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You must be married to immigrate

 Every region of Russian federation has a tiny immigration quota. Last time I checked, the titanic 16 one thousand thousand-potent Moscow allows 5,000 people per year to emigrate without being married to a Russian citizen. Likewise making a massive contribution to the Russian economy or being a shut friend of the President in that location is no fashion you lot are getting around this quota, which gets instantly filled in but a few days after new years (when the quota is renewed).

Union to a Russian citizen guarantees you the opportunity (annotation I said opportunity, as in the run a risk) to apply for a Temporary Residency Permit. The regime wants people who immigrate here to start families and accept children - which I agree with, just if you are already married to a native of your state or happy beingness single, then, well… no immigration for you!

Russians e'er tell me that you can pay 5000 euros to a hot shot lawyer to buy your way into the immigration quotas. Maybe that is true, only I take never seen it work for anyone that I know.

Once you are here and married, y'all've got to act rapidly

Yous need a residency permit to live in Russia This means that you are probably going to go married hither while on a tourist visa that doesn't last long, so instead of going on your honeymoon, yous should immediately take a romantic getaway to the immigration center(s) in your region to starting time the hierarchy, because fourth dimension is burning apace and the immigration procedure could (and probably will) accept months.

You cannot live on tourist visas in Russia

Beingness on a tourist visa forbids you from working in Russia even if people tell you otherwise. Also they practise non last very long, at which fourth dimension y'all must exit the land for a while before beingness able to come up dorsum. When I moved to Russian federation you lot could constantly renew tourist visas, hop the border and return with no trouble. Those days are long gone.

Yous cannot work in Russia without a residency allow

 Hiring a strange employee is very hard and very expensive. Arriving in Moscow you may find someone who would beloved to hire you, just they only cannot do and so because it is likewise bureaucratically difficult. In one case you get residency, then you tin start looking for a chore. Certain y'all can work illegally educational activity English language or something, but that take chances is on yous.

Russia is not Europe

Moving to Russia will not go you any free money or the ability to live off of welfare. The authorities won't help yous immigrate either. If you come up here you have to work and think for yourself. There is no nanny-country, you're on your ain cowboy.

Besides the migration services are on the hunt for illegal immigrants, so accept your passport, registration and migration carte du jour on you lot at all times.

Most landlords will not register yous.

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To immigrate you need to be registered at a place of residence, i.e. y'all need to plant a permanent address, simply due to the fact that this registration gives the registered person some rights over the property, few landlords volition exercise this. Would yous hire your house to someone who could and so say they have squatter's rights over it?

Besides most landlords do not pay taxes, so they will not annals yous to dodge the tax authorities. For me personally, establishing a permanent address was the hardest box to check. Not having registration is a crime, which, if repeated enough times, is cause for deportation.

Visiting Russia is easy, immigrating is non!

 There is an former Russian expression, that says "you were born where you're in need" (Где родился, там и пригодился) which basically means that you were born in Prc, Africa, Canada or wherever for a reason, and y'all should stay there. In one case yous starting time the immigration procedure yous will see that the spirit of the law reflects the spirit of this expression.

Russian federation gives out tourist visas like candy. All you have to do is make full out some forms sloppily, pay a fee, go a pic taken, and you are off to visit the country for roughly a month. The process for filing for annihilation related to clearing is nothing like this.

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In order to immigrate y'all must provide the government the following…

• An officially notarized translation of every foreign document… and yes you need to pay for all this… and yep the quotes by famous Americans in a US passport must exist translated! (I recommend these people, they work inexpensive and the government accepts their translations, tell them Tim sent yous).
  • Note, very often you lot have to submit a total translation of your passport to dissimilar departments meaning you are going to exist buying passport translations in majority considering they do not return them. Hope y'all have deep pockets!
    
• Proof of a clean criminal groundwork in your home country.
  
• Proof of residence in Russia, which can be really catchy (or incommunicable) if your spouse does non ain an flat where you file.
  
• Knowledge of the Russian language and laws (yous accept to laissez passer various tests).
  
• Proof that you lot do not carry any sexually transmitted or other unsafe diseases similar HIV/AIDS. When I did this it required urine, blood from vein, blood from fingertip, flourographs, an inspection of your torso for needle punctures and a psychological check which I was shockingly able to pass. The war machine psychological exam is different, and that 1 I failed hardcore.
  
• Proof that you have enough coin to live off of, which pretty much means that they want proof that your spouse has a task, considering until you lot get permits to live in Russia, you are not allowed to piece of work in Russia. What a lovely Catch 22!
  
• And by far the hardest thing… the application.

And best of all no i will instruct or assist you do this, you are totally on your ain to navigate this mysterious bureaucratic journeying, which needs to be done to the tolerance of a nanometer.

You will lose weeks worth of piece of work days and countless thousands of rubles

Does the to a higher place list sound like a lot to you lot? Well it should because it takes a ton of time, you will lose a large amount of coin and weeks of your life every time you have to get through this process when your residency allow runs out. For those in Moscow the clearing center where everyone has to become to, lies 40km exterior the MKAD highway on the border of Moscow proper. Pregnant with traffic it is xc minutes one-fashion just for the immigration service workers to come across that you put a comma in the wrong place, rip up your documents and ship you back abode.

Going to the migration service basically requires an entire work day of your life, and it is going to take a lot of work days to get this thing done.

That damn application will destroy your soul

Unlike say the EU, Russia takes its borders and clearing very brutally seriously. They are non playing around. The migration service will treat you like a new recruit trying to bring together the Navy Seals - they volition put yous through hell to weed out the weak.

Every document you submit must be submitted exactly the way the government workers desire information technology, and if worker A told you to write something one way, there is a good chance worker B will tell y'all to write it some other way, and if worker C tells you to practice it a third way - that is your problem!

Ane time I got caught in a cycle of having to change comma positions, so I brought a laptop with me, got in line, got rejected, made the changes, went and printed out a new application, got dorsum in line, then repeated this process a few more times.

The adult female at the window was surprised to see me for the quaternary (5th?) time. When I gave her all the same another awarding I showed her that I had a 1000 ruble bill with me. Since copies then only cost 10 rubles I had plenty of ammo left in the magazine. Showing her the bill I said in a grim tone  "I've got all twenty-four hour period to make changes", to which she scoffed and accustomed my documents not fifty-fifty looking to encounter if I had made the concluding circular of changes.

In curt, all applications MUST Be FLAWLESS or they will be rejected. One spelling or punctuation error and it goes in the garbage. Yous volition begin to react to the Russian words for application - ankyeta (анкета) and zayavleniye (заявление) - like a Vietnam war veteran when he hears a sudden loud popping dissonance.

I have nix regrets

I beloved my life in Russia and have no regrets, merely immigrating was a nightmare. Perhaps, there is a method to this madness, because any person from exterior the former USSR can only move to Russian federation if they really Want to exist hither. And peradventure that is the way it should be.

Good luck hereafter immigrants, yous'll need it.

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Tim Kirby is an American who has been living and working in Russia since 2006. Tim has worked in diverse fields including media product, political analysis and video game development, and right now you volition see him as the host of many of our YouTube videos as he travels the country to show you what Russia is actually similar. Tim has 2 Russian children of his own.

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