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You must be married to immigrate

 Every region of Russia has a tiny immigration quota. Last fourth dimension I checked, the titanic 16 million-potent Moscow allows 5,000 people per twelvemonth to immigrate without being married to a Russian denizen. Besides making a massive contribution to the Russian economy or being a close friend of the President in that location is no way you are getting around this quota, which gets instantly filled in but a few days later on new years (when the quota is renewed).

Marriage to a Russian citizen guarantees y'all the opportunity (note I said opportunity, as in the take chances) to apply for a Temporary Residency Permit. The authorities wants people who emigrate hither to start families and accept children - which I agree with, just if you lot are already married to a native of your country or happy existence single, then, well… no immigration for you lot!

Russians always tell me that y'all tin can pay 5000 euros to a hot shot lawyer to buy your way into the immigration quotas. Mayhap that is truthful, merely I accept never seen it work for anyone that I know.

One time you are here and married, you've got to act quickly

You need a residency let to live in Russia This means that you are probably going to become married here while on a tourist visa that doesn't last long, and so instead of going on your honeymoon, you should immediately take a romantic getaway to the clearing centre(s) in your region to start the bureaucracy, because time is burning quickly and the immigration process could (and probably will) take months.

You cannot alive on tourist visas in Russia

Being on a tourist visa forbids yous from working in Russia even if people tell you otherwise. Also they do not last very long, at which time you must get out the country for a while earlier being able to come up back. When I moved to Russian federation you could constantly renew tourist visas, hop the edge and return with no problem. Those days are long gone.

You cannot work in Russia without a residency permit

 Hiring a foreign employee is very hard and very expensive. Arriving in Moscow you may find someone who would love to hire you, but they simply cannot do so because it is too bureaucratically hard. In one case you get residency, then you can offset looking for a task. Certain you tin can work illegally teaching English or something, only that risk is on you.

Russia is not Europe

Moving to Russian federation will not get you whatsoever free money or the ability to live off of welfare. The authorities won't help you immigrate either. If you come up here you have to work and think for yourself. There is no nanny-state, you're on your own cowboy.

Also the migration services are on the hunt for illegal immigrants, so have your passport, registration and migration card on you at all times.

Most landlords will not annals you.

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To immigrate you demand to be registered at a place of residence, i.e. y'all need to found a permanent address, just due to the fact that this registration gives the registered person some rights over the property, few landlords volition practice this. Would you rent your house to someone who could then say they take squatter's rights over it?

Also near landlords do not pay taxes, so they will not register you to contrivance the tax authorities. For me personally, establishing a permanent address was the hardest box to check. Not having registration is a criminal offence, which, if repeated enough times, is crusade for displacement.

Visiting Russia is easy, immigrating is not!

 There is an sometime Russian expression, that says "y'all were born where you're in demand" (Где родился, там и пригодился) which basically means that you were born in Mainland china, Africa, Canada or wherever for a reason, and you should stay in that location. Once y'all kickoff the immigration process you will see that the spirit of the constabulary reflects the spirit of this expression.

Russia gives out tourist visas similar processed. All you accept to do is fill up out some forms sloppily, pay a fee, become a picture taken, and yous are off to visit the country for roughly a month. The process for filing for anything related to immigration is nothing like this.

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In order to immigrate you lot must provide the government the following…

• An officially notarized translation of every foreign certificate… and yes you need to pay for all this… and yes the quotes by famous Americans in a US passport must be translated! (I recommend these people, they work inexpensive and the regime accepts their translations, tell them Tim sent you).
  • Annotation, very frequently you have to submit a full translation of your passport to different departments meaning you are going to be buying passport translations in bulk because they do not return them. Hope y'all have deep pockets!
    
• Proof of a make clean criminal background in your home country.
  
• Proof of residence in Russia, which can be really tricky (or impossible) if your spouse does not ain an apartment where you file.
  
• Noesis of the Russian language and laws (yous have to laissez passer various tests).
  
• Proof that you do not bear whatsoever sexually transmitted or other dangerous diseases like HIV/AIDS. When I did this it required urine, blood from vein, blood from fingertip, flourographs, an inspection of your body for needle punctures and a psychological check which I was shockingly able to pass. The war machine psychological test is unlike, and that i I failed hardcore.
  
• Proof that you have enough money to live off of, which pretty much means that they desire proof that your spouse has a job, because until you become permits to alive in Russian federation, you lot are not allowed to work in Russia. What a lovely Grab 22!
  
• And by far the hardest matter… the application.

And best of all no one volition instruct or help you lot do this, you lot are totally on your own to navigate this mysterious bureaucratic journey, which needs to exist done to the tolerance of a nanometer.

Y'all will lose weeks worth of work days and countless thousands of rubles

Does the above listing sound like a lot to you lot? Well information technology should because information technology takes a ton of time, you volition lose a large amount of coin and weeks of your life every time you take to go through this process when your residency permit runs out. For those in Moscow the immigration center where everyone has to get to, lies 40km outside the MKAD highway on the edge of Moscow proper. Meaning with traffic information technology is 90 minutes one-way but for the immigration service workers to run into that yous put a comma in the wrong place, rip upwards your documents and ship you back habitation.

Going to the migration service basically requires an entire work 24-hour interval of your life, and it is going to accept a lot of work days to get this thing done.

That damn awarding will destroy your soul

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

Every document you submit must be submitted exactly the way the authorities workers want information technology, and if worker A told you to write something one way, in that location is a good chance worker B will tell you to write it another style, and if worker C tells you to do it a third manner - that is your problem!

One time I got defenseless in a wheel of having to change comma positions, then I brought a laptop with me, got in line, got rejected, made the changes, went and printed out a new application, got back in line, then repeated this process a few more times.

The adult female at the window was surprised to meet me for the fourth (fifth?) time. When I gave her yet another application I showed her that I had a 1000 ruble nib with me. Since copies and then just 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 day to brand changes", to which she scoffed and accepted my documents not fifty-fifty looking to run into if I had made the last round of changes.

In short, all applications MUST Exist FLAWLESS or they will exist rejected. One spelling or punctuation fault and it goes in the garbage. You will begin to react to the Russian words for application - ankyeta (анкета) and zayavleniye (заявление) - similar a Vietnam war veteran when he hears a sudden loud popping racket.

I accept cipher regrets

I love my life in Russia and take no regrets, only immigrating was a nightmare. Possibly, there is a method to this madness, because any person from exterior the onetime USSR can simply move to Russia if they really WANT to be hither. And possibly that is the fashion it should be.

Skillful luck hereafter immigrants, you'll need information technology.

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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 production, political analysis and video game development, and right now yous will come across him as the host of many of our YouTube videos equally he travels the state to show yous what Russia is really like. Tim has ii Russian children of his own.

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