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Address of the Spain Visa Application Center in Moscow

• Kaluzhskaya Square, 1, building 2. Shopping center "Europe", 1st floor.

How to get to the Spain Visa Application Center in Moscow

• Art. "October" (Koltsevaya line, exit No. 1), then about 5 minutes 420 meters on foot.
• Art. "October" (Kaluga-Rizhskaya line), then about 6 minutes 500 meters on foot.

Contacts

Spain Visa Application Center opening hours - reception hours

• submission: from Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 16:00;
• collection: Monday to Friday from 12:00 to 16:00;
• submission of documents strictly by appointment online or by phone;
• inside the Visa Application Center it is forbidden to talk on a mobile phone. When you sign in, put your device into silent mode. Learn more about security requirements.

It is important to know

If you do not receive a verification code for online registration in the mail, try either replacing the mail address with another one, or sign up for the submission of documents.

The Consulate of Spain is loyal to the citizens of the Russian Federation. In 95% of cases, you will be approved for a 6-month multiple-entry visa even on the first application (this does not apply to urgent visa requests). Thus, the Spanish government is trying to increase the attractiveness of the country for tourists. Most applicants are not aware of such a “generosity” of the Spanish consulate, which can be used by mercenary agencies, promising each of their clients a multiple-entry visa, and even for six months at once. Even if you still decide to apply to the agency, be aware that the approved multiple entry visa is absolutely not their merit.

Of course, there are exceptions when the Spaniards issue visas for a shorter period, or instead of a Schengen visa they issue a national Spanish visa (not a Schengen visa), according to which, except for Spain, you cannot get anywhere. However, most often this happens to applicants who have previously been noted for incorrect use of visas, “bad behavior” or violation of the law or visa regime in the territory, having a corresponding note about themselves in the database. Such cases are indeed few, however, they cannot be completely ruled out. Carefully read the visa issuance.

Cost of a visa to Spain - how much does a visa to Spain cost

Valid as of May 22, 2019

Consular fee:

FOR TOURIST VISA:

• 2 654 rub. (35 euros)— for citizens of Russia, Armenia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
• 4 550 rub. (60 euros)- for citizens of other countries.

Attention! Submission is possible only at the standard rate of consideration of documents. Express consideration of a visa request for a tourist visa is not provided. The logic is simple: You should prepare for the trip in advance.

FOR BUSINESS VISA:

• 2 654 rub. (35 euros)– when submitting documents at the standard rate for consideration of documents (for citizens of Russia, Armenia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Georgia);
• RUB 5,309 (70 euros)– when submitting documents at an urgent rate for consideration of documents less than 5 days (for citizens of Russia, Armenia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Georgia);
• RUB 5,309 (70 euros)— when submitting documents under the super-urgent rate for consideration of documents in less than 24 hours (for citizens of Russia, Armenia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Georgia).
• 4 550 rub. (60 euros)- for citizens of other countries.

Spain Visa Application Center Service Fee:

• RUB 1,172– the urgency of consideration of documents does not affect the amount of the fee.

Special conditions:

• Payment of fees is made in cash in rubles directly at the ticket office of the Visa Application Centre. Payment is made on the Russian passport.
• The visa fee paid, as well as the additional processing fee, are non-refundable, regardless of the outcome of the review.

Who is exempt from paying visa fees?

The consular fee and the fee of the visa center are not charged from the following categories of applicants (for them, a visa is issued for free):

• from children under 6 years old;
• from disabled persons of any group and from one accompanying person.

The consular fee is not charged for the following categories of applicants (they are charged only the service fee of the Visa Center):

• from close relatives (spouses, children, parents, grandparents, grandchildren) of citizens of the European Union;
• from members of official delegations;
• from members of national or regional governments, parliaments, constitutional and higher courts (unless they are exempted from the visa requirement);
• from schoolchildren, full-time students and graduate students going to study or study internship, as well as from teachers accompanying them;
• from applicants who documented the humanitarian nature of the trip, including the need for urgent medical treatment, as well as one person accompanying such an applicant, either to attend the funeral of a close relative or visit a seriously ill close relative;
• from participants of international sports youth events and their accompanying persons;
• from persons participating in scientific, cultural and creative activities, including university and other exchange programs;
• from participants in official exchange programs organized between sister cities.

