Digital register of labor migrants

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2024: Work to create a registry

In Russia, from 2025, a digital register for labor migrants will begin work, the purpose of which is to increase control over their stay and work in the country. This initiative is aimed at strengthening control over compliance with migration laws and more effective management of labor migration. The development of the register became one of the key topics at the end of August 2024 at a meeting of the government commission on migration policy chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova.

According to Kommersant, the bill providing for the creation of the register was adopted by the State Duma in June 2024 and signed by the President in August 2024. It is expected that the register will begin to function on February 5, 2025. However, as of August 2024, there are no regulatory documents that would describe in detail the parameters and rules for the functioning of this register.

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Deputy Minister of Digital Development Oleg Kachanov noted that the department is ready to create the necessary IT infrastructure for the implementation of the project, but has not yet received specific instructions on its parameters. First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Alexander Gorovoy stressed that the simultaneous inclusion of all illegal migrants in the register could overload the system, so he proposed an amnesty for those who committed minor offenses. This proposal was also supported by the representative of the FSB Vladislav Menshchikov.

Another important topic of the meeting was the problem of registering migrants. Alexander Gorovoy pointed out the difficulties faced by officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs when accepting applications for registration from persons who do not live at the specified address. In turn, many landlords are not ready to register migrants in their accommodation due to a lack of understanding of this process. The Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to expand the possibilities for registering migrants in construction towns and apartments in order to facilitate the process of legalizing their stay.^[1]

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