Work visas to Russia for 2010 y.
Time to arrange work invitation from 3 weeks to 2 month through UFMS.

Based on the last year results, the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation reported a fourfold increase in the number of foreign citizens documented with work permits, with the total number of people granted work permits exceeding 2.1 million.

The Administrative rules on rendering the state service on delivery of documents resolving labour activity to foreign citizens in territory of the Russian Federation has started to operate.

The Federal Migration Service of Russia would like to inform you that an administrative order No. 11480, registered with the Ministry of Justice of Russia on 9 April 2008, on provision of governmental services related to issuance of documents authorizing labour activity of foreign citizens on the territory of the Russian Federation, came into force on 24 August 2008.

If a foreign citizen has decided to come to the Russian Federation, it is necessary for him/her to know some principal rules of sojourn of foreign citizens in the Russian Federation.
We ask to take this information in a most responsible way. The success of a foreign citizen's trip may depend upon it.
Since January 2007, in accordance with the Federal Law on Migration Registration of Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons and by the Governmental Regulation of the Russian Federation on Approving the Rules of Exercising the Migration Registration of Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons in the Russian Federation, the registration of foreign citizens and stateless persons at the place of sojourn is annulled and the migration registration of foreign citizens at the place of sojourn in the Russian Federation is introduced instead.

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To enter the Russian Federation a foreign citizen must submit a valid identity document, accepted as such by the Russian Federation, and a visa, if no other order of entry into the Russian Federation is established by an international agreement.
Procedure and terms of issue and provision of a visa, extending its validity period, reissue in case of loss as well as visa cancellation procedure are established by the Russian Federation Government Regulation № 335, adopted June 9, 2003 (with amendments and additions contained in the Government Regulation № 635, October 4, 2007). Fundamental provisions of the mentioned Procedure are in full conformity with the Agreement between the Russian Federation and the European Community on visa issue facilitation for nationals of the Russian Federation and the European Union that entered into force on June 1, 2007.

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