Visa Prolongation
Multiple-entry visa:
replaces your single-entry visa
allows you to re-enter the country multiple times
is given only for the duration of your study period at HSE University
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Step 1 (not later than 45 days before your visa expiry date)
Collect your application package:
1. a photocopy of passport pages with stamps, marks and previous visas
2. a receipt confirming payment of a visa extension fee (1 920 roubles). Please contact the Visa and Registration Center at visa-registration@hse.ru to receive a payment slip. Please do not use Sberbank online or a terminal for the fee payment. Pay the fee at the checkout window in Sberbank by giving the payment slip to a bank cashier
3. migration card original + photocopy
4. registration slip original + photocopy
5. 1 photo 35mm*45mm (color)
6. enrollment documents from SIMO
7. your contract (for fee-paying students)
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Step 2
Submit your documents to the Student Service Centre (11 Pokrovsky Boulevard, Entrance No. 5 (to the right from Entrance No. 1)) during visiting hours: Mon. – Fri. 2 pm – 6 pm
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Step 3
Closer to the expiry date of your visa, receive a notification from the Visa and Registration Centre. Bring your passport for getting a new visa.
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Step 4
You apply for migration registration prolongation within 3 days from the date of issue of your new visa.
Multiple-entry visa becomes valid straight after the day your single-entry visa expires. If you need to leave Russia before your single-entry visa expires, you can return to Russia only via obtaining a new invitation and applying for a new single-entry visa in your country of residence.
NB! If a student submits documents for the multiple-entry visa later than 45 days until the expiry of the current visa, Visa and Registration Centre will not accept them.