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Notification on the conclusion or termination of an employment contract (Hereafter Notification) should be submitted in one day.

Ministry of Labor of Russia prepared a bill on decreasing the submission period of notifications to MIA. The bill says about the submission of notifications in a period not exceeding 1 business day and only in electronic form. Recall that the deadline for submitting notifications today is 3 business days from the date of conclusion or termination. You can also send notifications in person or by post.
It is planned that the Heads of the regions will select and form a List of professions for which either too many or too few foreign workers apply. Based on that List, Authorities may not issue required documents, like patent, for professions with high demand among Russian citizens. Authorities should inform Employers of such limits in a period not later than 3 months.

Voluntary Health Insurance (VHI) policy under the program “Labor Migrant” - a mandatory document for the employment of a foreign citizen in the Russian Federation

Recently, cases of purchase by foreign citizens from the CIS countries and the EAEU of policies under the “anti-mite” (ANTIKLESH) program have become more frequent. Employees of the Russian Post and Mobile Communications misinform foreign citizens who plan to work on the territory of the Russian Federation. The cost of such policies attracts the latter, because the price is lower than the VHI policies of the Labor Migrant program, which contain the types of medical care established by law.
The insurance agents cite many reasons why the “anti-mice” policy is attractive for migrants: the amount of insurance payment exceeds 1 million rubles; emergency care; the doctor's consultation. However, insurance agents do not warn that medical assistance in this case will be provided only upon the occurrence of an insured event, i.e. mite bite.
Before purchasing a VHI policy for employment in the territory of the Russian Federation, we recommend that foreign citizens familiarize themselves with the Directive of the Central Bank (September 13, 2015 No. 3793-U), which sets out the requirements for the conditions and procedure of obtaining VHI for foreign citizens and stateless persons.

The Border Service of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation shares information

15 million foreign citizens arrived to the Russian Federation with different purposes over the first half of the year. Of these, 2.4 million people entered with the objective to perform work on the territory of the Russian Federation. The majority came from neighboring countries (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Kazakhstan). Other countries (China, Turkey, Germany, Great Britain) sent much fewer workers to Russia. These data were shared by the Federal Border Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation. It turns out that the data of the Federal State Statistics Service, which previously provided information on the number of foreigners based on the report of local authorities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, are incomplete and take into account a much smaller quantity of foreign citizens.

According to an expert from the Moscow State University, this discrepancy has to do with different counting approaches of foreign citizens. For example, take a foreign citizen crossing the border 5 times during the year. The Border Guard Service of the Federal Security Service would count his crossings 5 times, while the Federal Migration Service only considers it as 1 time, because the purpose of entry was always the same – WORK. On the contrary, the numbers of the Border Guard Service may not be entirely accurate, believes the expert.