The Absurd Obstacles Russians Erect for Tourists Serve to Highlight Challenges to Tourism to the U.S. (Arthur Frommer Online)
On the Travel Show that my daughter and I present each weekend, we recently
interviewed a prominent blogger about the difficulty of obtaining a visa for
travel to Russia. She is Chris Gray Faust, who appears on Frommers.com as well
as her own blog (**www.chrisaroundtheworld.com**), and she provided us with
more horrifying facts about that task than anyone could possibly imagine. She
recently organized a trip to Russia, and “most” of her clients, she reports,
succeeded in obtaining a visa for the trip. Imagine: several would-be
travelers to Russia were unable to fulfill the complicated requirements in
time.
The Russians require, first, that you complete a lengthy questionnaire online,
in which you not only provide every conceivable genealogical fact (your
parents’ birthplaces, the birthplaces of your siblings and others), but also a
complete, lifelong work history including the names of your supervisors at
every company at which you’ve been employed. (You must also name all countries
you have visited over the past 10 years.) All in all, it takes from 45 minutes
to an hour to answer all questions, provided you’re able to dredge up the
material for doing so.
Thereafter, you must present the Russians with …
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