Russia e-visa: eligibility, requirements and application

Check the complete official nationality list. Listing is only one condition: confirm your passport type, purpose and travel dates in the official instructions before applying. This page does not make a nationality-specific entry decision.

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Use this overview to understand the route before starting an application.

• Prepare passport and application documents.

• Check the digital photo requirements.

• Read the application steps and find the official service.

• Understand processing and correction timing.

• Distinguish visa validity from the allowed stay.

• Check medical travel insurance for Russia.

• Read your application status.

Use passport nationality, purpose, travel dates and document type together. This guide does not provide a personal route decision; check the official instructions for your case.

1. Read the current portal instructions and confirm the route.

2. Prepare the passport data image and face photograph.

3. Create your own official account, complete the form and pay the official charge.

4. Check for correction requests in that account. See how to read your application status.

5. Read the decision and, if granted, keep the notification for your carrier and border control.

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This guidance concerns a national passport, a qualifying short visit and travel without Russian citizenship or a special status. Work, study, residence, unusual documents and a transit-only journey require a separate assessment. The portal also lists specified event purposes; describe the real purpose rather than selecting tourism to fit the form.

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For an e-visa stay, the portal requires medical insurance valid in Russia for the whole stay, subject to reciprocity exceptions. We have not established whether an exception applies to your nationality. Read the travel insurance for Russia: requirements and policy checklist before choosing a policy.

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Government charge: check the amount and payment currency in the official application. A consular-fee exemption for a child under 6 does not establish that all payment charges are waived.

Assistance fee: no paid application service is available here yet.

Medical insurance: priced separately under the insurer’s terms; no quote is available here.

The official portal states that processing payments are non-refundable irrespective of the decision.

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Use the official checkpoint list for both arrival and departure. Separately confirm that the crossing and your transport are operating; an authorised entry point is not a transport timetable.

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Russian Visa Guide is an independent information service, not a Russian government website. We do not guarantee a visa, entry or a decision date.

• Check passport and document requirements

• Find the official e-visa application steps

• Plan the allowed stay and visa validity