Read the list of documents which need to be submitted with your visa application based on your travel purpose and prepare the documents carefully. Please always choose the correct travel purpose.
Short stay (less than 90 days)
You wish to go to Belgium for business purposes and will stay no longer than 90 days.
Long stay (more than 90 days)
You wish to go to Belgium for business purposes and will stay longer than 90 days.
Work visa issuance in the base of work permit (type B) or professional card.
Short stay (less than 90 days)
For people travelling with the purpose of tourism, staying at a hotel or in a rented flat.
For people who wish to visit relatives or friends, staying in their homes.
For people who traveling together with the EEA family member or joining the EEA family member.
Long stay (more than 90 days)
For people who married to a Belgian citizen who resides in Belgium.
For people whose relative is a non-citizen of a European Member state nor of the EEA.
For people whose parents are Belgian citizen who resides in Belgium.
For parents whose child is Belgian citizen who resides in Belgium.
For people who wish to marry in Belgium.
The visa "with a view to declaring a legal cohabitation in Belgium".
Short stay (less than 90 days)
For people undergoing medical treatment or getting medical advice.
For medical visa, applicants are requested to contact the Embassy by e-mail before submitting their applications: moscow.visa@diplobel.fed.be.
Short stay (less than 90 days)
For people who are going to study in Belgium.
Long stay (more than 90 days)
For a study-related stay in Belgium, you must apply for a temporary residence permit for study.
Short stay (less than 90 days)
For people (athletes, coaches, trainers, support staff, etc.) participating actively in sport events or trainings or for artists and other people who are participating actively in cultural events in Belgium (not for spectators at such events or tourists on a skiing holiday).
For people transiting through Belgium/the Schengen zone or having a flight within the Schengen zone on their way to a final destination outside the Schengen area.
Only required for certain nationalities who need visa for staying in the international transit zone of an airport, not applicable for Russian citizens.
IN TIME OF COVID, for a short stay in Belgium (less than 90 days), the traveler must present a C visa issued after 18/03/2020 OR a C visa issued before 18/03/2020 with an “essential travel certificate”.
Long stay (more than 90 days)
For Belgium residents who has a temporary residence permit.
Visa for specific cases when conditions for family reunion is not possible (grandmother living alone in Russia, dependent family that cannot live alone, etc.) or other cases of humanitarian nature.