Moratorium on deportation of migrants has ceased to operate in Russia
Due to the pandemic, the moratorium was extended several times, and now they have made concessions for those migrants who at least managed to get registered with the migration authorities. The rest will not be deported, but fined.
From October 1, Russia officially renewed deportation of illegal migrants, but not all, writes Kommersant. The moratorium, which allows foreigners not to renew documents on temporary stay and residence, was in force for a year and a half.
The simplified order was introduced in the spring of the year due to the pandemic and in June of this year extended until the end of September. Closer to this date, huge queues of newcomers were once again formed at the migration centers.
But the authorities again made concessions, although this time not for everyone.
The relief until December 30 will be valid only for those illegal immigrants who managed to introduce migration registration in order to notify them of the address of stay, said Valentina Kazakova, the head of the Main Directorate for Relocation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs the other day.
But the rest of the deportation from Russia because of the closed borders is not yet threatened. “Structural divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs received recommendations to limit opportunities for violating foreigners without overcrowding special institutions as part of the deportation procedure,” writes the Kommersant newspaper with reference to the document.
More than a million illegal migrants come under sanctions, Business FM told Head of the Center for Analytical and Practical Research of Migration Processes Vyacheslavnin:
– Why is it still not regulated? As a matter of fact, they did not regulate their legal status before. Because migration registration is such a complicated thing, it is easier to take bribes or buy this fake migration registration.
– What is required, what procedures do you need to go through to get registered?
– The most important thing is to find a place where you can register for migration. That’s the problem – the location. If you live with someone, rent an apartment, according to the law, the owner must come with the migrant to the police station and put him on the migration register. Not all owners want to do this. The second reason is that a lot of people live in these apartments.
– We understand that now, apparently, these people will simply be fined, but not deported?
– It is clear that it is impossible to deport over a million people there. Even if the borders are open, then they must be kept somewhere, in general, this is an overflow of the IVS. And the fact that they will simply be fined is completely incomprehensible to me. So what, well, you fined him, and then what? And he walks again. Then you fined him again. It is more correct to export these people, if you export them, to fine them and force them to register for migration. Otherwise, it will simply lead to bribes, this is some kind of nonsense, in my opinion.
– We constantly say that the industries do not have enough, in particular, construction, migrants. In theory, all the migrants who are now in the country, how big is the percentage of them employed?
– It is obvious that the overwhelming majority, 95%, of course, work. It is amazing. Let us, on the one hand, invite these migrants to construction sites, we need them, five million people, and on the other hand, we will deport a million from here.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in Russia now are a total of seven million migrants, both registered and illegal.
