To enter the territory of Italy, any citizen of the Russian Federation must first obtain a visa. To open a visa, the applicant must collect a certain list of documents and submit them for consideration to one of the Italian consulates, in accordance with their consular district (residents of St. Petersburg must submit a visa application to the Consulate General of Italy in St. Petersburg). But the consulate’s resources are limited and employees are no longer able to satisfy the requests of everyone. For this reason, visa centers were created, which act as intermediaries between the applicant and the consular office, taking on part of the work of checking the applicants’ documents for correctness and taking fingerprints. One of the Italian visa centers is located in St. Petersburg.
Operating mode
The Italian Visa Application Center is open to all clients from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. You can submit documents from half past eight in the morning until half past four in the evening, but you can pick up your completed passport throughout the working day.
- Reception of documents : Mon-Fri from 08:30 to 15:30
- Passport issuance : Mon-Fri from 08:30 to 17:30
There is no reception on weekends, as well as on public holidays in Russia and Italy. You can view the list of holidays on the official website of the Italian visa application → “Holiday Calendar”.
Opening hours of the Italian Consulate in St. Petersburg
The section of the Italian Consulate that issues visas to citizens wishing to travel to Italy is open from 9:00 to 18:00. Reception of documents begins at 9.30 and ends at 11.00. This period of time involves visiting clients to write applications, submit packages of necessary documents, receive ready-made passports, as well as oral counseling.
Working with clients:
- Monday-Friday: from 09:30 to 11:00
Saturday and Sunday are days off. In addition, on public holidays in Italy and Russia, this organization does not function. Information about weekends is posted in a certain section of the official website of the consulate.
Procedure for submitting documents
To submit an application for an entry document, the applicant must do the following:
- Decide on the type of visa.
- Collect all necessary documents.
- Go through a simple registration procedure for submitting documents.
- Arrive at the appointed time, fill out the necessary papers, submit them for review by the visa center staff, who send them to the consulate, where a decision is made on issuing a visa.
- Pay the service and consular fee.
- Wait for the completed passport to arrive and pick it up at the visa center or order courier delivery to the specified location.
How to submit documents to the Italian visa center in St. Petersburg
Before submitting documents, use the online registration system. This can be done on the website – https://italy-vms.ru/autoform/ or by calling the previously specified phone number.
To register on the site, fill out a form that includes the city (St. Petersburg), the type of visa you are requesting (you need to select the appropriate one from the list, for example, Turismo or Studio), and the correct email address. Also, do not forget to consent to the processing of personal data and note that the use of mobile devices is prohibited in the visa center. If the next available date is not suitable, you can also change it.
After this, indicate your travel dates and register on the portal. Please note that multiple applicants who require a visa can be listed at the same time. After this, come on the appointed date with a complete package of documents and a printed confirmation of your appointment.
For security reasons, it is prohibited to come with strangers, for example, friends or relatives, not including relatives accompanying citizens with disabilities or minor children.
You can sign up to submit documents absolutely free, and you can also change the appointment date.
Important! Apply for a visa no earlier than 90 days before the planned date of travel.
Applicants no longer need to wait in line and spend a long time at the visa application center, because they can book a convenient time for their visit.
Registration at the Italy visa center in St. Petersburg
After collecting documents, it’s time to make an appointment. To carry out this procedure, the applicant should go to the official website of the Italian visa center, select “Online registration” in the top menu, select “Registration for document submission” from the drop-down menu and the system will redirect you to the registration page.
Next, you will be offered a number of actions: New entry, Information about the entry, Cancel entry, Set another date. To register, select “New entry” and fill out the fields of the form that opens. In the line “Select a branch for submitting documents” we indicate St. Petersburg, and in the top line “Nearest available date” the nearest available date for visiting the visa center will appear.
A confirmation letter will be sent to the specified mailing address, which will inform you of the exact date and time when you need to arrive at the visa center. Before visiting the CC, you need to print this letter and take it with you.
Sign up at the Italian Consulate in St. Petersburg to submit documents
Before visiting the visa department of the Consulate General of Italy, you must complete the pre-registration procedure. This can be done either with a regular phone call or via the Internet. If you use the World Wide Web, the official website contains a special form for online registration. Here you will need to enter the information requested by the system and wait for a response letter with an invitation.
Registration by phone is carried out strictly within one hour - from 14.30 to 15.30 hours. Calls are accepted from Monday to Thursday inclusive. Telephone number where you can make an appointment5.
Cost of services
The cost of the consular fee for Russian citizens who plan to open a Schengen visa is 35 euros. In the case of a quick review of all documents, this price rises exactly twice, but the urgency must be documented. The consular fee can be paid at the ticket office of the Italian visa center in St. Petersburg on the day of submitting documents, but payment must be made in Russian rubles. The rate is set by the Italian Consulate and the current fee is 2,420 rubles, but the rate can be changed at any time without prior notice to applicants. You can find out more details by calling the call center.
The cost of the service fee (fee for the provision of services by the visa center) is 19.50 EUR, which in terms of Russian rubles at the internal exchange rate of the Italian visa center is 1350 RUB. The service fee is paid at the visa center cash desk on the day of submitting documents.
In case of refusal to issue a visa, consular and service fees are not refunded. This is a fee for processing documents, not for the final result.
