On 24.01.2017 12:42 AM, Clank wrote:
On 23.01.2017 7:56 PM, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:30:21 on Mon, 23 Jan
2017, Clank remarked:

Of course, everyone has the right to do things their own way. I'm
intimately familiar with Russian visas, and there they do have a separate
visa for business as opposed to tourism. That's mainly a mechanism for
charging more for the benefits of a business visa - not, surprisingly the
right to do business in particular (you don't even have to show you intend
to to get one, you just buy your invitation from a different place), but
rather the more expensive business visa gives you multiple entries over a
year, rather than the tourist visa which is issued for the exact number of
days of your planned trip.

Just to show Usenet is living up to its reputation of provoking
counter-examples, I've got a Russian visa for what they classified as a
business trip, valid for one entry/exit during a 30 day window.

Ah, I think the point you're making might be "it's possible to apply for a
business visa without any of the benefits which make a business visa
useful". Which is of course true, in the sense that it is possible to buy
a first class rail ticket and then travel in standard class. It makes you
an idiot, but we are rather used to that. (I bet you won't even believe
the visa for Turkey I obtained today was delivered electronically - much
like mobile boarding passes and ticketing, unpossible!)