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On the complaints of citizens of the Russian Federation to a new procedure for the registration of Cyprus visas. From October 6, it is necessary to take fingerprints and make a biometric scan of the face. It is impossible to submit a package of documents for a visa through tour operators. Near the consular department of the Cyprus embassy in Moscow, people stand in lines for the third day. Service is in Sig-Sig mode.
— I’m from Khabarovsk, my children are citizens of Cyprus, so I often go there, and I’ve bought tickets now. We have a huge country, very expensive air tickets, it’s not like flying from Limassol to Nicosia, in Cyprus they simply don’t understand this. The country itself is depriving itself of a huge number of tourists, said TourDom
woman from the queue.
According to tourists, many are waiting for October 5. The line is a few days in advance. On October 8, there were about 300 people, they accepted about 50. At the same time, the number in the queue has no decisive importance, because the consulate employees call those who have departure in the next two weeks.
-At nine in the morning, they announced that the first would be those who have a departure date until October 13, then specified that until the 12th. Without any lists. I have tickets just on October 12th. They accepted the documents, ordered the passport to come on October 9, ”one of the lucky ones said.
In addition to Moscow, Cyprus visas can be obtained at consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Krasnodar. There's less excitement there. It’s a paradox, but residents of the Far East are assigned to the Moscow consular district, that is, they will not be served in Yekaterinburg.
— Fingerprinting is not going quickly yet, they call support. It’s a matter of time to set up the process, of course,” wrote a tourist who successfully passed the test.
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