Visa to Russia from Sudan

Sudanese passport

Russian tourist visa for Sudanese citizens

If a Sudanese citizen plans to visit Russia for tourism, he needs to apply for a tourist visa. In this case he will need a tourist invitation letter.

Read more: Russian tourist visa for foreigners

You can quickly obtain such invitation by making a request to a travel agency. Only those travel agencies, which have its own reference number, have a right to issue tourist invitations.

An appearance of tourist invitations doesn’t set by the law, so they are printed in a travel agency’s way. But there must be indicated a complete information about travel agency and invited Sudanese citizen, his trip’s plan (with specification of cities and hotels) and the dates of trip.

After obtaining a tourist invitation, Sudanese citizen will have to prove in the consular section that his purpose of visit is tourism. This procedure is used for all countries from the List of Migration Risk countries.

If all documents presented by foreign citizen is okay and there is a positive solution to issue him a visa, then he will obtain Russian tourist visa for the period indicated in an invitation. This period can’t exceed 30 days.

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Russian private (homestay) visa for Sudanese citizens

In order to make Sudanese citizen’s arrival come true with a private purpose of visit, it is needed to issue a homestay invitation by an inviting party (a relative or a friend living in Russia).

For doing this, a person who wants to invite Sudanese citizen to the Russian Federation, needs to contact a Federal migration service section on his residence’s administrative unit and submit a homestay invitation application. With an application he needs to submit a copy of his passport and invited foreign citizen’s passport, incoming statement and a guarantee letter, in which he commits to provide an accommodation, medical care and livelihood for a foreigner for the whole period of his stay in the Russian Federation. Inasmuch Sudan is in the list of High Migration Risk countries, so an inviting person will be invited for an interview with a FMS officer during which he should explain the purposes of Sudanese citizen’s visit to Russia.  

Please note! We do not recommend using a private visa!
Find out why: Why not apply for a private visa?

Read more: Russian Private Visa

After the end of the statutory period, there will be issued a reasoned refusal in written form or an invitation on the FMS letterhead. An invitation need to be sent to invited foreigner.

Visa could be issued to a possessor of a homestay invitation for up to 90 days. Such visa is for single or double entries.

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Russian business visa for Sudanese citizens

Sudanese citizens, which plan to visit Russia to sign a contract or for extending business cooperation, need to apply for business visa in Russian consular section at first. In order to make his documents for business visa application submitted, it is needed to get a business invitation letter issued properly from any Russian organization.

Read more: Russian Business Visa

The business visa invitation letter can be obtained by either of these ways:

Organizations authorized in the Consular department of the Ministry of foreign affairs of Russia or in the Federal Migration Service have a right to issue business invitations in a form of letter. Such invitation prints on the inviting organization’s letterhead and contains a request to Russian consular section abroad to issue a business visa to a certain foreign citizen. Such invitation assures by the seal of an organization and by a sign of its head.

In order to issue an invitation on the FMS letterhead, a legal entity need to apply for it to authorized state bodies. Besides an application, some documents such as guarantee letter is needed. Guarantee letter uses in case, when an origin country of invited citizen is in the List of Migration Risk countries.

An invitation through Telex sends straightly from the Ministry of foreign affairs to the consular section abroad. This invitation contains an order to issue a business visa to a certain foreign citizen. The convenience of such invitation is that there is no need to send it through a post service, Telex number is all you need to know.

Read more: What is the difference between Telex and the original invitation

Business visas are for single, double or multiply entries. They can be issued for up to 1 year.

Order Russian business invitation to Russia for Sudanese citizens in the form of the letter from an organization

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Order Russian business invitation to Russia for Sudanese citizens on the FMS letterhead

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Order Russian business invitation to Russia for Sudanese citizens through Telex

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Russian work visa for Sudanese citizens

If Sudanese citizen wants to obtain a visa, using which it is possible to stay in Russia for a whole year and which can be prolonged for an unlimited number of times, he needs to find an employer in Russia. Employer company must have a permission to hire employees from abroad. 

Read more: Russian work visa for foreigners

Company, which has such permission and interested in a visit of a certain Sudanese citizen to the Russian Federation, will submit all necessary documents to a state bodies and obtain for him a work permit and work invitation letter. These documents need to be sent to an invited person by an express mail.

After Sudanese citizen will obtain all these documents, he will be able to apply for a work visa and visit Russian Federation. After doing so, he must arrive at the disposal of an employer and register in the Federal Migration Service. An employer is responsible to control that his employees do not violate the visa regime.

Work visa issues for 1 year. Herewith it can be prolonged every year. 

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Russian Electronic Visa from Sudan

An electronic visa (hereinafter referred to as "e-visa") is a new type of a visa document. A visa invitation to Russia is not required for obtaining an e-visa. To obtain an e-visa to Russia use our “E-visa to Russia” service.

An e-visa can be only single-entry. The permitted stay in Russia on an e-visa is up to 8 days from the date of entry within its validity period.

The validity period and/ or permitted stay on an e-visa cannot be extended. To obtain an e-visa a foreign citizen needs a digital passport photo and a completed application form containing full and valid data at the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Read more: Electronic visa to Russia for foreigners

In compliance with the Russian Government Regulation, Sudan is currently not listed among the foreign states eligible for an e-visa.

We recommend citizens of Sudan obtaining a common tourist visa for a stay up to 30 days.

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Russian consular section in Sudan

Sudanese citizens can apply for Russian visa in the following Consular sections:

Actual addresses of Russian embassies in Sudan

  • Embassy of Russia in the Republic of Sudan
    • Address:  P.O. Box 1161, Amarat, Street 5, Block 10, Khartoum, The Republic of the Sudan.
    • Phone number: (8-10-249-183) 47-10-42, 47-12-39.
    • Fax: (8-10-249-183) 47-10-42, 47-12-39.
    • E-mailrfsudan@hotmail.com
    • Webhttp://www.sudan.mid.ru

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Tourist Visa - e.g.: tourism, sightseeing;
  • Business Visa - e.g.: conferences, business negotiations;
  • E-Visa - e.g.: short-term visits;
  • Work Visa - e.g.: employment in a Russian company;
  • Private Visa - e.g.: visiting friends in Russia (though a tourist visa is cheaper and more effecient??).

To obtain a Russian visa you need:

  1. Fill in our online order form and get a Visa invitation to Russia
  2. Refer to our Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Russian Visa Application, use your personal data and information from the Invitation to Russia
Yes, they do. Sudanese citizens who plan to visit Russia, need to preliminary apply for Russian visa in Russian embassy or consulate.
You can quickly obtain such invitation by making a request to a travel agency. Only those travel agencies, which have its own reference number, have a right to issue tourist invitations.
Period can’t exceed 30 days.