Visa, what is it? Visa( latin permission) – special authorize inscription( stamp, gluing in, protected from forgery), which is put in your foreign passport by officials representatives (consuls) that country which agrees to let you in.
Legislation of every country establishes its own law for incoming citizens ( or stateless person) on the territory. 99% of countries demand visa in foreigners passport, if between this and native country isn’t concluded a special non visa treaty.
The entrance to Commonwealth of Independent States is possible without foreign passport, its quite enough to show any other replaced document. The same practice exists in other countries too. Swede ia able to visit Finland without visa, only with its driving license.
Absolute non visa. Only active foreign passport demands. Visa formalize in embassy with invitation. Perhaps extra documents will be required (two way tickets, insurance. In this case visa can be chargeable or free. An example: the majority of countries , including Schengen zone and Scandinavian countries. . The avia-transit visa This visa validity from 12 till 48 o'clock is given out in some countries and entitles the owner lawfully pass from the international message plane to other international plane in a neutral zone of the given country airport, to move on a neutral zone of the airport, to stay in the hotel, but no more validity of the visa and without the right of customs pass and penetrations into the country
An example: the citizen of Russia follows from Delhi (India) to London (Great Britain) with plane changing in Rome (Italy). In this case, except the English entrance visa he should have an Italian avia-transit visa.
Its necessary to tell that the majority of countries have refused for the avia - transit visa and considers that the traveler who is staying in the neutral zone doesn’t require any visas.
Besides, this countries give special coupons with which you can enter the country before departure, the time makes 3-6-12 hours.
Transit visa
It entitles the owner to enter the country and stay there some time , usually for short time under a pretext of transit moving to the following country. To receive such visa is simple enough - it is necessary to motivate, that that country where you aspire to get, is ready to accept you
. An example: Its hard to get the Lithuanian entrance visa , but if you declare, that you follow to Kaliningrad – you will get transit visa for three days very quickly and without superfluous questions. An example: staying in saint-Petersburg (Russia) try to receive the transit Finnish visa to Sweden without the Swedish visa, and you will be refused.
But if you already have Swedish visa - you will get the Finnish transit very fast and without problems. Usually the transit visa costs more cheaply then the entrance (50-100 %), but lives short time - usually 3-5-7 days (less from 10 till 30 days). Frequency rate - the transit visa can be 1-folded, 2-folded or (less often) repeated. Depending on it you can pass the transit country 1, 2 or many times.
Single entry visa Gives the owner the right to enter the country for 1 time and to stay the period specified in the visa. Validity of the unitary visa from 7 till 30 day (less often from 3 or till 90 day, a deadline is - 183 day). Here it is necessary to note, that different countries adhere to different approaches for calculation of visa valid. Multi visa The difference between single and multi visa is that with this visa the owner can enter the country not once, but some limited number of times (for example. 3, 5, 10) or unlimited times, till visa valid.
Sometimes some of the countries enter into the visas the time limit - number of days which the owner can spend in the country , not leaving it. In this case usually imply, that you have M/N visa class , where M – the number of times which you can enter the country, and N - the number of days that you can stay during one visiting.
An example:
Finland on March, 05th, 1997 has given you the 6-fold visa for half a year (an expiry date on September, 04th 1997), and during each visit you cant stay in Finland more than 3 days. This means that you have 5/3 visa class. Among other multi visas the most desired once are visas where the quantity of entrances and the time of stay in the country is not limited (except for the general validity of the visa) On travelers slang these visas called 0/0( its not conveniently to speak and write " infinity on infinity " – easier to say " a zero on a zero ").
Non tourists visas. All the above described types of visas are presented as tourist, in other words they give the right to enter the country , to spent some money, but not to earn on leaving.. For legally work (i.e. on paid activity) are given other visas, called working visa (working permit) and immigration visa (gives a constant unlimited residence).To get this type of visa is not easy, its very long and difficult process, and this discussion is not included in this subject.
The police visa We can assume, the route of your campaign passes on frontier with Finland territory of Russia. There is very hot summer. Suddenly a strong forest fire starts to overtake you and to rescue yourself you tear wire entanglements and run to Finland. Or your yacht has got into a huge storm and has sunk at the coast of Canada, and you on saving balsa land on the Canadian coast. Or as a result of the engine breakage your single-motor plane makes emergency, and for saving your life you have to land in Zaire jungle.
You don’t have any visas in the passport – neither Finnish nor Canadian, Zaire, as you haven’t even planned to get there. In this case after your detection , rendering the necessary help and investigation of the reasons of your legally illegal hit in the country, to you can put in the passport the police visa for the period of your treatment and expectation of sending home (or in 3-rd country).
The visa, which is given to those who have illegally got in the country, but against their desire and under action of invincible force (force-majeur circumstances) – is called the police visa. The police visa is free-of-charge, but is given only in such unusual cases. To count on its reception in advance – is impossible.
The visa prices are fluctuating – from 0 up to 150 $, average at present time approximately makes 35-40 $. The prices and requirements can vary in consulates rather often – almost every week.
As well known, in one or another country there are disorders, military revolutions, wars and epidemics. Once a year Russian ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes special list of counties, where using Russian citizen’s passport is forbidden. Of course you can disturb this prohibition. If u get the visa of such country, visit it and will return to Russia alive, u won’t make an answer for this.
But if the trouble will get you anyway, like: arrest, torture, death penalty – to call for consul is hopeless. Even if your scream for help will be heard – you wont get any help, coz Russian ministry of Foreign Affairs doesn’t have this opportunity.
