I'm not sure either, I hope she can get it sorted out tomorrow and gets some answers from the OVIR guys as to why they want to know that stuff, no one explained or told her she needed such things before. Could be some officer abusing his power and doing his job wrong, she's going to try another OVIR agency tomorrow going to travel to another city.


Well, she told me she just needs to renew her external passport. She entered Russia with a papper they gave her at the Embassy in Portugal. So i'm assuming her Russian Passport was expired, it expires at 20 I believe and she's 21, and she entered the country with that papper and the Portuguese passport - I THINK.

She might have just entered the country with a visa or whatever that papper they gave her is.

And I hope it doesn't take 3 months like your wife's. Again, they told her it takes a maximum 1 month and a half to get it done. Makes sense since she's in russian territory anyway, should be much faster. And I believe she can legally speed the process up if it's urgent, for a fee ofc.

She's worried when will they decide to accept her application and start finally making her passport. We're both clueless and shocked as to why they require that information, why she wasn't warned, why she can't just do the easiest and simplest thing and actually send the pappers to the embassy they are demanding when she's on Portuguese ground because getting them from another country is just damn right mission impossible... Besides not wanting to stay on the country anymore and wanting to come home, Russia is a very expensive country. At this rate she's going to spend all her hard earned money on a waiting game and burocracies...

Some things cheer us up though. Renewing passports still takes long but not the endless months of before, people even get them done in 2 weeks on a general basis nowadays or so i'm told...