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100,000 foreigners want to visit St. Petersburg with electronic visas

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100,000 foreigners want to visit St. Petersburg with electronic visas


30.12.2019

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About one hundred thousand of foreigners have already applied for electronic visas to visit St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti reports.

Citizens of more than fifty countries have already visited St.Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. Over the three months of the existence of electronic visas, more than sixty countries have used them. The new visa system began to operate on October 1.

The majority of applications come from Estonians, Latvians, French, Germans and Finns. The electronic visas were received by more than two thousand residents of the Philippines, about three hundred residents of Mexico, Japan and Indonesia. Most visitors arrive through Pulkovo Airport and the Ivangorod automobile checkpoint. More than twenty-seven thousand e-visa holders crossed the border through each of these checkpoints.

Russkiy Mir reported that the e-visas were available to citizens of fifty-three countries, a list of which was approved by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. President Vladimir Putin ordered the introduction of the relevant visa regime in July.

The permission to enter the territory of Russia is issued for a period of thirty days, but a visitor can stay in Russia for no more than eight days. An electronic visa is issued free of charge based on the application of a foreign citizen. It must be submitted four days before the date of entry.

Electronic visas in the Northern capital, it will be possible to actively promote new types of tourism.


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