documents to Submit. READ!
These are the documents you’ll need to prepare to submit. READ!
- Color copy of notarized private invitation (notary stamp & signature MUST be on front page)
- Original signed passport (if not signed, your documents will be rejected) AND passport MUST have at least 2 completely FREE visa pages.
- Original signed visa application, completed at visa.kdmid.ru
- Printed out full page on letter, one-sided, nothing cut off or poorly printed.
- MAKE SURE SIGNATURE ON APPLICATION IS INSIDE BOX AND MATCHES PASSPORT SIGNATURE
- One passport photo taken no more than 6 months ago (one photo lightly glued to each application in the box)
- Proof of kinship. Marriage Certificate for spouses and Birth Certificate for children.
- Quality color scan of Marriage Certificate, if issued in USA or Russia. If not, original with apostille AND translation into English or Russian is required.
- Quality color scan of birth certificate, if issued in USA or Russia. If not, original with apostille AND translation into English or Russian is required.
- Quality color scan of applicant’s main page of passport
- Quality color scan of spouse’s (or inviting person’s) zagran passport
- Quality color scan of spouse’s (or inviting person’s) Russian internal passport & propiska
- Quality color scan of spouse’s (or inviting person’s) status in the USA (US passport, green card, etc), if applicable
Additional Documents Required
- IF traveling with minor children, quality color scan of each child birth certificate is required.
- IF you answered YES to having been arrested or convicted of an offense, include a signed letter of arrest. Download sample under downloads. Do not use the same words. The letter must be in your own words.
- IF you are visiting family members in Russia, you will most likely need to apply for a PRIVATE visa. Order that HERE.
- IF you were born in the USSR/Russia, proof of not having Russian citizenship is needed. If you cannot provide proof, include the declaration of absence of Russian citizenship (under downloads).
Step 4: VERIFY DOCUMENTS
Email copies of your documents to [email protected] to make sure all documents are in order BEFORE you physically mail out your documents.
Step 5: MAIL DOCUMENTS
Once your documents are approved by Let’s Russia, use the Fedex shipping label provided by Let’s Russia to physically mail in your documents to Let’s Russia.
Downloads
Take this private invitation form to your local notary. Request they draw up a form using ONLY the text from this invitation form. Be sure that the notary stamps and signs on the same front page, NOT the reverse side or a separate page. We’ll just need a clear copy of this notarized letter.
Write the name of the person you’re inviting in Cyrillic and English like this: Джон Майкл Джонсон (John Michael Johnson)
The period of time the visa will be valid is up to 3 years. Put 3 years minus one day such as June 15, 2021 – June 14, 2024.
If the passport expires sooner than 6 months from the proposed visa end date, the private visa will not be for the full 3 years. You’ll need to put the visa end date as the passport expiration date minus 6 months and one day. For example, if the passport expires September 20, 2023, the visa will be granted maximum until March 19, 2023.
Fill out the private invitation form.
Write the name of the person you’re inviting in Cyrillic and English like this: Джон Майкл Джонсон (John Michael Johnson)
The period of time the visa will be valid is up to 3 years. Put 3 years minus one day such as June 15, 2021 – June 14, 2024.
If the passport expires sooner than 6 months from the proposed visa end date, the private visa will not be for the full 3 years. You’ll need to put the visa end date as the passport expiration date minus 6 months and one day. For example, if the passport expires September 20, 2023, the visa will be granted maximum until March 19, 2023.
Take this form to a local notary who can notarized documents in Russian. Call up your local bank and request a notary who can notarize a document in Russian. They may do it for free.
Be sure that the notary stamps and signs on the same front page, NOT the reverse side or a separate page. We’ll just need a clear color copy of this notarized letter along with color copies of the inviting person’s Russian internal passport (main page) and propiska (registration stamp).