New Russian Visa registration forms

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If ones girl fiend has time and stomach to spend a day in OVIR for getting your Invitation (for home stay visa) done and sent to you (and it needs to be done well in advance you depart form your home, about a month), and then she would spend another 2 to 8 hours to get you registered, then it is fine. If one has either business or tourist visa, s/he can book a hotel and get registered there for free.

It took my fiancee just one trip less than an hour to fill out the form for getting a private visa. All it takes is calling in advance to find when to come in for that kind of service. And registration took us less than 30 minutes because two people were waiting in line before us. Even if it took longer we were spending time together anyway. To be honest we waited much longer for our AOS interview at the CIS office here in the states then for the silly registration stamp at the OVIR.

As for doing things way in advance, I usually plan any trip way in advance. Tickets are usually cheaper and it takes time to request vacation time and most of the time there is only one time slot in the year that could work for me. If you do the private visa you get the full 90 day registration regardless of how long you stay and you don't to need to worry anymore about not having enough days as is the issue with the hotels.