Russians received 130,000 British visas last year
During 2010, the British Embassy in Russia issued more than 130,000 visas to citizens of our country, which is about 20% more than a year earlier.
The number of visas issued is expected to increase in 2011. According to experts and employees of the British Consulate, obtaining a visa to the UK is not so difficult. And the number of refusals is only 8% of the total number of applications.
But France, for example, refuses to issue visas to Russians in 2.5% of cases, for the Netherlands this figure is 2%, and the Czech Republic, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Finland and Estonia reject only 1% of applications. Obviously, against the background of other European countries, Britain looks like the record holder for the number of refusals.
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