Belarus Travel Forum

My wife and I have been supporting a Belarussian family for over 12 years now and she has stayed with us in England 6 times now but always arranged through one of the Chernobyl Charities.

As she is now 22 years old, she will be staying with my family and I for 10 days over the Christmas period.

After a lot of hassle we have booked a return flight and are now putting together the paperwork required for her to get a tourist visa for a private visit to Britain.

Part of this requires copies of my family bank statements, payslips, mortgage agreement, copies of letters received from her, copies of phone bills proving we talk on the phone etc...very complicated.

The final piece of paperwork required is an invitation from me. Obviously this could be written many different ways and we have no reason to put anything other than the truth.

However, I would be grateful if anyone could advise the sort of layout the visa dept in Belarus expect and the sort of info it needs to contain.

I have been looking for examples of layouts on the web without any joy so any advice or guidance with the type of layout and contents would be very much appreciated.


Kind regards


Mark & Susanne

sounds like you need professional advice from a lawyer.

No need for a lawyer - I did a 1 year Schengen visa to an entire Serbian family and it took me ca. 6 hours to finish - with a governmental approve in my hand. It's a much more difficult visa than single visit to UK.

The procedure does vary from EU country to EU country, costs too - but it is not difficult.

Why don't you call the UK consulate in Belarus and ask them, what has to be done? Because it's THEM who ultimately issue the visa, not Belarus authorities. Your guest will have her passport independently of all this, it's not your worry. She will need a UK visa in her passport - and that's why you should call the UK consulate in Belarus. A lawyer in UK will charge you without perhaps knowing, what is, what UK consulate does need.

http://ukinbelarus.fco.gov.uk/en/visas/
there you shouls get the correct info what to do or to write

good luck:-)

Hi you are welcome to email me westlake47@hotmail.co.uk and I can help you. I am part of an organisation who help the children in Belarus I have raised invites too. It is not too complicated Sarah