Great Service at Russian Consulate

<p>I want to take a moment to say Большое спасибо to Maria Shishmareva for amazing and efficient service in helping me get my 90-day Russian visa to see my wife in Russia. She took the time to personally sign, verify and stamp my Russian/English apostle, which was the final document I needed to emigrate to Russia.<br /><br />She's also helped me in 2015 and 2014 with my tourist visa to Russia and I'm almost quite sure she also helped me with my 2012 tourist visa to Russia. I wish more staff could be as helpful and efficient as Maria and I can say as a South African citizen that she is certainly more helpful and friendly than our staff at Home Affairs. I wish that South African civil servants could produce the same quality work.<br /><br />I'm emigrating to Russia to become a Russian citizen and Maria made the effort to source the correct information from the FMS (Federal Migration Service) regarding my Residence Permit, when she could so easily have advised me to simply check the FMS website.  Keep up the awesome work and know that Russia can be proud to have great people like you representing the Russian Federation in South Africa ;)</p>