German Consulates General in Russia to Stop Accepting Visa Applications

RIA Novosti. The visa departments of the German Consulates General in Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Novosibirsk will stop accepting visa applications on May 31; documents will be processed only at the German Embassy in Moscow, according to a notice on the diplomatic mission’s website.

"Regardless of your region, all visa applications will be processed only at the German Embassy in Moscow. The visa departments of the Consulates General in Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Novosibirsk will stop accepting applications on 31.05.2023. VisaMetric visa centers located in the above-mentioned cities will continue to operate; however, because documents will have to be mailed from one region to another, longer application processing times should be expected," the notice says.

Starting June 1, appointments for submitting documents will also be arranged differently: it will no longer be possible to book directly with a visa department or a VisaMetric visa center. Applicants will have to add themselves to a waiting list through the embassy’s booking system, after which the embassy will schedule appointments for visa document submissions "in chronological order."

"Appointments for submitting Schengen visa applications in Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, and Novosibirsk will continue to be arranged through our service partner VisaMetric," the embassy explained.

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