UK Visa Application Center: addresses, work schedule, visa and additional services

To date, Russia has five visa centers in the Kingdom of England - in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don and Novosibirsk. Let us briefly examine the general and excellent moments in the work of these organizations.

Getting an English visa

Citizens of the Russian Federation are eligible to apply for a visa at any of the represented visa centers, regardless of the place of their permanent registration. Entry is possible only by prior appointment for filing of documentation, which is carried out after payment of necessary fees and filling in the questionnaire.

It is worth remembering that the UK visa centers do not advise visitors on the correctness of entering information in the questionnaire, the availability of certain documents. They only accept a ready-made package of necessary documentation. To obtain a visa, you must bring with you both originals and copies on A4 sheets of all necessary documents.

Before applying to the UK visa center in Moscow and other cities it is necessary to prepare the following:

• A visa application form, a copy of its first page, a photo (it is not necessary to glue);
• Valid and non-valid passports (if the latter are indicated in the questionnaire), photocopies of all their pages, including empty ones;
• Documentation confirming the information in the application form (job references, bank statements, documents on property) translated into English, as well as photocopies of each page;
• The applicant's consent to the processing of his personal data.

As for the cost, the approximate prices of the visa fee for tourist visas for 2017 are as follows:

• 6 months - 119 $;
• 2 years - 452 $;
• 5 years - 820 $;
• 10 years - 1028 $.

Addresses of visa centers

The UK Visa Application Center in Moscow is located at: Second Syromyatnichesky Lane, ow. 11/16. The easiest way to get here is by metro - you will need to get off at Kurskaya (ring) station or at Chkalovskaya station (follow the signs "Exit to Kursk station"). The trip to the center takes about five minutes. A reference point for you will serve as a noticeable glass round building "Delta Plaza".

The UK Visa Application Center in St. Petersburg can be found at Liteiny Avenue, 26. In Novosibirsk, the organization is located at: ul. Siberian, 57, in Rostov-on-Don - on the street. Suvorova, 93, in Yekaterinburg - on the street. Bolshakova, 70.

The schedule of functioning of visa centers

All visa centers in the UK work on the same schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:30 - 14:30 - receiving sets of documents, 8:30 - 16:00 - issuing finished documents.

The holidays of the British organization are different from the Russian ones. Be careful, the center is closed on the following days of 2017:

• 2.01-3.01 - New Year.
• 9.01 - Christmas at the Orthodox.
• 8.03 - Women's Day.
• 14.04 - Good Friday.
• 1.05 - Day of Spring and Labor.
• 9.05 - Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
• 29.05 - Bank holiday.
• 12.06 - The Day of Independence of the Russian Federation.
• 28.08 - Banking day in England.
• 6.11 - Day of National Unity in the Russian Federation.
• 25.12 - Holiday of gifts.
• 26.12 - Catholic Christmas.

Additional services of visa centers

Visa centers in the UK in St. Petersburg, Moscow and other cities also represent a number of convenient non-binding related services for a fee. To familiarize with their features and cost you can in the table further.

Thus, the UK visa centers in Russian cities, in addition to the main activities, provide travelers with a number of related convenient services. And in order to avoid misunderstanding when referring to these organizations, it is necessary to remember the peculiarities of their work, the requirements for the documents provided by visitors.