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President Elbegdorj's Visit to US Started from San Francisco

A State Honored Sportsman and Olympic champion boxer, E.Badar-Uugan, was also present.

Mr. Elbegdorj and his delegates visited the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian Art. The museum houses a collection of over 17,000 artworks spanning 6,000 years of ancient Asian history. Some of the most interesting exhibits, a bowl made from a human skull and a painting of capital city Khuree, are from Mongolia.

On the evening of 14th June, The President was in the Bay area to underline strong ties with the U.S. and to commemorate the recent opening of a formal Mongolian consulate there. President Elbegdorj also toured Silicon Valley to meet with leading businesses about cross-collaboration on energy and environmental technology. He called the Bay Area “the gateway to Asia”.

Mr. President and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, Kh.Bekhbat, held a meeting with Mongolians who live and work in San Francisco and its neighboring regions. Mr. Bekhbat said “ The West Coast is strategic region of enormous opportunities for Mongolian and United States collaboration; therefore, we’re excited to announce that we are opening a Consulate Office of Mongolia in this strategically oriented region during our presidential visit to the United States”. Afterwards, the president of Mongolia, Ts. Elbegdorj, provided appropriate answers to questions regarding the policy and implementation procedures so far in terms of his presidency. Also, the president exchanged views and opinions about government regulations on actual issues of voters’ rights in elections (who live and work abroad), open access overseas scholarships, fair competition for job positions, dual citizenship status, as well as right allocation of mineral resource shares to our population. 600 Mongolians who live and work in the US attended this meeting.

The President and his delegates also visited Stanford University and held roundtable talks with well known scholars of the university. Stanford University is one of the world’s leading research and teaching institutions, located in Palo Alto, California. The university is organised into seven schools including academic schools of Humanities and Sciences and Earth Sciences as well as professional schools of Business, Education, Engineering, Law, and Medicine. Stanford has a student body of approximately 6,900 undergraduate and 8,400 graduate students. Ts. Elbegdorj exchanged views over Mongolia-United States cooperation in education, especially over issues to educate students from Mongolia in particular professions at Stanford University.

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Acquiring Russian business visas is a two step process. The first part of the process is to acquire the  official business invitation . The second part of the process is to submit the visa application to a Russian consulate, but the application cannot be submitted until the business invitation is in order.

Official business invitations are issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry upon request by a Russian company or organization. Letters of invitation written on the letterhead of a  Russian company are not valid for visas; all business visa applicants must have an official invitation issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry. These official invitations can take one of two forms once issued: a paper invitation, or a Telex sent directly to the consulate.

Russian consulates used to accept faxed or scanned copies of paper business invitations, but  as of May 2011 the Russian consulates in the US no longer accept copies of invitations and require either the original paper invitation or a Telex .

Telex invitations are sent directly from the Foreign Ministry in Moscow to the directed consulate electronically. This means that when a visa applicant has a Russian company request the Telex invitation, they must specify at which consulate they will apply for the visa.  (We recommend that applicants request that their Telex be sent to the Embassy in Washington, DC.) When the Telex is issued, a Telex reference number will be generated. This Telex reference number should be supplied when the visa application is submitted at the Russian consulate.

The simplest way to get a Russian business invitation is to let G3 do it! Through our contacts in Russia, we are able to obtain official business invitations on behalf of our clients for single, double and multiple entry visas. G3′s invitation service can be initiated via email by sending a color scan of the passport, scans of any previous Russian visas and the invitation order form to the Russia@g3visas.com email address. Once the invitation is ready, the applicant can send the original passport, photo and visa application in for processing. G3′s invitation service is a convenient, streamlined approach to cutting through the bureaucratic red tape of the Russian government and ensuring your Russian visas are issued on time and accurately.

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