Visas

Visas

Getting all the visas in your passport is the most important thing before you leave. Without those visas, you will be turned away from the first border you come to outside Europe. For the first time Charity Rallies is offering a visa service for UK residents through a sponsoring visa agency Real Russia.  This is an exclusive service from a major visa agency with heavily discounted visa rates for our teams, up to date visa information and guidance for all teams regardless of their nationality and residence and discounted rates for train bookings.   Visa advice pages tailored to our teams will be hosted privately on the Real Russia website and accessible to signed up teams through a url link that we will provide.  It is a definite perk for teams that are signed up on either the Mongolia or Roof of the World Charity Rally 2012, espcially as Real Russia have recently become the only agency that can now process 3rd party Mongolian visas.

As you might know, we have traditionally had visa information on this website, which is now more than likely going to rapidly get out of date and should be of little use to our teams who have access to more up to date information.  Bearing that in mind, when our other visa page with Real Russia goes live we intend to archive the visa pages below.

Thanks, 

The Charity Rallies Team

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Most visas can be easily obtained by applying directly to the embassy in your country of residence. Want to know how? Look no further than the Charity Rallies visa guide to quench your thirst for visa knowledge. This online guide is built by ralliers for ralliers and is to visas what wikipedia is to the encyclopedia.

If all this sounds too much like a day in the office, there are plenty of very professional and efficient visa companies out there. They'll ease some of the pain and are crucial for some of the trickier countries, like Iran. The visa guide also contains recommendations from previous ralliers and comments on the commercial companies.

Turkmenistan Visas - The only exception to the no support rule is the Turkmenistan visa. We provide direct support for applying for a Turkmenistan transit visa. This is completed in one block application shortly before the main group leave on the rally. There is no charge for this service, however we can only do this for one group per year. Details will be sent to you after you sign up, or see the Turkmenistan Visa pages for more information.