I have been up to Sakhalin many times in the past and this was for a company based in Singapore so our passports all went into the Russian Embassy in Singapore and it took a 2 days .
When your visa was ready you picked up your passport at the gate house at the embassy .
I think this is the job for TMT so not sure how there getting there visas since there over in Australia .
Cheers i have seen the form now and passport has to go to Visa agent.
TMT well its not them lost enough time with them this year waiting for paperworks from there useless client which happens to be there major share holder.