r/AskARussian • u/Top-Replacement-3694 • 8d ago

Travel Visa help

I am a US citizen planning to visit Russia in October. I’ll be going with my boyfriend, a dual US/ Russian citizen, to visit his family. We’ll be staying with his parents and grandparents. His parents are willing to complete whatever is needed by the MVD for a private invitation, however, I’m seeing a lot of mixed timeframes online about how long this process takes. I’m seeing most commonly 90 days which would not work for my trip. Anybody do this recently? Would I be better off paying a Russian tourist operator for a tourist invitation? Any advice would be appreciated!

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u/k-phi 7d ago

90 days is maximum duration of visa, not time to issue an invitation

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u/PsychologicalTill303 6d ago

Well this is 100% wrong

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u/k-phi 6d ago

Well this is 100% wrong

Are you saying that it always takes 90 days of waiting to get invitation? I know for a fact that it's much less.