Check Russia e-visa application status

Use this guide when you already have a unified e-visa application and want to understand its account status. For the entry route and its conditions, start with the e-visa overview. This page does not determine whether you qualify or whether you may enter Russia.

Still preparing a first application? Read how to apply and the document checklist. The steps below concern checking an existing application.

Read the comments and decision in the official account rather than guessing from an email or elapsed time. For timing context, use the processing-time guide. This website has no access to your application and cannot change its status.

1. Open the official MFA instructions and use Sign in to enter the account you used for the application, or open the MFA mobile app.

2. Find your application and read its current status and any field comments.

3. Use the next step in the status table. When a decision is available, open the result PDF and read the decision itself.

Keep login details and application identifiers on the official service. There is no status form on this website.

Last checked 5 October 2026. MFA application instructions.

The MFA also uses Accepted for processing later in its instructions, after application validation. Treat the words displayed in your own account in context; the table above is a reading aid, not a timer or a guaranteed sequence.

Last checked 5 October 2026. MFA application instructions.

Read the comments beside the flagged fields in your official account, correct the information and submit the amended application for reprocessing. Saving edits is not the same as resubmitting.

The MFA states that an application with incorrect information is returned for editing no later than two calendar days after submission. This is the authority's return-for-editing interval, not a two-day deadline given to you to make corrections. Processing resumes only after resubmission, whose date and time become the submission date and time.

Do not leave a correction request unanswered. The official portal acknowledgement says that when an application is returned for revision, you have 10 days to make the corrections and no additional payment is required. It says that expiration of this period leads to a refusal notification and the paid fee is non-refundable. Read the notice in your own account for the applicable deadline; this guide does not calculate it.

For the broader timing rules, read processing time and the application window. No decision date is guaranteed here.

Last checked 5 October 2026. MFA application instructions.

When the account shows Processing completed, open your application in the official MFA account and download the result PDF. Read the decision itself before treating the application as approved. If it is positive, print the e-visa notification or save it on your mobile device so you can show it to transport-company representatives and border officers.

Use the official account or MFA app to check progress and correction requests. Russian Visa Guide cannot retrieve a PDF, verify its authenticity or check a visa by passport number. The separate carrier validity check is explained below.

Checked 13 October 2026. MFA decision and notification instructions.

The separate MFA validity-check website describes its purpose as verification by transport-company representatives for boarding. It is not the applicant account described above. For progress, correction requests and the result of your application, use your official account or the MFA app.

Do not enter passport details, application numbers or verification codes on Russian Visa Guide.

Last checked 5 October 2026. Carrier validity-check heading · Applicant instructions.

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

Use the account steps above to check progress, the status table to interpret labels, and the download section to read the decision. Application status, document authenticity and the carrier boarding check are separate tasks.