Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Where is everyone from in Russia?	Vera is from St. Petersburg, her mother is from Belarus and my grandmother from the Ukraine. How is that for covering al bases of the forum!   You know I saw Vera in the US Embassy last Thursday! I was there with Natasha to get her visa and if I remember right she was the first one to be interviewed? Just out of curiousity since there's already a thread about the US: where are the beneficiaries from in Russia? I'm in Moscow, me.   Natasha is from Samara, Russia	paws057	Male	Russia	2013-07-21 06:15:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Need help understanding K-1 visa fees (Russia)	The Visa Journey webpage on the Moscow embassy indicates that there is a $350 visa fee on top of the $240 MRV application fee. However the country reciprocity schedule on the State Department website (http://travel.state....5.html?cid=8941) for Russia indicates that there is no visa reciprocity/issuance fee for K-1 applicants. Is this some other sort of fee? Or is the Visa Journey page out of date? I want to make sure that my fiancee doesn't get surprised at the Embassy!   The fee for the visa is 240 dollars. I'm not sure what the 350 is for but the visa itself is $240	paws057	Male	Russia	2013-07-22 09:05:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	A few thoughts on the Embassy in Moscow	Again, just from the US tourist visa experience (and a couple of other embassies with time-specific appointments): there are only so many time slots at a given time. Normally people at ten allow people at 8 to stand in front to be there when their time slot is coming and not make them stand after them because they will not be handled earlier anyway. So usually there are little groups in the line like 'at 8', 'at 8:30', 'at 9', etc. and you just join yours (of course after politely checking that it is and all that).   , I didn't know that? We just waited in line and it all worked out for us anyway! Like I said the line moved pretty fast.	paws057	Male	Russia	2013-07-22 11:36:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	A few thoughts on the Embassy in Moscow	Er, don't you have a time-specific appointment? In the queue from my experience with tourist visa there are sections by time, so if you're at 8 and there are already people who are scheduled at 9 in the queue you join the people who are scheduled at 8.   Yes, we had an 8am appointment but not much you can do when people that are scheduled for 10am appointments are ahead of you in line. I suppose we got inside the embassy around 8:15 so not to late really. We only waited about 15 minutes for her to hand in the paperwork but that was after the fingerprints and all of that. Most of the people there were trying to get tourist or other types of visa's. In our section there was only two K1 visa's scheduled for that morning.	paws057	Male	Russia	2013-07-22 08:56:00