Application procedure through the Italy Visa Application Center
The procedure for submitting a visa package at a specialized center in St. Petersburg is quite simple. You must arrive at the center by appointment at the appointed time. They let you in using your passport and the employee gives you an electronic queue number. As soon as the number appears on the display, you will need to go to the corresponding window.
After submitting the documents, you must go back to the hall and track your turn at the cash desk to pay the consular and visa fees and additional services. Payment can be made either by card or in cash.
To obtain a visa to Italy, you must also undergo biometrics, a mandatory procedure for submitting fingerprints and photographing the retina. This is the third stage, the procedure takes place in a separate booth behind a curtain. All 3 stages of submitting documents take approximately half an hour, provided you have all the necessary papers.
You can track the status of your application and the readiness of your passport on the visa center portal. You can also check the status by calling the hotline. If you have used the SMS notification service, information about the status will be sent to the specified number in the form of SMS.
Additional services
The Italy Visa Center in St. Petersburg offers its clients the use of additional services that can greatly facilitate the application process.
- The operating hours of the Italian VC in St. Petersburg are not convenient for everyone; for those who find it more convenient to submit documents after five o’clock in the evening, they can take advantage of this, which provides for an extended period for accepting visa documents. So you can apply for a visa from Monday to Friday from 16:30 to 20:00. The cost of this service is 2100 rubles per applicant. Pre-registration is required.
- For an additional fee, you can obtain a medical insurance policy, which must be attached to your visa documents. The cost of the policy depends on the days of stay in the Schengen zone, as well as on the amount of coverage and the degree of activity of the intended vacation.
- Copying and printing of documents is also possible for an additional fee. fee. A printout or copy of one page will cost 25 rubles. Please note that in order to print documents, you must send them by email in advance. Printing documents from third-party media is not possible!
- For 250 rubles, visa center staff will fill out a visa application and print it out.
- A set of photographs for a visa will cost 250 rubles.
- SMS notification of passport arrival will cost 50 rubles per message.
- Also, everyone can use the services of a courier to deliver the finished passport to its destination. The cost of the service depends on the tariffs of the courier service.
Visas to Italy
Dear friends!
In connection with the introduction of a mandatory procedure for submitting fingerprints by the Schengen countries, we inform you that neither the deadlines for processing applications nor the amount of the consular fee have been changed.
The visa process also remains the same. The exception is that the applicant will be required to appear at the consulate or visa center at the appointed time to undergo fingerprinting using special equipment. It's simple and only takes a few minutes. The procedure for submitting biometric data is aimed at making your travels around Europe as safe and comfortable as possible. You can read more about the introduction of biometrics here
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Visas are issued ONLY when purchasing a tour or booking a hotel!
The consular district of the Consulate General of Italy in St. Petersburg includes the North-Western region of the Russian Federation. This region consists of: the city of St. Petersburg, the Republic of Karelia and the following regions: Arkhangelsk, Leningrad, Murmansk, Novgorod, Pskov and Vologda
. Applicants residing in the above areas must submit applications in St. Petersburg.
In addition, at the moment, the Consulate General of Italy in St. Petersburg can also accept applicants with registration in other regions of the Russian Federation at the discretion of the consulate if there is a link to St. Petersburg (certificate of work and temporary registration of the applicant).
Consular fee (visa) for adults
is
75 euros
, the visa is issued in St. Petersburg.
Visa for children from 0 to 5 years (inclusive)
—
40 euros
*.
Disabled people only pay a service fee: 40 euros
(You must provide the original certificate of disability).
Visa processing time after submitting documents to the consulate: 5 working days (The Consulate has the right to delay documents for up to one month).
Visa support , if you apply for visas yourself - 10 euros per application.
The cost of the tour automatically includes the cost of medical insurance for tourists under 65 years of age. If desired, you can purchase one of the following insurance options:
- six months/year for 30 days of stay in the Schengen zone 14 euros;
- six months/year for 45 days of stay in the Schengen zone 20 euros;
- six months/year for 60 days of stay in the Schengen zone 32 euros;
- six months/year for 90 days of stay in the Schengen zone 50 euros.
Please send all questions related to obtaining visas to Italy to [email protected]
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The final decision on issuing a visa is made by the Consular Section of the Italian Embassy, therefore the Company is not responsible for the decisions and actions of the Consulate and does not guarantee the receipt of visas to applicants. If the Consulate fails to issue a visa on time or the applicant receives a visa refusal, the consular fee is not refunded.
Information about the Consulate General of Italy in St. Petersburg can be found here
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List of documents
Applications
ATTENTION!
Below is a file of sample signatures in the application form.
You DO NOT need to print it. It is necessary to print the file “Consulate Application Form” with double-sided printing (three blank pages and the 4th with text) and put the applicant’s signature on the printed sheets as in the sample. Consulate Application Form
Signatures in the Consulate application form
Cost of services: consular and service fee
The consular fee for opening a Schengen visa for Russians will be 35 euros. Sometimes it happens that a document is required as soon as possible. Then obtaining a passport will cost twice as much, but you will need documents confirming the validity of their urgent issuance. Payment must be made to the visa center cash desk in Russian rubles on the same day the documents are submitted.
In addition to the consular fee, the CC also issues a service fee. This is payment for employees doing their job. Its size is 19.50 EUR, or 1350 RUB, if converted into our currency. It is also paid along with the consular fee - on the day of submission of documents. By the way, if the issuance of documents is refused, the amount of both fees is non-refundable, because they are payments made for the processing of received documents.
