Russia eVisa Requirements 5 views

Two Documents, Not a Dozen. Somewhere between deciding to visit Russia and actually boarding a flight sits a short but important checklist. Getting the Russia eVisa requirements right the first time saves a round of back-and-forth with visa support later.

A passport comes first valid at least six months past arrival, with a clean colour scan of the bio page showing the machine-readable zone clearly, plus at least one blank page free for a border stamp. Alongside that sits a recent photograph, unedited, taken against a plain light backdrop within the last six months.

Names entered on the application form have to match the passport's machine-readable zone exactly, since mismatched spelling is one of the more common reasons applications bounce back. Health insurance isn't mandatory for the application itself, but border officers do ask for it fairly often, so carrying proof rarely hurts.