Citizens of the EU, US, CANADA, JAPAN, SWITZERLAND, NORWAY and ICELAND can only stay for 90 days WITHIN A 6 MONTH PERIOD!!!
It is recommended to fill and print this form in .PDF (you'll need Acrobat Reader on Ur PC first) before you arrive to Chisinau aiport or other frontier to apply for visa
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New regulations on the Transdniestr border
No visa is required
An invitation letter is required for a stay over 10 hours in Transdniestr. Please, write Lena if you need one.
No registration with the police is requred. It is performed right at the border on the basis of the invitation letter.
March, 2007
It is announced that general policy is to encourage travel of foreigners into the country, but in reality the entry formalities are minimal only for a group of countries and for others it involves an exptrimely unpleasant and expensive procedure of getting an invitation.
The lucky nations for whome visa is not required are : EU, US, CANADA, JAPAN, SWITZERLAND, NORWAY and ICELAND and a number of the countries of the former USSR (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan).
Visas are required for citizens of other countries. The Visas are issued exclusively by the Diplomatic and Consular Missions of the Republic of Moldova abroad. An Invitation Letter is needed to obtain a visa (with exception of Croatia, Israel, Turkey).
For more information regarding the Moldovan visa, please, visit the website of the Minister of the Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova.
I CAN HELP YOU IN GETTING OF ORDINARY VISA BY SENDING YOU THE INVITATION LETTER (FOR THE CITIZENS OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW-ZEALAND ONLY).
Normally it is done in 30 days, but may be urgent to 7 days in some cases. The application letter from a Moldovan person is examined by the bureaucrats from the Department of Migration of the Republic of Moldova. They reside in a very nice old building on Stefan cel Mare street (for information call +37322 544607). A copy of your passport and some details about your journey (like the dates of your sejour in Moldova, where will you be entering Moldova at, Moldovan embassy that will issue a visa for you) are requested.
The invitation should be presented at Moldovan embassy in original, so be ready to spent more time and money for its delivery.
Persons, transiting the Republic of Moldova without a residence visa, can not stay on its territory longer than 48 hours.
Transit
visas are issued for foreign citizens and nonresidents upon
presentation of an entry visa to a third country.
REGISTRATION OF FOREIGN TRAVELERS (please, don't confuse with visa) IS DONE DIRECTLY AT THE BORDER WHEN ENTERING THE COUNTRY (valid from April 2006) AND IS VALID FOR 90 DAYS.
This rule does not apply to travelers who are entering Moldova from the side of Transdneistr. They will have to get their registration at sections and territorial offices for record of population of the Ministry of Information Development.
The registration in Chisinau is done at the Central office of the Department of the Informational Technologies situated on 49, Cogalniceanu street. The procedure takes about one hour and costs about 4 USD. Your host has to be present with you, having on him his "buletin de identitate" and signing in the forms. Open Monday to Friday from 8 am till 5 pm and Saturday from 8 am till 2 pm. Sunday is the day-off.
It happens many time that you don't get an entrance stamp to Moldova while crossing the eastern border of Moldova. To avoid long-time and unpleasant explanations at the Police office in Moldova, please, keep the ticket of your arrival in Moldova.
You may PROLONG YOUR MOLDOVAN VISA in Chisinau. This may be done if you've got a simple visa for Moldova. You may prolong it up to 3 months at the Department of Migration of Moldova situated on Stefan cel Mare street, 124, office number 414. They work everyday, except Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 to 16:00 with a break from 12:00 to 14:00.
Another month of Moldovan visa will cost you 5-30 USD. If you want to get it the sameday it is 30 USD, in 3 days - 10 USD and in 5 days - 5 USD.
You should have your passport with expiring visa with you.
IMPORTANT: Tourist & transit visas may not be prolonged
This is how Moldovan visa looks like (a simple, one entry visa for a month)
Check out the contact details of the Moldovan embassy in your country at the site of the Ministry of Tourism of Moldova
This is how an invitation letter looks like
"We
paid a fine of 30 USD per person at the Transdniestr border "
June, 2005