Dear foreign guests!
According to the requirements of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) and the Russian legislation for foreign colleagues to participate in the conference it is necessary to make a humanitarian visa, which includes scientific and technical visa. Participation in the conference of foreign participants with a tourist or business visa is prohibited by the FMS rules.
Humanitarian visa is prepared on the basis of an invitation letter, which is made by the conference organizing committee for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Russia. For invitation letter preparation please send e-mail with the subject “Visa for PLANT GENETICS AND GENOMICS FOR FOOD SECURITY – 2016” to the person in charge – academic secretary for international relations Dr. Nadejda Dmitrieva dmitrieva.nadine@gmail.com and copy to the organizing committee to nskvogis@icg.sbras.ru.
Visa invitation is prepared for free in 2 weeks for residents of USA, China, Japan, Austria, Belgium,Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg,Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, France, Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia.
The letter should contain following data:
- Passport copy (the page with photo) (PDF or any graphics format)
- Complete office address
- Complete home address
- Position
- Post code
- Fax number
- Phone number
- The name of the city where the visa have to be prepared (in the Russian consulate in the country).
For residents of other countries (not included in the list of the countries listed above), the cost of processing the visa invitation is 800 rubles. Turnaround time – 1, 5 months. Payment will be carried out on arrival at the conference (at the registration).
IMPORTANT: for residents of these countries for preparation of visa invitations, along with the rest of the documents listed above, it is necessary to send a complete copy of your passport (including blank pages).
For questions regarding the visa invitations, please contact responsible person: Dmitrieva Nadezhda, dmitrieva.nadine@gmail.com, tel. + 7-913-373-67-76 and the organizing committee nskvogis@icg.sbras.ru.