There is a significant difference between the official post and delivery companies. Previously I have told how my student exchange application papers travelled one month from Finland to Russia. My invitation letter was posted by RANEPA by DHL letter and arrived in two days. The fun had its price: I read from the dispatch note that the letter cost 3,000 something (probably rubles, it did not show the currency). On current exchange rates, it woul mean 71.14 euros. Ouch.
Another happy news today: my new HIV/AIDS certificate is available - even though I was supposed to get it one and a half weeks later! I picked up the certificate from my health-care centre, called to my school's insurance company that their paper is actually valid for visa application and then started to fill in the form on the Internet. Looks like I am finally getting all my missing pieces into one pile. :)
Filling in a visa application is exciting. I checked five times that I had filled in everything right. I almost wrote my passport number wrong, which made me even more nervous with right spellings. I had filled the application for a while, when I managed to shut down my browser. Of course I did not save my application to the database while proceeding!
When I applied for a student visa, I needed to specify which kind of a student visa I apply for. Options included i.e. "courses", "post-graduate" (why is there no "undergraduate" option at all?) and "probation period". In my invitation letter, no other specification than "study" was provided, so I chose "study". It should not go too wrong then.
Which name to put as an inviting organization? The English or Russian name ofthe school? The English name was too long for the gap. Then I put the exact name written in the invitation letter, though transliterated, because I was filling in the form in Latin letters. Now it looks better.
The applicant needs to mark to the form where to leave the application. The office for VFS Global is situated in Urho Kekkosen katu in Helsinki, and on the website there is a time reservation system available. After booking a time I notice that I had reserved a time from Russian Consulate to Vuorimiehenkatu. No, this was not supposed to happen. After a quick call I learn that I do not need to reserve a time for VFS Global at all. Sounds good that I could cancel my time to the Consulate.
I closed the browser accidentally (again). This time I had conscientiously saved the form, so there was no problem in reopening it. I wondered for a while how I printed the form last time, until I realized that I needed to take one more step to check my information and print out the paper. Of course.
Now I should have all I need for the Russian student visa, as the picture below shows.
Oops, I already tore the packet before taking the picture!
Filling in a visa application is exciting. I checked five times that I had filled in everything right. I almost wrote my passport number wrong, which made me even more nervous with right spellings. I had filled the application for a while, when I managed to shut down my browser. Of course I did not save my application to the database while proceeding!
When I applied for a student visa, I needed to specify which kind of a student visa I apply for. Options included i.e. "courses", "post-graduate" (why is there no "undergraduate" option at all?) and "probation period". In my invitation letter, no other specification than "study" was provided, so I chose "study". It should not go too wrong then.
Which name to put as an inviting organization? The English or Russian name ofthe school? The English name was too long for the gap. Then I put the exact name written in the invitation letter, though transliterated, because I was filling in the form in Latin letters. Now it looks better.
The applicant needs to mark to the form where to leave the application. The office for VFS Global is situated in Urho Kekkosen katu in Helsinki, and on the website there is a time reservation system available. After booking a time I notice that I had reserved a time from Russian Consulate to Vuorimiehenkatu. No, this was not supposed to happen. After a quick call I learn that I do not need to reserve a time for VFS Global at all. Sounds good that I could cancel my time to the Consulate.
I closed the browser accidentally (again). This time I had conscientiously saved the form, so there was no problem in reopening it. I wondered for a while how I printed the form last time, until I realized that I needed to take one more step to check my information and print out the paper. Of course.
Now I should have all I need for the Russian student visa, as the picture below shows.
From left to right: HIV/AIDS certificate, insurance certificate, visa application with passport picture, invitation by Russian Invitation Agency and passport.
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