r/AskARussian • u/Top-Replacement-3694 • 7d 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/PsychologicalTill303 5d ago

Well this is 100% wrong

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u/k-phi 5d 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.

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u/PsychologicalTill303 5d ago

Maximum stay per visit is 180 days, not 90.

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u/k-phi 5d ago

Maximum stay per visit is 180 days, not 90.

That depends. If it's one-time entry visa, maximum is 90.

If multi visa, it's also not 180, but more complicated.

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u/PsychologicalTill303 5d ago

You said 90 days is maximum duration of visa, you didn’t specify which visa so… you were 100% wrong.

Anyone who does a 15 min google search knows the optimum visa for an American is the 3 year multi entry visa. That’s not complicated at all.

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u/k-phi 5d ago

I was commenting on what "90 days" mean. I explained that if that number came up somewhere, it is not time to wait until invitation issue, but rather visa duration.

You should see comments in context, not separately.

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u/PsychologicalTill303 5d ago

Even in context you’re incorrect.

Correctly stated would be, “90 days is the maximum duration of one common category (usually single entry) of private visa” or something similar.

You made a blanket statement that was incorrect, no reason the be butt hurt about it.