Great news for all the football lovers in Pakistan! Russia has introduced a new scheme that will allow football fans to enter the country for the 2018 World Cup without a visa.
Moreover, Russian administration has announced that tourists will also be able to make use of free transport between the 11 host cities, if you have the tickets for the games.
Russia’s deputy prime minister and the chairman of the local organizing committee for the World Cup Vitaly Mutko said that, “Russia has an obligation towards FIFA and we’re ready to start.”
He added:
Everything is working and we’re ready to start. We have taken every possible measure to guarantee security and safety of those travelling to Russia.
Fan IDs will be issued to the fans who possess the tickets by the Russian government and they will only be allowed to enter Russia without a visa for the period surrounding the World Cup.
We have a visa-free regime for those who have tickets for the Confederations Cup and the World Cup.
Football fans who come from other countries will also have free travel from city to city as well. This is a football feast.
Alexey Sorokin, the CEO of the local organizing committee added that they have 262 trains offering free transport for fans and the whole programme is already in operation.
It is worth mentioning that Russia also used a similar system for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi where fans entered their personal information in an online database.
Via ESPN
How to apply for free visa and from where?
All you need is to do is buy tickets for the game, the registration team will hand you the Fan ID which can be then printed out and used instead of a visa.
That’s how it’s supposed to work, we’ll update once they announce the official method.
I think not possible for Russia,
They only allow transit/entry visa
Transit visa is used if you want to go Russia for only few hours and then take flight to another country, its mean you are not staying there
Old news from July 2016.
Check the link of ESPN.
Chalo Chalo Russia Chaloo
Khawab mein…
Thats new world order… USA closing its borders and building walls. Russia is opening its boundaries to the world….
but not for Pakistan
No one is opening border for Pakistan except Turkey. Its due to Pakistan’s face as militant supporter in the eyes of world.
Russia has shown interest in trading through CPEC
I think Russian only allow transit/entry visa to Pakistanis due to terrorism in Pakistan,
Transit visa is used to stay for few hours there while travelling to other country,
its mean if we have no direct root or flight to a third country for example we want to travel to Israel and went Russia from Pakistan and want to wait for few hours there for a flight and then went to Israel
Aur tickets kahan se milein ge?
How to apply visa.and how tak the visa please guide me
I need visa .pleas guaid me .and online gave me visa