Putin Freezes Visas and Migration Cards Expiry From Mid-March to Mid-June

09:41, April 22, 2020

Important information for international students

You can call International Mobility Center for more information on migration regulations. Photo: Ilya Safarov.

On April 18, Vladimir Putin signed a Presidential Executive Order that freezes visa expiry dates for foreign citizens legally residing, or working in Russia. Visas and migration cards get expiry permit waivers from March 15 until June 15 of 2020.

Here is the full text:

In order to regulate the legal status of foreign citizens and stateless persons in the Russian Federation, to prevent the further spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), being guided by Article 80 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, it is decided:

1. To suspend for the period from March 15 to June 15, 2020 of:

a) the terms of temporary stay, temporary or permanent residence of foreign citizens and stateless persons in the Russian Federation, the periods for which foreign citizens and stateless persons are registered at the place of stay or registered at the place of residence, if such terms expire on the specified date period;

b) the terms of staying outside the Russian Federation for participants in the State program to facilitate the voluntary resettlement of compatriots living abroad, members of their families, persons who have received a temporary residence permit or residence permit, if these persons are not able to enter to the Russian Federation before the expiration of a 6-month period of stay outside it, necessary for making a decision on the cancellation of a certificate of a participant in the State Program s to assist the voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of compatriots living abroad (hereinafter - certificate of the participant of the State program), a temporary residence permit or a residence permit;

c) the deadlines for the voluntary departure from the Russian Federation of foreign citizens and stateless persons, in respect of whom a decision was made on administrative expulsion from the Russian Federation, on deportation or transfer to a foreign state in accordance with the international agreement of the Russian Federation on readmission;

d) the validity period of the following documents whose validity period expires during the specified period: visa, temporary residence permit, residence permit, migration card with the expiration date stamped in it, refugee certificate, certificate of consideration of the application for refugee status the territory of the Russian Federation in essence, certificate of temporary asylum in the territory of the Russian Federation, certificate of participation in the State program, work permit, patent, permission to attract and use foreign workers.

2. To establish that in the period from March 15 to June 15, 2020:

a) employers and customers of works (services), subject to the fulfillment of established restrictions and other measures aimed at ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population, are entitled, in the manner determined by the legislation of the Russian Federation, to attract and use as employees:

foreign citizens and stateless persons who arrived in the Russian Federation in the manner requiring a visa and do not have a work permit in the Russian Federation (if employers and customers (work) have permission to attract and use foreign workers);

foreign citizens and stateless persons who arrived in the Russian Federation in an order that does not require a visa and they do not have patents;

b) in relation to foreign citizens and stateless persons no decisions are made on the undesirability of their stay (residence), on administrative expulsion from the Russian Federation, on deportation or transfer to a foreign state in accordance with the international treaty of the Russian Federation on readmission, a decision on the deprivation of refugee status , temporary asylum, the cancellation of previously issued visas, work permits, patents, temporary residence permits, residence permits, certificates of participant of the State programs.

For inquiries

If you want to apply:

E-mail: admission@urfu.ru 
Phone: +7 (343) 375-46-27; 7 (343) 389-94-08

If you want to clarify your visa status:

E-mail: adaptation@urfu.ru
Phone: +7 (343) 375-41-93