Total:

The cost of a visa to Spain - 3 826 rubles. when applying at the standard rate for a tourist or business visa, 6 481 rubles. for urgent and super-urgent business visas. We do not take into account the cost of registration of insurance and photographs. The cost of insurance depends on the duration of the intended trip.

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When is it possible to apply for a visa to Spain?

Documents for obtaining a visa are accepted no earlier than 3 months before the intended trip.

Terms of consideration of the application at the Visa Application Center of Spain in Moscow

• The standard processing time for documents at the Spanish Visa Application Center is 4-6 workers days. As a rule, a passport can be obtained already on the 5th working day after the submission of documents.
• The processing time for a business visa application when applying for an urgent tariff is 3 workers day, including the day of submission. Documents for a visa are accepted strictly 3 working days before departure. This review option may not be available due to the high workload of the embassy.

For example, you have a flight on Saturday/Sunday/Monday. We are counting back 3 working days - the documents will be accepted on Wednesday (and only!). Departure on Tuesday - documents will be accepted on Thursday (and only!).

• When applying for a business visa at a super-urgent rate, a decision on your case will be made on the same day. This option is available only after approval by the Consul. You should get to the Visa Application Center as early as possible - in this case, there is still a chance that your visa will be approved within 24 hours.
• The term for consideration of a visa request directly depends on the seasonality at the Consulate.

In regional visa centers, the processing time may be longer due to the need to send documents to the Consulate and back.

The procedure for receiving and issuing documents

Biometrics:

Since September 14, 2015, the issuance of Schengen visas includes the mandatory collection of biometric data. When applying for a visa at a consulate or visa center, the applicant must undergo a 10-fingerprint scan and take a digital photograph. As promised, the whole procedure takes no more than a few minutes. Submission of biometric data is required once every 5 years. Children under the age of 12 are exempt from biometrics.

Submission of documents to the Visa Application Center of Spain is carried out strictly by appointment on the website of the Visa Application Center. It is possible to create a single entry for all applicants.

Submission of documents:

• in person (personal presence is not required for children under 12 years old);
• provided that you have already submitted biometrics: through a travel agency accredited by the Consulate General of Spain in Moscow;
• provided that you have already taken biometrics: the next of kin on the basis of a document confirming kinship (marriage certificate or birth certificate).

Documents receiving:

• personally;
• next of kin on the basis of documents confirming kinship (marriage certificate or birth certificate);
• travel agency in the event that the filing was carried out by the agency;
• paid delivery (issued at the Visa Application Center when submitting documents; the cost depends on the delivery address).

Additional services of the Spain Visa Application Center

• Filling out the questionnaire;
• A set of photographs of the applicant (photo booth);
• VIP hall;
• Copying documents;
• SMS notification of the status of the case;
• Mobile biometrics;
• Registration of insurance;
• Delivery of documents.

You can find the cost, the current list and a detailed description of additional services on the official website in the "Additional Services" section.

A visa is required to travel independently in Spain. You can get it at the Spanish consulate or at the Spanish visa center. Today I will talk about the Spanish Visa Application Center in Moscow, which cities in Russia have Spanish visa centers, the terms for issuing a visa to Spain, the rules and what we saw in the Moscow Visa Application Center for Spain.

Attention! From December 17, 2016, the address of the Spanish Visa Application Center in Moscow and the receipt of visas in the regions have changed.

What changed:

• Visa Center address. The new address of the Spain Visa Application Center in our article has been updated and is correct.
• Management Company. Instead of VFS Global, BLS International Services Ltd is now operating. This is important because ECs in the regions are not yet open. VCs operate only in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

UPD: On February 1, 2017, BLS International Services opened Visa Application Centers in Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Kazan. You can find the address and opening hours on the "Contact Information" page on the official website of the Exhibition Center (link below).

On March 3, 2017 BLS International Services opened Visa Application Centers in Samara, Saratov, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Ufa, Krasnoyarsk, Perm Krasnodar.

On March 16, 2017, BLS International Services opened 5 centers for receiving documents and biometric data: in Khabarovsk, Irkutsk, Smolensk, Novorossiysk and Vladivostok.

