Registration your Riussian visa in Ekaterinburg OVIR

Easy registration by Ekaterinburg Travel agency

All foreign citizens arriving in Russia must register their visa within three working days, except weekends and holidays. Visitors who stay less than three working days may not notify about their arrival.

In order to get registered you have to notify Administration of Federal Migration Service (AFMS) about your arrival by filling in the following form:

Arrival Notification Form, 115 Kb

If you are staying in a hotel, the hotel should register your visa for the period of your stay. Be sure to request this service.

If you arrived on a tourist visa, but you do not stay at the hotel but with your friends or renting an apartment, the owner of the apartment, where you stay, should register your visa in the local AFMS office.

If you have arrived with a Private visa, the person who invited you should register your visa at the local department of Administration of Federal Migration Service AFMS).

AFMS address: 36, Sverdlova str.,

Chief: Semochkin I.A.

Phone 7 343 353-61-19, 378-15-87

How to get there:

Buses # 23, 31, 57, 60; trolleybuses # 1,3,4,5,9,15,17,18,19, stop "Kino Ural".


AFMS	Kino Ural stop

Follow down between Sverdlova 34 and 56 buildings to reach AFMS

Do-it-yourself registration

If you have come to Ekaterinburg and stayed in the apartment, you have to visit this office within 3 days, get notification form in room #2 and fill it in russian. If noone there to help you, don't be confused and ask for help, in general, Russian people are very responsive. However there would be very few russians there, and most of them are uncertain how to fill this form :(

Then, get it back to the room #2. Have your passport and migration card copis with you. AMFS office is open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays only, from 9 am till 12 am and from 2 pm till 4 pm. Having filled in a form in Russian, you will get the registration receipt :)

Usually there are many people in a line near the room #2, so we recommend you to come there in advance. If AFMS office is closed, there is another way to get your visa registered: go to the main post office (address Lenina st, 39), international department, window #3.

We strongly recommend you to have a Russian-speaking friend or translator with you, who will help you to win Russian bureaucracy. However, if you have enough time, courage and persistency, you can do it yourself.

Easy registration by Ekaterinburg Travel agency

Complicated, huh? If you want to get your visa registered without stress and save your time, Ekaterinburg Travel agency will help you to register your visa in Ekaterinburg department of Administration of Federal Migration Service (AFMS, OVIR). We need only your passport and migration card Just drop by your passport with migration card to our office any time during working hours and we will do everything for you. Our fee is $25 (800 rubles).

As a confirmation of registration you get the part of the notification form stamped by the AFMS. Just before leaving Russia, you have to return this part of the notification form to the inviting company or person who you are registered with. The procedure has to be repeated every time you re-enter Russia.

Registration of 1 year valid multiple-entry visas is done for 3 months maximum, according to the migration Law, you can only stay in Russia for 90 days within each 180 days.

If you have troubles, call us 7 343 253-16-89 and we will help you.

Denial of visa registration

If you have stayed at a hotel, you don't have to worry, your hotel will register your visa. If you haven't registered your visa, well, no problem with local police, but if it is found out on Customs when you leave, you will have to pay some fee and face some delay with documents processing.

Visa extension and exit visa

A Russian visa cannot be extended. All travelers should respect the rules and cannot stay in Russia even one day more after the visa expires. If you need to stay you should have a strong reason - no flights available for the requested period (you will be asked to present a reference from a travel agent) or being sick (you will have to present the medical certificate). You will have to apply for an exit visa to OVIR, if your application is approved you will be granted an exit visa for the period up to 10 days within this period you will have to leave Russia.

Migration card

Migration card is given on board (in the train) or at the border check point. Keep it and provide upon departure at the customs, if lost, apply to Ekaterinburg Travel agency to restore it.