- 30.12.2019
- Posted by: jaxspb
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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.