In particular, Moscow is allowed to temporarily register only 1,000 foreigners, the Moscow Region – 6,200, St. Petersburg – 2,000, and the Leningrad Region – 1,000. According to the document, in the Central Federal District, 26,450 foreigners can obtain a temporary residence permit this year, in the Northwestern Federal District – 10,280, in the Southern Federal District – 8,600, in the Volga Federal District – 25,300, in the Ural Federal District – 7,500, in the Siberian Federal District – 18,745, and in the Far Eastern Federal District – 10,550.
It should be recalled that in Russia a temporary residence permit is issued for three years. When applying for a temporary residence permit, a foreign citizen (stateless person) is subject to mandatory state fingerprint registration. A state fee is charged for the issuance of a temporary residence permit in accordance with the procedure established by law.
A foreign citizen (stateless person) who has received a temporary residence permit is warned that, in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 11 of the law, he or she is not entitled to change his or her place of residence within the constituent entity of the Russian Federation where temporary residence is permitted, or to choose a place of residence outside that constituent entity, at his or her own discretion. If he or she has committed acts provided for in Article 7 of the law, the internal affairs body decides to cancel his or her temporary residence permit and to issue him or her a visa to leave the Russian Federation. Security bodies, the bailiff service, tax authorities, social security authorities, health care authorities and other interested bodies, upon detecting the said acts committed by a foreign citizen, shall inform the internal affairs body thereof within no more than 10 days. The foreign citizen is notified by the internal affairs body within three days of the decision taken, and is also warned of the need to leave the Russian Federation within 15 days from the date of the decision. At the same time, an appropriate note on the cancellation of the temporary residence permit is made in the identity document of the foreign citizen, and if a stateless person had a temporary residence permit issued in the form of a document of the established form, the permit is withdrawn. In the event of the foreign citizen's failure to leave the Russian Federation within the established period, the internal affairs body takes measures to deport him or her in accordance with the procedure provided for by Russian legislation.
It should be noted that in November of last year, Acting Head of the Department of External Labor Migration of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) of Russia Vyacheslav Postavnin said that the agency planned to grant amnesty to about a million CIS citizens illegally working in Russia. As the head of the FMS, Konstantin Romodanovsky, later explained, this would make it possible to provide migrants with the social benefits that Russians enjoy.
It is worth noting that currently, according to various estimates, the number of illegal migrants in Russia ranges from 7 to 14 million. At the same time, according to Rosstat, the country has over 5 million of its own citizens who do not have jobs.