March 30, 2017 BLS International Services opened document acceptance centers in Omsk and Arkhangelsk.

The opening hours of the centers in these cities are indicated on the official website of the EC.

• The company is new, the employees of the VC are new, and in December there were a huge number of complaints about their work. By January 2017, the Spanish Visa Application Center in Moscow had dealt with most of the problems. Individual shortcomings are always found.
• Please note that at the moment the service to take a photo for a visa on the spot is possible only in the Moscow Exhibition Center. Do it ahead of time.
• Courier delivery is not yet available. VC writes that it will be available after January 20, 2017.

All information in the article on obtaining a Spanish visa is up to date.

Visa to countries

A visa is a document that allows you to enter a country.

Countries are visa-free, visa-free and conditionally visa-free. a list of countries by which you can check which type of visa regime, which country belongs to.

Do I need a visa for Spain?

Yes. Spain is a country that is part of the Schengen area. You need a visa to travel to Spain.

Is it difficult to get a visa to Spain?

About 8 years ago, it was difficult to open a visa to Spain. Spain was known as the most capricious Schengen country. Many failures, strict selection.

Now the conditions for obtaining a visa have become easier. Moreover, on tourist forums and in communities, we now and then meet joyful messages from independent tourists that they have been issued an annual visa. You can read about how to get a Schengen multivisa.

What is joy? The fact that they applied for a regular short-term visa for a trip to Spain, and in the Spanish visa center they thought something, looked at the tourist's travel history and decided to issue a visa to Spain for a year.

These are the pleasant surprises you can get from the Spanish visa center.

How to apply for a tourist visa to Spain

Applying for a visa to Spain on your own is no more difficult than applying through a travel agency. But much cheaper. We have talked about this more than once, and we will talk more.

To obtain a visa to Spain, you need to collect a package of documents and submit them to the Spanish Visa Application Center or the Spanish Consulate.

What is the difference?

At the consulate:

1. Submission of documents for a visa by appointment. Those. you need to call the consulate or go to their website and find out what date you can make an appointment
2. You pay only for the visa (the visa fee for Russian citizens is 35 euros.).
3. Issue a visa only for the requested dates

At the visa center:

1. Information updated for June 2017- You can apply for a visa only by appointment.
2. A visa fee is also taken, the visa category is tourist. Information from the official website: the visa fee is 2260 rubles, and the service fee is 998 rubles. Only cash is accepted. The cost of a visa may vary depending on the euro exchange rate.
3. Can issue a visa for a year

Surely, there is a difference in the degree of complexity of your question or in details, but you need to find out about this only at the consulate or visa center itself.

Information about all visa centers in Russian cities is on the official website Spain Visa Application Center.

You need to learn about what documents are needed and what are the requirements for them from the materials published only on the official site.

There you can also find out information on the visa centers themselves - in which cities new ones have opened, in which they have closed, when the visa centers have holidays, and when they work normally.

The list of documents to be submitted to the visa center is the same as in many other EU countries:

• profile,
• passport (and a copy of all pages)
• A copy of all pages of other passports: valid and canceled.
• A copy of the completed pages of a civil passport
• certificate from the place of work,
• hotel reservations
• confirmation of your financial solvency,
• bank statement (financial status: 64.53 € per person per day of stay (minimum 580.77 € per trip per person)
• insurance,
• photos (make it in advance, there is no such service in the new visa center yet).

Therefore, people deceive themselves when they pay money for obtaining a visa to intermediaries who supposedly have special opportunities and loopholes in the visa center.

The visa center has a special room for submitting group documents. We saw specialists there. In the same way, they are waiting for their turn, preparing their folders, submitting documents to the window.

Friends, the visa center is a very convenient place where everything is thought out and done for the convenience of the person submitting the documents.

But there are also cases when it will be easier to issue documents through a travel agency.

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In which cities of Russia there are visa centers in Spain

If you do not live in Moscow or St. Petersburg, then where to apply for a visa?

Service and visa centers of Spain are distributed throughout Russia in the districts.

1. Consular district of the Consulate General of Spain in Moscow

This includes the federal districts: Central, Southern, Far Eastern, Siberian, Ural, Volga, North Caucasian and Crimean.

