Residence of the Ambassador of Finland in the Russian Federation together With the company VFS Global opens on the last working day of the week in Kaliningrad visa center, which will be accepted Application Not only for the visa in Finland, but also in certain other countries of the Schengen agreement.

" A partnership firm is VFS Global, which now oversees the visa application centres in Finland in the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Statements are sent from the common visa application centres in the Finnish diplomatic mission in Moscow or St. Petersburg for treatment, according to the report of the Embassy of Finland in the Russian capital.

Because of the need to spend time for delivery of documents to the visa application centre will Not issue emergency visas. This will be followed the visa processing time is 10 calendar days specified by the agreement between Russia and the EU on visa facilitation. The applicant may choose to submit the visa message to the nearest visa application centre or in the residence of the Ambassador of Finland in Moscow or the Consulate General in St. Petersburg. Requirements for application and service fee will be the same as When applying in the Russian capital and Saint Petersburg.

With fifteen September additional visa center of the Embassy of Finland has launched the process of working in Ufa, September 17 - in Irkutsk. Also open visa centers in Vyborg, Novgorod, Vologda and Pskov.

in Kaliningrad work of the Consulate General of Lithuania, Germany, Poland, the office of the consular Department of the Embassy of Latvia in the Russian Federation. Without leaving the Kaliningrad region, visas can be issued at the visa application centres in Poland, Italy, Spain, Austria, Malta, Bulgaria, Sweden, Czech Republic, Norway, Greece, Switzerland. In June 2014 the visa application centre of VFS Global organization in Kaliningrad has started to accept Applications for visa documents in Slovenia.

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