According to the Consular section of the Russian Embassy in London, Russian visas issuance increased by 3% in the first half of 2011 in comparison with the same period of 2010, reaching 49500.
The Russian side is doing its best to ease the visa procedures for citizens of foreign countries. The Russian Embassy Consular section, the Russian General Consulate in Edinburgh and their visa application centres strictly keep the visa processing time at five working days for regular service and the next day for urgent service available for extra charge. The Russian Visa centres provide comfortable conditions for the applicants and it takes only 10-15 minutes to make an application. In the nearest future new specially equipped VIP premises will be functioning in the Visa application centres.
For technical reasons Russian Visa Application Centre in London will not be accepting visa applications for next day service effective 15 May 2012 until further notice. We are doing our best to resolve the problem as soon as possible. We would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Due to national holidays the Russian Embassy in London will not work on 1 and 9 May, as well as on Saturday 5 May and Sunday 6 May. 30 April, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8 May will be working days.
Information about lost and found Russian passports and other documents may be found in directory «Утерянные или украденные документы граждан РФ» on the Russian version of the Consular part of the Russian Embassy’s web-site.
From the 1st September 2011 the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Great Britain and Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Edinburgh will only be accepting visa application forms completed online on the special website of Consular Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation http://evisa.kdmid.ru.
From the said date visa application forms taken from other Internet sources as well as hand-written visa application forms will not be accepted.
On July 1, 2011, the Russian Embassy in the Great Britain, as well as the Russian Consulate General in Edunburgh, started to accept visa application forms completed through the special web-site of the Consular Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry http://evisa.kdmid.ru/.
Unfortunately, due to technical problems on the server of the Consular Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, visa applications are being completed with some minor failures. The Consular Section of the Russian Embassy makes all possible efforts to resolve the issue and apologizes for any inconvenience caused.
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