Visa Registration Help Needed - Russia
We are two UK guys on a RTW with UK passports and 6 month multi entry business visas and we have arrived in Vladivostok and are staying here in the Hotel Vladivostok until our bikes arrive from Seattle.
The notes from the visa agency say that if we are staying longer than 3 days we have to register our visa with the UFMS
I asked our hotel reception to register for us and they say not needed. We have a customs clearing agent booked (Yuri Melnikov) to help us clear our bikes and we went to see him this morning and he said the same - not needed. He said that it used to be the case but not now. He has taken travellers to the UFMS offices but they are not interested anymore.
Can anyone recently through Vladivostok advise us then if it really is necessary to register when everyone we ask here in Vladivostok says no.
Thanks
Martin
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