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RUSSIA: Recent Immigration Changes
June 4, 2019
Effective 1 July 2019, Essential Skills and Religious Worker work visa holders will need to earn at least NZD 43,332.76 to support dependent children for a visitor or student visa (previously NZD 42,944.20).
Read MoreRUSSIA: Stricter Rules on Payment of State Fee for Letter of Invitation in Moscow
May 20, 2019
The state fee collected for issuance of letters of invitation at the Moscow migration office must now be paid from the bank account of the inviting company
Read MoreRUSSIA: Head Migration Office Stops Issuing Highly Qualified Specialist Work Permits
April 5, 2019
Effective 5 April 2019, the Head Migration Office located at Boyarsky Lane, in central Moscow, will cease accepting initial or renewal applications for work permits and visa invitations for highly qualified specialists (HQS) and their dependents.
Read MoreRUSSIA: New Obligations for Inviting Parties
January 17, 2019
On 16 January 2019, Federal law of 19.07.2018 #216-FZ came into force in Russia, imposing new obligations on companies which invite foreign nationals to Russia from visa-required countries (this includes visits on work and business visas).
Read MoreUKRAINE: Stricter Border Controls for Russian Nationals Under Martial Law
November 30, 2018
Effective 26 November 2018 until 27 December 2018, Ukraine has declared martial law in the regions of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Odessa, Nikolaev and Vinnitsa.
Read MoreRUSSIA: Optional Deregistration of Foreign Nationals Now Available
November 14, 2018
Effective immediately, the Russian authorities have introduced optional deregistration of foreign nationals on demand.
Read MoreRUSSIA: Delays In Acceptance of Work Permit Applications in Moscow
September 27, 2018
Effective immediately, Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) officials at the Moscow migration office in Sakharovo are neither checking nor registering work permit applications on the day of submission, due to technical difficulties.
Read MoreRUSSIA: Update – New Address Registration Rules
July 16, 2018
New rules for the registration of foreign nationals in Russia, from 8 July 2018, mean that employers will no longer be able to register their foreign national employees at the company address, and that employers or landlords will be responsible for carrying out the registration.
Read MoreRUSSIA: Salary Notifications for Highly Qualified Specialists to be Submitted by 31st July 2018
June 29, 2018
Russian employers of highly qualified specialists (HQS) have until 31 July 2018 to notify the migration authorities of salaries paid to these foreign national employees in the second quarter of 2018 (1 April to 30 June 2018).
Read MoreRUSSIA: New Law on Counter-Sanctions Does Not Directly Restrict Immigration
June 11, 2018
From 4 June 2018, Federal Law No. 127-FZ “On Measures of Affect (Counteraction) in Connection with Unfriendly Actions of the United States of America and other Foreign States” authorises Russia to impose responsive restriction measures on the US and other foreign states at the President’s decision.
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