i live in Los Angeles and hold a foreign Passport. I need to tour Kiev and odessa this october.
anybody knows how I can get an invitation letter. I do not mind paying.
Google for 'Kiev apartment' and from the apartment websites see which ones will provide an invitation letter for not too many dollars once you have booked an apartment.
As of 2004, Ukraine doesn't require Americans to obtain a Visa to enter...only a passport.
You do not need an invitation to enter Ukraine. You can stay up to 3 months on a single entry visit.
Australia and NZ are about the only western countrise that still need visa for Ukraine.
Companies like gotorussia can email you an invition in about a day.
thanks guys.
i hold a TAnzania passport.
I spoke with visahq.com and they told me i need a ukraine "Hotel voucher" issued by a hotel in Ukraine
Ukraine consulate says I need a original letter of invitation.
A little confusing.
Adman, I will check with gotorussia you recommended even though I am told i need a "original" not emailed or faxed.
The first time I went to the Ukraine I used Adam and Eva for accomodationhttp://www.adam-and-eva.com/contact.shtml. This is the only time I will plug a marriage agency although I think most of her business now is apartment rental and that is all I used them for. They did the apartments in both Kiev and Odessa - they are Odessa based. They supplied me with both travel voucher and invitation thru a third party. I believe they do it for a fee. I just printed out the emailed scanned copies. Have never been asked for originals for visa. I have applied for visas in Australia, Egypt, Canada, Hungry and Guinea and have never been nocked back with printed copies.
I have done many since and have never required the travel voucher. However I am Australian and you are Tanzanian and they may require documentation that you have paid for your accommodation whilst there. In Australia I always use a travel agent for the airline bookings and they usually use a visa agent to get the visas once I have secured the necessary documentation. It seems that these get processed more smoothly if you cant do it in person.
Remember they dont do same day processing, rush is 3 days and normal is 10 working days.
Sherbourne apartments in Kiev will give you a letter of invitation. Not that big a deal. You will need a receipt from a hotel as to where you are boarding, maybe that's the voucher you are implying.
I need to go to Ukraine this summer 1st of June 2012. and i have tried asking travel agents in Moscow to provide me with an invitation letter but to no avail. Some said that they don't provide invitation letters to Malaysian passport holders, some said that I need to book a five star hotel then only they will consider. I am a Malaysian and currently studying in Moscow. Please enlighten me.
I might be mistaken but Moscow, being in Russia, is not in Ukraine thus how the hell can a Russian travel agent issue you with an invitation letter to enter another country?
You need a letter of invitation from a Ukrainian sponsor/business to travel to Ukraine.
I was thinking to go there like a tourist, thats why I approached travel agents in Moscow. Hmm..do you think its possible if I go to get the invitation letter from the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow itself?
Why don't you ask e.g. an agent in Zimbabwe to provide you with an invitation letter to Ukraine?) I just don't get it how people having the Internet can't understand that Ukraine isn't a part of Russia anymore.
nasfan6 (above) stated that Sherbourne Apartments (Kiev) will issue invites, many a reputable hotel will do likewise, I believe there arte travel agents in Ukraine that are authorised to issue such invites but, the easiest way is to, book yourself some accommodation ensuring that they can/will sjubsequently provide you with an invite.
By all means talk to the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow.