Whether you're travelling to Russia, China or Mongolia, everyone needs the correct visas. Global Village will handle visa processing for our UK based travellers, to ensure documents are handled in a proper way. For passengers who are outside the UK, that not usually a problem - we'll send you the docs and invites to do the visa yourself.
Visa Info for Russia
Handy to know:
(A) Russian visas are dated around the dates of your travel plans-the visa permits you to be in the country to complete your itinerary, but not for unscheduled extra activities. They give you a day's grace either side, but only for emergencies.
(B) Arriving /leaving by surface? Russia's so big its Western borders are more than a day's ride from the main cities… so we'll need to fix your entry dates accordingly. Please let us know if this applies to you!
(C) When we submit your visa, we need to show what travel services have been booked-any dates you list that aren't evidenced with travel docs to match will be knocked back. It'll also delay your application whilst they do it.
(D) Your passport must be valid for travel (i.e. not expired, or within six months after the end of all services) If you have two passports please consider which one you will travel on when applying for your visas and use the same one throughout.
Visa Info for Mongolia and China
Mongolian visas largely follow the same pattern as the Russian - we'll help you with the administration to ensure you get your visa in good time. Chinese visas are quite simple-but there are numerous old Travellers’ Tales about them! They are good for 30 days travel in China. You have 90 days to enter China from the day of issue, when the clock starts ticking. You don't have to show any kind of proofs of accommodation or tour-packages to get the Chinese visa-even though the application would lead you to believe differently. Because the Chinese Visa is so much simpler than the other two, we leave this one to you-or if you want us to do it anyway, we’ll charge you a processing fee of £30.00.
Visa Fees charged
(subject to change by the issuing authorities without notice. Prices shown include courier delivery of your finished documents to your address)
| Nationality |
Russian |
Mongolian |
Chinese |
| Great Britain |
£60 |
£40 |
£30 + £30 processing |
| Australia / Other |
£60 |
£40 |
£20 + £30 processing |
| New Zealand |
£60 |
£40 |
£20 + £30 processing |
Aren't visas a nightmare?
Needn’t be! We'll do the whole thing for you. Russian visas need proof of booking from a Russian registered outfit-we do all of this behind the scenes. Get your booking form into us at least six weeks prior to departure, and you’ll avoid express visa costs. If you do book less than six weeks prior to departure you still will be able to go, if the trip is available but you will need to pay express fees, please check with us how much these will be as they are dependent on what passport you hold and how much time we have. We’ll also need the original of your passport to get your visas and this must be the same as the passport number you gave us when you completed the original booking form.