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Services and visa

All consular services and visa support for residents of the countries listed below are provided by the Regional Consular Centre Moscow. Information can be found on the websites concerned:

Russia
Uzbekistan
Belarus

Services

Contact the responsible Swiss representation or consulate when you want to register or unregister as a resident, when you need a new passport, have moved or wish to apply for citizenship. The entire selection of services offered can be found in the dropdown menu to the right. The contact details of the responsible Swiss representation are shown on the corresponding page.

Swiss citizens who get into difficulties abroad, also can ask for advice and help from the Swiss representative.

The magazine for the Swiss Abroad appears six times a year and provides information about what is happening at home and the activities of Swiss associations abroad. It also answers administrative questions.

Online desk FDFA

Using the FDFA’s online consular services while abroad.

The relevant Swiss representation abroad can answer any questions concerning the FDFA’s online desk.

Seminar at the company Bartholet Maschinenbau AG in Flums on business opportunities for Swiss SMEs in the Russian market.

Currently, Russia's economy struggles with several difficulties because of low commodity prices, the international sanctions, and the weak ruble. But according to experts the economy should recover for 2017. The Russian market offers many opportunities with 150 million consumers for Swiss export companies; for example for suppliers for the food processing, railway, IT, pharmaceutical and MedTech industries. But a market entry or expansion of existing business in Russia must be well prepared because of several market entry barriers (e.g. Russia-specific certifications).

Bartholet Maschinenbau AG BMF with its headquarters in Flums, Switzerland, is an international leading Swiss company in the fields of aerial cableway systems, hi-tech aerial passenger transport systems, amusement park facilities, trackless road trains as well as mechanical engineering and metal processing. Since 2013 Bartholet has projects in Russia, one in a skiing resort in Kirovsk near Murmansk, another one is currently being constructed in Moscow. Bartholet will inform how they have succeeded in the Russian market and how they asses the current situation. Furthermore Ms. Julie Bächtold, Deputy Head Swiss Business Hub Russia, will inform on business opportunities in Russia and will give advice on how to enter the market.

The Seminar will be held in German.

More information and registration is available on the S-GE Website.