These are: Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Ufa, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Omsk, Saratov, Perm.

2. Consular district of the Consulate General of Spain in St. Petersburg

This includes the Northwestern Federal District.

Cities of this district, where there are visa centers in Spain: St. Petersburg, Leningrad region, Novgorod, Novgorod region, Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad region, Murmansk, Murmansk region, Pskov, Pskov region, Karelian Republic.

At the moment (June 2017), to submit documents, you need to go to the EC of St. Petersburg. It is not yet clear when the offices will open. You need to read the news on the official website of the EC or call by phone.

Visa Application Centers of Spain in Moscow

Many travel websites have information that there are two Spanish visa centers in Moscow and now, since December 2016, a new address has appeared.

So, in Moscow, since December 2016, the visa center has been located at only one address: st. Letnikovskaya 11/10b building 1, m. Paveletskaya.

From the metro along Kozhevnicheskaya street, turn onto Letnikovskaya street, go on the left side, pass the large Wikimart building. Then go through the barrier and go into the brown brick building, this is the checkpoint, go inside there and go through it to the street to the visa center,

For more information about visas to Spain, please call +7 499 504 28 07 , +7 495 134 45 68 , +7 499 350 83 10.

The Moscow Visa Application Center of Spain does not yet have a service for the delivery of documents. They promise to fix it from January 20th. But still, for clarification, call the VC.

Moscow Visa Application Center of Spain

Address: st. Letnikovskaya 11/10b building 1, m. Paveletskaya.

After you left the entrance, you immediately stumble into the building. Go around it on the left, there will be a door around the corner - this is the entrance to the visa center.

You go up to the 2nd floor. A frame with security will grow in front of you, where you will be asked to present documents (passport). Since the submission of documents takes place only by appointment, the guard will find you on the list. Then the inspection of things and the issuance of tickets with the number of your queue.

The visa application center has just moved into this building, so some halls are still closed and are being renovated. But there are toilets.

In the future, the entire territory should be divided into three parts:

• for those who apply for a visa
• for those who receive a visa
• for those who need help

Today there is a hall of about 80 sq.m. Approximately 20 chairs and 12 filing windows, 3 fingerprint booths, cash desk.

As a result: from the moment of entry to the moment of exit after submitting documents for a visa, it may take you 20-30 minutes.

Where to stay in Moscow

As a rule, for those who travel from the regions to submit documents to the Moscow Visa Application Center of Spain, one day is not enough and they need to spend the night somewhere.

Many housing options in Moscow can be found on the service Airbnb. Through it you can rent inexpensive apartments. We have written how to use this service. If you do not find a free room in the hotel, then look for accommodation through this booking site.

We offer hotel options in Moscow near the visa center

Spain visa insurance

Where there are visa centers, there are always mobile insurance companies. You can insure on the spot before submitting the documents.

You can get insurance on the first floor

How much is a Spanish visa

The official statement that the period for issuing a visa is 5-10 working days.

Checked on personal experience. Our visas were ready in 3 days.

The status of your application can be tracked on the website, by phone or using the "SMS message" service.

Bottom line: the Spanish Visa Application Center continues to operate, but with a new management company and at a new address. Minus - there are offices only in Moscow and St. Petersburg. To apply for a visa from the regions, you have to go to these cities.

The BLS officer must provide a receipt for all services used and paid for at the BLS Visa Application Centre. In case of any discrepancy, you can write to us: [email protected].

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The BLS Spain Visa Application Center does not provide any other services other than the acceptance and processing of Spanish visa applications as authorized by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Service “Flexi hours”, on Saturday- issuance of passports from 10:00 - 14:00 - 800 rubles per passport.

Flexi hours service, Monday to Friday- issuance of passports from 08:00 - 12:00 & 16:00 - 20:00 - 600 rubles per passport.

Issuance of passports during peak hours, from Monday to Friday, from 12:00 - 16:00, in the VIP-hall - 1000 rubles for a passport.

Dear applicants!
Be sure to print out your entry for the submission of documents to the Visa Application Centre. The use of mobile phones in the Visa Application Center is strictly prohibited!

ATTENTION!