Deputies unanimously adopted amendments on the «expulsion regime» of foreigners from the country in the third and final reading, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin reported on his Telegram channel. The bill has been published in the database of the lower house of parliament.
Foreign citizens to whom the «expulsion regime» is applied will be listed in a special «register of controlled persons».
Foreigners will be added to the register the day after the expiration of their temporary residence permit. Data will also be entered after visa cancellation, denial of refugee status, revocation of citizenship, a decision on administrative expulsion, and in the event of a verdict in a criminal case coming into force.
From the moment they are entered into the register, foreigners will be subject to prohibitions that limit their rights and freedoms: they will not be able to change their place of residence without permission from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, get married, buy real estate and cars, obtain a driver’s license and drive cars, open bank accounts and create a legal entity. They will be able to withdraw and transfer no more than 30 thousand rubles per month from open Russian accounts.
Foreigners added to the register will have to inform the police about their whereabouts. If it is impossible to come in person, you will need to send the employee your photo and geolocation tag.
If a foreigner violates the requirements of the “deportation regime” two or more times, he will be deported. The bill spells out the conditions under which foreign citizens will be excluded from the register: leaving Russia, settling their legal situation, or death.
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The bill halves the period of stay of foreign citizens in Russia without a visa, Volodin wrote. Currently, foreigners who have the right to visa-free entry to Russia can stay in the country for 90 days, or 180 days in total.
According to Vyacheslav Volodin, the expulsion regime «will help avoid gray and fraudulent schemes for legalizing» migrants.
According to the amendments, foreign citizens are obliged to “respect traditional Russian spiritual and moral values, including the idea of marriage as a union of a man and a woman, family, motherhood, paternity, childhood, and to comply with the requirement that distortion of the historical truth about the feat of the Soviet people during defense of the Fatherland and its contribution to the victory over fascism.»
In addition, “to maintain the right to enter” Russia, foreigners must: take care of the environment, respect the diversity of regional and ethnocultural structures of Russia, not interfere in the foreign and domestic policies of the state, not interfere with the exercise of rights and freedoms of Russian citizens and authorities.
Earlier, Volodin said that a total of 25 bills are being considered in the State Duma, “aimed at regulating migration control, determining the legal status of foreign citizens, and issues related to the granting of citizenship.”
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