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You must be married to immigrate

 Every region of Russia has a tiny clearing quota. Last time I checked, the titanic xvi million-stiff Moscow allows 5,000 people per year to emigrate without being married to a Russian denizen. Besides making a massive contribution to the Russian economy or being a shut friend of the President there is no fashion you are getting around this quota, which gets instantly filled in just a few days after new years (when the quota is renewed).

Matrimony to a Russian citizen guarantees you the opportunity (annotation I said opportunity, as in the chance) to apply for a Temporary Residency Permit. The government wants people who emigrate here to start families and have children - which I agree with, but if you are already married to a native of your land or happy being single, then, well… no immigration for you!

Russians always tell me that you tin can pay 5000 euros to a hot shot lawyer to buy your way into the immigration quotas. Maybe that is true, but I accept never seen it work for anyone that I know.

Once you are hither and married, you lot've got to act rapidly

You lot need a residency permit to live in Russia This means that yous are probably going to go married hither while on a tourist visa that doesn't concluding long, so instead of going on your honeymoon, y'all should immediately take a romantic getaway to the clearing center(s) in your region to start the bureaucracy, considering time is burning quickly and the clearing process could (and probably will) take months.

You cannot live on tourist visas in Russia

Being on a tourist visa forbids y'all from working in Russia even if people tell you lot otherwise. Also they practise not concluding very long, at which time yous must leave the country for a while before being able to come back. When I moved to Russia you could constantly renew tourist visas, hop the edge and return with no problem. Those days are long gone.

You cannot piece of work in Russia without a residency allow

 Hiring a foreign employee is very hard and very expensive. Arriving in Moscow you may find someone who would love to rent you, just they just cannot do so considering it is too bureaucratically difficult. In one case yous go residency, then you can first looking for a job. Sure you can work illegally teaching English or something, but that take a chance is on you.

Russia is not Europe

Moving to Russia will not get you any complimentary coin or the ability to live off of welfare. The government won't help you emigrate either. If you come here you have to piece of work and call up for yourself. At that place is no nanny-state, you're on your ain cowboy.

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

Most landlords will not annals yous.

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To emigrate you need to be registered at a place of residence, i.east. you lot need to establish a permanent address, but due to the fact that this registration gives the registered person some rights over the property, few landlords will do this. Would you lot rent your house to someone who could then say they accept squatter'due south rights over it?

Besides most landlords exercise not pay taxes, and so they will not annals you to dodge the taxation authorities. For me personally, establishing a permanent address was the hardest box to check. Not having registration is a crime, which, if repeated enough times, is cause for deportation.

Visiting Russia is easy, immigrating is non!

 There is an erstwhile Russian expression, that says "you were born where y'all're in demand" (Где родился, там и пригодился) which basically means that you lot were born in China, Africa, Canada or wherever for a reason, and you should stay there. Once you start the clearing process you will see that the spirit of the police reflects the spirit of this expression.

Russia gives out tourist visas like candy. All you have to do is fill out some forms sloppily, pay a fee, get a motion-picture show taken, and y'all are off to visit the state for roughly a month. The process for filing for anything related to immigration is nothing similar this.

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In guild to emigrate y'all must provide the government the following…

• An officially notarized translation of every foreign certificate… and yes you need to pay for all this… and yep the quotes by famous Americans in a US passport must be translated! (I recommend these people, they work cheap and the regime accepts their translations, tell them Tim sent you).
  • Annotation, very oftentimes yous have to submit a total translation of your passport to different departments meaning you are going to be buying passport translations in majority because they do not return them. Promise you have deep pockets!
    
• Proof of a clean criminal background in your domicile country.
  
• Proof of residence in Russia, which can be really tricky (or impossible) if your spouse does not own an apartment where you lot file.
  
• Knowledge of the Russian linguistic communication and laws (y'all have to pass diverse tests).
  
• Proof that you do not carry any sexually transmitted or other dangerous diseases like HIV/AIDS. When I did this it required urine, blood from vein, claret from fingertip, flourographs, an inspection of your body for needle punctures and a psychological bank check which I was shockingly able to laissez passer. The military machine psychological test is different, and that 1 I failed hardcore.
  
• Proof that you have enough money to live off of, which pretty much means that they want proof that your spouse has a job, because until you lot become permits to live in Russia, you are not allowed to piece of work in Russian federation. What a lovely Take hold of 22!
  
• And by far the hardest thing… the awarding.

And best of all no one will instruct or help you practise this, y'all are totally on your own to navigate this mysterious bureaucratic journeying, which needs to be done to the tolerance of a nanometer.

You lot will lose weeks worth of piece of work days and endless thousands of rubles

Does the above list sound like a lot to you? Well it should considering it takes a ton of time, y'all volition lose a large amount of money and weeks of your life every time you lot accept to go through this process when your residency permit runs out. For those in Moscow the immigration middle 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 1-way but for the clearing service workers to see that you put a comma in the wrong place, rip upward your documents and ship you back habitation.

Going to the migration service basically requires an unabridged work day of your life, and it is going to take a lot of work days to go this thing done.

That damn application volition destroy your soul

Different say the European union, Russian federation takes its borders and immigration very brutally seriously. They are not playing effectually. The migration service volition care for y'all like a new recruit trying to join the Navy Seals - they will put you through hell to weed out the weak.

Every certificate you submit must be submitted exactly the way the authorities workers want information technology, and if worker A told you to write something 1 way, there is a good adventure worker B will tell you to write information technology another way, and if worker C tells you to do information technology a third style - that is your problem!

One time I got caught in a cycle of having to change comma positions, so 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 woman at the window was surprised to see me for the quaternary (fifth?) time. When I gave her all the same another application I showed her that I had a chiliad ruble bill with me. Since copies so only cost x rubles I had plenty of ammo left in the magazine. Showing her the bill I said in a grim tone  "I've got all solar day to make changes", to which she scoffed and accepted my documents not even looking to meet if I had fabricated the concluding round of changes.

In short, all applications MUST BE FLAWLESS or they will exist rejected. One spelling or punctuation error and information technology goes in the garbage. You lot will begin to react to the Russian words for awarding - ankyeta (анкета) and zayavleniye (заявление) - like a Vietnam war veteran when he hears a sudden loud popping noise.

I accept zip regrets

I honey my life in Russia and take no regrets, only immigrating was a nightmare. Maybe, there is a method to this madness, considering whatever person from outside the sometime USSR tin can only move to Russia if they really WANT to be here. And perhaps that is the fashion it should be.

Good luck future immigrants, you'll demand it.

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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 you will see him as the host of many of our YouTube videos equally he travels the land to show you lot what Russian federation is really similar. Tim has two Russian children of his own.

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