A foreign citizen planning to stay in the RF territory for more than 7 days shall be posted to the migration accounts at the place of his actual stay. For this purpose, he shall fill in a notice on arrival of a foreign citizen and hand it over to the territorial branch of FMS or mail it as a registered letter in any post office. The notice shall be filled in by the host party (a legal entity or a natural person). In case if the procedure of posting to the migration accounts is implemented by a legal entity, the address of this legal entity can be specified as the place of actual stay of the foreign citizen. Upon forwarding of the notice, the detachable section marked by the organization, which has received the notice (FMS or Russian Post) will remain in hand. Availability in hand of the detachable section of the notice shall be a proof of the fact that the foreign citizen has been posted to the migration accounts.
Documents necessary for posting to the migration accounts (registration) of a foreign citizen:
а) for foreign citizens, who have arrived from the countries with visa-free regime:
– passport (copies of the pages with the personal data and the validity term of the passport);
– migration card (a copy).
- b) for foreign citizens, who have arrived from the countries with visa regime:
– passport (copies of the pages with the personal data and the validity term of the passport, as well as the pages with the visa);
– migration card (a copy).
The migration registration requirements are mainly effective in relation to labour migrants because, as distinguished from registration, the address of the place of stay at migration registration, residential premises (house, apartment, hotel) may not be necessarily indicated; indication of the non-residential premises at the migrant’s place of work shall be admissible (it can even be temporary barracks in the construction site, in which registration of citizens is prohibited).
The “Procedure of posting foreign citizens to the accounts at the place of stay and removal of them from the accounts” can be read here.
The penalty for violation of the migration registration rules (for instance, late posting to the migration accounts) shall amount from 2, 000 Rbl. to 5, 000 Rbl. Besides, if within the time of stay by a foreign citizen in the RF territory, he committed more than 2 administrative offences (late posting to the migration accounts, penalties and other offences), this citizen can be entered into the list of persons, to whom an entry into RF is prohibited for a term from 2 to 5 years.
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