Hi,
My wife and I are travelling to Moscow in July for a couple of days. I have seen the eyewatering visa fees which are going to be the most expensive part of our trip (avios redemption for biz flight, good deal on a decent hotel). The problem we will have is that as we are based in Somerset the need to travel into London to submit our visa applications is a real issue - as far as I can see it is working hours/working week only. Nobody at the visa service is being particularly forthcoming about the likelihood of them processing our application in a reasonable timescale.

What experience do you have? Do you have any advice because it is really putting us off the trip despite being very keen to go.

Thanks