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Cruise: Foreign Office troubles passport tour warning to Britons on cruises to Russia

by Curtis E. Kirschbaum
July 1, 2019
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CRUISE vacations which prevent in Russia now include a tour caution from the UK Foreign Office as diplomatic relations go to the pot between London and Moscow. It’s essential passengers keep onto their passports as dropping the document should imply an expensive – and stressful – race against time.

Cruise vacations to Russia now imply hard policies for British passengers, the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has warned. Britons have been counseled of the dangers of losing their passport or having it stolen in Russia. Normally, holidays to Russia require a Russian visa however cruise passengers can keep away from this by way of arriving by means of ship. Cruise passengers can forestall off in Russia and probe for as much as seventy-two hours without having the greater report in the event that they have booked tours through officially licensed companies.

This rule applies to some of the destinations in Russia, consisting of the highly famous metropolis of St Petersburg – a not unusual forestall on a Baltic cruise.
Other places with this pink tape-loose association are Vyborg, Kaliningrad, Sochi, Novorossiysk and the cities of Korsakov and Vladivostok within the Far East of Siberia.
It’s key cruise passengers keep their UK passport on them at all times, however as random tests may be performed with the aid of officers.
However, should the crucial travel file be lost or stolen all through a cruise passenger’s seventy-two-hour stays, existence might be made very difficult for the holidaymaker.
The FCO explains: “If your passport is lost/stolen at the same time as ashore, you need to attain a police record, tour to the British Embassy in Moscow for a substitute Emergency Travel Document, get a go out visa and pay a first-rate to leave Russia.
“If it isn’t always achieved in the seventy-two-hour visa-unfastened regimes, you may be facing a court docket listening to, pleasant, deportation and a probable ban from re-access.”

The Moscow embassy is presently the most effective British Embassy in the complete of Russia.
The British Consulate-General in St Petersburg was close in 2018 via order of the Kremlin, following the poisoning of Sergei Skripal.
This way a race towards time to get to Moscow to gain the replacement Emergency Travel Document and get a go out the visa.
While that is possible from, say, St Petersburg, it’s far it a far more onerous endeavor if one is some distance from the Russian capital.
For example, from Vladivostok, the trip to Moscow involves an eight,000-mile spherical journey.

The metropolis – on the cease of the Trans-Siberian Railway – has ended up a popular port of name for Pacific cruises.
Princess Cruises, Holland-America Line and Royal Caribbean are all due to carry British passengers to Vladivostok this summer.
The FCO offers similar advice for UK passports in Russia, pointing out: “Your passport needs to be valid for a minimum duration of 6 months after the expiry date of your visa.
“It’s not possible to go into Russia the usage of a visa in an expired passport, even though carried with a brand new, valid passport. You will need to either apply for a visa transfer or for a brand new visa. Further info is to be had from the Russian Embassy.
“If you’re journeying on a British passport issued considering the fact that January 2017, you have to make certain you’ve signed your passport before your tour. Some British nationals who haven’t signed their new passports were denied access into Russia.”
As for those heading to Russia by plane or land: “You’ll need to get a visa from the Russian Embassy earlier than you travel.
“Processing instances are up to 20 enterprise days for widespread carrier or up to three commercial enterprise days for pressing carrier depending upon the visa class applied for and the software itself.”

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