We are one of St. Petersburg’s oldest companies dealing with labor migration issues, working steadily since the emergence of the need for this type of activity. This has allowed us to accumulate unique experience and build a highly qualified team for this area of activity.
Practika Labour & Migration Consulting and its holding RUSITA TRAVEL, provides support across the full spectrum of issues encountered upon the establishment of new businesses, obtaining appropriate accreditations and registration.
Our primary area of activity is supporting the legal status of foreign nationals visiting the Russian Federation for the purposes of hired employment, business travel and tourist travel, in full compliance with the migration laws of the Russian Federation.
In addition, we have been successful in providing assistance in processing of exit visas for citizens of the Russian Federation, given the good relationship we have established with the foreign consulates accredited in St. Petersburg.
We represent the interests of our clients in the FMS, AFMS, consulates, MIA, Federal Tax Service and various other administrative authorities.
When advising on any immigration issue, our specialists will offer ready-made solutions to common problems and the optimal means of resolving unforeseen situations, all on the basis of our wealth of experience.
Work visas
Corporate employers and individual entrepreneurs hiring foreign citizens from visa countries must obtain a special permission-accreditation from the Department for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
Registration of new enterprises
The most common forms of enterprises are limited liability companies (LLC).
The Path towards Russian Citizenship
There is a high demand for foreign specialists who can speak Russian that will pay taxes and benefit the country.
The Path towards Russian Citizenship
There is a high demand for foreign specialists who can speak Russian that will pay taxes and benefit the country.
Before becoming a Russian citizen, you need to go through some two stages:
– Getting a Temporary Residency Permit.
– Getting a Permanent Residency Permit.
Every person’s path to Russia is different and people come from many different backgrounds however the bureaucratic check boxes that need to be ticked in order to live in Russia are the same for everyone.
Some of the things you will need to be allowed to start your pathway to Russian citizenship are:
- A Russian Marriage Certificate
- Proof of Income
- Proof of Not Having Communicable Diseases
- Proof of Place of Residence
- Proof of Clean Criminal Background
- Professionally Translated and Notarized Copies of Your Passport
- Proof of Basic Knowledge of the Russian Language
There are many nuances to this process and we will work with you to make sure that your road to Russia is well paved. We will help you at every stage as none of these steps are hard, they are just hard to do the right way in accordance with Russia’s bureaucracy.
Years of experience
Strict confidentiality
Individual approach
Visa and Citizenship Services
► Navigate and assist you from your first step on the Russian soil
► Help you obtain Russian citizenship in the most efficient way
Educational and Transition Services
► Connect you with the best personal tutors and coaches
► Help you with your cultural transition
Professional and Translation Services
► Provide you with guides and interpreters
► Steer you through Russian civil law
The most common forms of enterprises are limited liability companies (LLC).
When opening a commercial organization, the founder of which is a foreign citizen, he may become the director of this company.
We are ready to provide the visa support to foreign members of the company, created in Russia:
Corporate employers and individual entrepreneurs hiring foreign citizens from visa countries must obtain a special permission-accreditation from the Department for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. Such permission is not required if labor migrants from visa-free countries (from a number of former republics of the USSR and other states) are hired. To hire such categories of employees, a migrant has an employment permit. Citizens from such states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) as Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan must not receive such permission. Employees from these countries can be hired on the same terms as Russians. After obtaining of this permission, the employer can already begin to execute invitations for future foreign employees to obtain entry employment visas and to issue employment permits for them.
In addition to the standard employment permits and employment visas, issued for a period of not more than 1 year, employment permits for highly qualified specialists (HQS) can be issued for up to 3 years.
A highly qualified specialist is entitled to invite members of his family to the Russian Federation, viz. spouse, children (including adopted), spouses of children, parents (including foster children), spouses of parents, grandparents, grandchildren. Visas for them are issued for accompanying family members for the period for which the documents of HQS are issued.
FAQ
It all depends on whether the organization (or a person) is the receiving party or inviter. It has various responsibilities.
Inviter is a person or legal entity that invited foreign citizens from countries with the visa entry into the Russian Federation. The purpose of such entry may be different. For example, work (work permit process), a business visa visit to the Russian Federation (executing invitations).
The responsibility of the inviter is to ensure that the invitee will have accommodation, medical assistance. The inviter must explain the laws of the Russian Federation and also remind the need for a timely departure from the Russian Federation of the invitee. If there are any difficulties with the departure, the inviter must help the invitee to resolve them. For this purpose it is necessary to maintain constant contact with the invitee.
From January 16, 2019, the inviter may be fined for failure to perform his duties (part 2 of article 18.9 of the Administrative Offences Code of the Russian Federation).
The receiving party is the employer, who provides the foreign employees with housing, a hotel or a hostel or a person, who owns an apartment. Any foreign citizen from a country with a visa or visa-free entry must get the migration registration at the place where he temporarily stays.
If the receiving party has not a file on the foreign citizen on the migration registration, then liability is incurred according to part 4 of art. 18.9 of the Administrative Offences Code of the Russian Federations.
If your organization sent a quarterly salary payment notification for a highly qualified specialist to the wrong address (by mail), then the foreigner must be dismissed. Otherwise, a fine is up to 1 million RBL and there is a possible ban on the Russian Aerospace Forces involvement for 2 years.
Such notifications should be submitted directly to the Head Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The result of such a delay may be the need to obtain an exit visa through the court and the ban on entry into the Russian Federation min. for 3 years.
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