By early August, several visa centers in Russia resumed their work. However, visa services are available only for limited categories of persons.
Bulgaria Austria, Germany, Spain, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia:
Visa centers remain closed until further notice.
Greece
Greece visa application centers in St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg will resume work for submission of documents from August 6, 2020. Greece visa application centers in Moscow and Novorossiysk are currently opened for submission of documents.
Italy
Italy visa application center in Moscow resumed accepting documents from July 30 exclusively for issuing the following types of visas: work, transport, service, transit, student, medical and business.
Since July 27, 2020, Italian visa application centers have been opened for issuing ready-made passports in the following cities: Belgorod, Vladivostok, Voronezh, Volgograd, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, from July 28 – in Tomsk and Irkutsk.
Offices in Ulyanovsk, Stavropol, Yekaterinburg, Mineralnye Vody and Krasnoyarsk remain temporarily closed.
Finland
Due to the COVID-19 situation, Finland has temporarily suspended work of its visa centers around the world.
France
Since July 20, French visa centers in Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Saratov and Khabarovsk have resumed their work.
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic visa application center in Moscow is opened from August 3, 2020. Currently, only applications of the following categories are accepted: family members of EU citizens, from persons for entry in the interests of the Czech Republic, citizens engaged in international transportation, for humanitarian purposes, from registered partners of citizens of the Czech Republic, seasonal workers.
The work of the regional visa centers of the Czech Republic is still suspended.
