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How to obtain a private invitation Visa to visit Russia

If you have made plans to visit your Russian woman in Russia, then you need a visa to enter Russia.
In this case there are two kinds of visa you can use:

1. Using a tourist visa you need (to hand over the Russian Embassy in your country):
   1. A hotel booking.
      Confirmation documents from your hotel:
   2. The voucher of your hotel booking or reservation documents.
   3. An invitation of the hotel (the hotel need to be registered at the Ministry of Foreign affairs and they need to send you their reference number).
   4. Copy from your health care insurance (must be valid in Russia).
   5. A recent passport photo (black-white or color) preferable not on shining photo paper.
   6. Most of the times the Russian Embassy in your country wants to see an airline ticket
   7. A filled up and signed (including the photo) visa request form.
2. Using a private visa your need:
   1. Send a copy of your passport to your inviter (the Russian woman you want to visit).
   2. Your inviter needs to request a copy from her employer statement.
   3. Your inviter needs to make a copy of her passport
   4. Your inviter applies for a private invitation at the nearest OVIR ofice (*)
      It takes about one month to receive the invitation and costs about USD 15,-
   5. Your inviter sends the original invitation to you
   6. Then you go to the Russian Embassy of your country and apply for a private visa using items 4 to 7 of the items listed under (1), including the invitation (see for an example the photo).

(*) OVIR

This is a department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is situated in almost all cities of Russia. Large cities even have more offices. This department is accommodated at the police station of the city/village you Russian woman lives.

For more information about visa, please visit our Russian visa information section.

Example of a private invitation. Please let your inviter check all fields for correct data before sending it to you.

Article written by Irina Sbitneva, owner of Russian Women Info.com

Maybe this title sounds obvious for you, but I wish that all men would put this title above their computer screens

It is by sending money men breed dating scammers. If all men stopped sending money, dating scammers would become extinct. This is why all decent dating agencies prohibit money requests and sending money from one member to another.

Scammers (especially the ones who have send beautiful pictures of beautiful looking women) are trying anything to get your money. Begging for that extra money to buy a visa, or they write you how expensive medicines are in Russia (which is not). Or their Internet access is cutoff because of late payments and now they need money for Internet cafe’s to contact you. Just don’t believe all this crap!

Remember one thing, a decent, serious Russian woman looking for a partner will never ask you any money for anything. Even when she is really broke, can’t feed herself or whatever, she never will ask (or even tell) you anything if she is in some financial unfavourable circumstances.
And if someone does, then stop your communication with her, she is probably a scammer.

If you like to read more about Russian Dating Scams and how to avoid or recognize psosible scam, then I suggest to read my mini e-book: How to protect yourself from online dating scams

Related article: Magic visas for online Russian brides

This is the first important action when you want to get a woman interested in you. Your first letter will give your chosen woman a first (and most important) impression of what kind of man you are. This letter will make her decide if she wants to respond to you or not. So here are some of our tips.

Write about the following subjects:

• your personal information (age, single or divorced, kids, smoking yes/no, etc.)

• about your work (not too comprehensive in the first letter)

• where you live (country, city, house, apartment, surrounding, etc)

• about your hobbies

• what you like (in general) but also what you dislike

• detailed description of yourself (character, qualities)

• and above all:

• the reason why you are writing ‘her’ (and not only because she has a nice face) and also try to describe the kind of woman you are looking for. Don’t give her the impression that she is ‘number 20′ of your ‘women’s list’.

• (Let) Translate this letter in Russian. Even when her profile said that her English is good. It is highly recommended to translate your introduction letter. You will be way ahead of those who are only using English and you will be certain that she indeed have understand your comprehensive introduction letter.

Don’t forget to send (attach) some clear pictures (2 or 3) of you, it’s always nice to see a ‘face’ when reading about a person. Especially women can ‘read’ a man’s face more than you ever will understand. Include at least 2 good quality photo’s. One close up, smile at the “little bird” and dress yourself properly. The second one must be as close as possible but with the full length of your body, also of course dressed in a proper way.

After you finish your first letter, let one of your best friends or members of your family read it and ask if they recognize ‘you’ in this letter.
Don’t exaggerate, just be yourself, never write things to impress the woman in a way you can never accomplish.

This question is one of the most frequent questions men are asking me.

The answer for most (Western) countries is simple: ‘NO’
Although this is not a legal statement, you will find on many official Government sites the simple rules to receive a visa to enter a western country. (also visit my visa & immigration chapter in my RW Info guide)
For example, to enter the US as a single young Russian woman just to visit you, she only can (try) do this using a K1-fiancee visa. To obtain a (US/Canadian) tourist visa is in principal impossible for her.

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The European, US and other official immigration rules and procedures can differ from each other, but below is a list of documents your fiancée at least needs to marry you (or enter your country) in your country:

Note: Don’t use this as legal information, always use formal and official legal sources like the official website of your Embassy/Consulate in Russia. The below information has to be used as unofficial information. In our RWI guide we have a list of many official resources.

• Birth certificate.

• Proof that you both have a relationship (letters, emails, photo’s, airline tickets, hotel bills, etc.)
• US citizens only:
  Proof that she has first approved to give her contact information to the man through a marriage broker and has understand his background information (no criminal records etc.)

• Proof of authenticity of her birth certificate.

• Proof of being unmarried (or never married before).

• or

• Official divorcement documents.

• Official guardianship documents concerning her children if the biological father is known on the birth certificate of her children.

• Birth certificate of any children.

• Proof of authenticity of her children(s) birth certificate(s).

• Certificate of residence.

• Proof of authenticity of certificate of residence.

• Russian passport (with the stamp of her living place, “propiska”)

• Official translation (into your language) of all official documents.

• A visa to enter your country

Safe places to find your Russian women are agencies who use strict rules and policies to publish a woman’s profile. Especially for American men, an agency should comply the so-called International Marriage Broker Law, introduced in 2006.

Always read and ask the specific agency how they ‘check’ their Russian women before publishing them. It is also important to do some checking of the agency itself. It is necessary that a reliable agency has published their normal postal address, including real contact email addresses and phone numbers on their website. Also read their ‘about us’ page to read more about an agency. If you have any questions to convince yourself if a specific agency is reliable, then always start asking your questions to this agency before ordering any of their offered services, for example you can ask them what their anti-scam policy is.

You can read more about ’safety’ in our RWI guide, for example our mini e-book:

How to protect yourself from online dating scams

Dating a Russian woman is not the same like dating a person in a popular pub next to your corner. In fact ‘dating a Russian woman’ means, that you first communicate without ’seeing’ each other. And after the first or second personal meeting, you both have to decide if you want to marry each other or not.

Quick decisions, possible pitfalls, unfamiliar culture, long traveling, these are some subjects you should make familiar to you. Read the informational topics in my online Russian women guide and you will learn why. Or better, use my information to prepare yourself to enter the exciting world of dating Russian women.