What address to put on migration form?

Cal

Hello,
I have a 3 year, private visa (for family). My daughter sent me an invitation letter a long time ago.
When I enter Russia, what address should I enter on the migration form?
I'm coming to visit in July.

My question is this:
What address do I put down on the migration form, when I enter the country? I will be coming by bus.

Do I put the address that was on the invitation document (the apartment where my daughter is registered at)?
Or do I put the address of the hotel in Saint Petersburg where I will be staying for my visit?
We applied a year ago. It is just easier to stay at the hotel then at her small apartment.

I don't know what to do and I don't want to make a mistake that can get me or her in trouble.
Thanks.

antoniob

many years now that main border posts do print the migration card, the agent processing your passport fills in the terminal the data of the "inviting" field, then print the card, makes you sign it.
Few minor crossings do still provide bunch of blank cards that people fill themselves.

you just read the "invited by" field on your visa:

in case of european buss/road crossing, North to South they are by now: Kirkenes-Murmansk Tallin-SPb, Tallin-Pskov and Riga-Pskov (both cross in Estonia at Luhaama) and Gdansk-Kaliningrad.
ie. Borisoglebsk, Ivangorod, Shumilkino, Mamonovo. I used all of them in the last year, and I don't recall well but I think only Borisoglebsk had still blanks to fill oneself.

Cal

Thank you for explaining all of that, and showing me the pictures. But my visa doesn't have any of that. It doesn't say any address. On mine, it just says "guest" and the invited by section is left blank. I will be coming across Ivangorod and will have to walk across (unfortunately).

Cal

I can try to post a picture:

Cal

So I think what I see there is that you have a business type visa, invited by a business, for consulting. And there is a definitive address in Moscow.

My visa is a family visa. The question is -
Do I put the apartment where my daughter is registered at? (this was the address on the invitation)
Or do I put the address of the hotel in Saint Petersburg where we will both be staying for my visit?

I will ask the hotel and see if they know anything, and post back.

antoniob

Cal My visa is a family visa. The question is -
Do I put the apartment where my daughter is registered at? (this was the address on the invitation)

yes that one, because it is the one that FMS has recorded when she applied.

antoniob

Cal you have a business type visa, invited by a business, for consulting. And there is a definitive address in Moscow.

btw, the "business" visa is pro-forma only. Ie. the inviting part must be a business, and the invited foreigner is supposed in theory to travel for business related activities, which is very vague.
In fact it's not the case, the reason is that after USSR, administration didn't bother to rethink and redo the forms and regulations, and instead they recycled the existing framework, and tweaked it, so long-term multi-entries were issued by writing "business" visas.
It is only recently that 6-m multi-entries were established for Schengen people. For USA, Russia decided to do a nice gesture and made the 3-y multi tourism.
Schengen like me do keep using the "business" multi- 1 to 5 years. A particular case is the russian Balts,, ie.. former soviet citizens who became for instance Estonian citizens, and who often got issued a variant of the multi- 5 years, the "cultural" visa.
These days, by now, we in Schengen can expect in practice max the multi- 1y. on MID telex invitation.

antoniob

well I correct myself: the field you need may be left blank in fact on the migration card. I´d have to ask a friend who was in similar case.
But anyway, at Ivanorod you don´t fill the migration card yourself for sure, the border agent prints it.

Ivangorod pedestrian crossing by the bridge was not tailored to process big amounts of travellers, this was for the road posts, so if many busses arrive at same time, there may be some queue....

Cal

Thank you antoniob, that was very helpful. It is great that Ivangorod prints the form for me. That does look like a very long line. Which bus company did you go with?

antoniob

Cal Which bus company did you go with?

I took the 14:30 Luxexpress from Tallin coachstation. Just because it matched well my arrival plane from Oslo around 11:30 with good enough transfer time. I have used Ecolines also, no difference, they are all regular coaches.

Cal

I usually go with LUX, this next time I'm going to try Baltic Shuttle. I will be taking the 06:50 from Tallin coachstation.