9 april 2013

Dmitry Medvedev, while on a working visit to Nizhny Novgorod, inspects the regional migration centre of the Federal Migration Service Directorate

Participants:

The Prime Minister reviewed the Territory application, developed by the Federal Migration Service to monitor the arrival of immigrants from other Russian regions and foreign citizens in the region, and to raise alerts of migration registrations that have expired. Similar applications have been installed in every Russian region this year.

Dmitry Medvedev also reviewed an interactive map of the Federal Migration Service, which includes a computer-aided analytical reporting system. The number of foreign nationals that have arrived, reside in or are visiting  Russia, is reported as real-time scrolling text.

The Prime Minister also visited a medical centre belonging to the Federal Migration Service Directorate and a fingerprint lab.

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The migration centre of the Federal Migration Service Directorate in the Nizhny Novgorod Region was established to provide state services to the public, including:

- Issuing permits to employ foreign nationals, issuing work permits and licences to foreign nationals and stateless persons;

- Issuing temporary residence permits to foreign nationals and stateless persons.

As well as departments for labour migration, citizenship and residence permits, the centre also includes a passport and visa service, and a medical centre.

The building has a total area of 652 sq metres. The offices have been designed and equipped specifically for receiving members of the public.

There is an office providing related services such as translation, notary services, consultancy services and photography. Visitors check into an electronic queue. Foreign nationals can use applications with special bar codes containing their personal details so that data does not have to be manually entered. A Live Scanner is used for fingerprinting. The centre is also fitted with modern medical equipment.

The centre serves up to 200 customers daily. The medical centre accepts up to 120 people a day.

The upgrades have allowed the migration service to significantly reduce the number of shadow migration related services. Registration of immigrants is becoming more transparent and easier to control.

Since the establishment of the centre in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the number of work permits and licenses issued to foreign nationals and stateless persons has gone up from 21,900 in 2011 to 30,300 in 2012.